1. You've lived in a variety of places including Bath, Soton and Edinburgh. Where would you most like to raise your family and grow old?
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This one is quite familiar - I did a variant some time ago:

Grab your nearest book, go the 123rd page, find the fifth sentence and type that and the two sentences after it.

The book is Joe Sacco's graphic novel Palestine; I'm equating a text box with a sentence and assuming that the order is strictly top-to-bottom and left-to-right (it would be ( Read more... )

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Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
Events

• 1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph ( Read more... )

You know what to do by now

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As seen and responded to on jorune and mhw:

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, (even if we don't speak often) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me. It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be ( Read more... )

List your six current favorite songs and then pick six people who have to do the same.

Always going to be a bit tricky. These are my six favourite songs as of lunchtime today. The list will have changed by the end of lunchtime.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach, C-minor Fugue from Book One of the Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV847). The Bach that I'm most likely to ( Read more... )

The Triumph of International Socialism

It'll have its day again, I hope. We've not really seen true international socialism thus far, admittedly. Some of the aspirations of the UN come close, but it has been hampered by a lack of control over economic policy and the need to kowtow to certain national interests in order to get them playing at all, ( Read more... )

Posted because lemmingry seems the fashion of the moment.
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