Tom's Hardware's Top 40 Steampunk PC mods

Knowing which eurozone country is or isn't which other eurozone country seems to be quite important.

1,200 years ago the planet was hit by an intense burst of high-energy radiation, and nobody knows what caused it.

25 Things a Professional Woman Should Never Wear

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Haven’t had one for ages. I’m getting sloppy.

Top 10 fast cars that can carry two lurchers.

School attempts to ban playground slang. Good luck with that one.

Six Real Planets that put Science Fiction to Shame

The ex-NFL player with an Oscar nomination. (And since that article was written, he won the award.)

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I thought I’d do something a little different with this Phligm Phlagm post. Instead of using links grabbed from Twitter or andrewducker, I thought I’d put up links to some of my own favourite LiveJournal posts. And by that I mean ones that I wrote.
Sort of a ‘Phlegmatic Greatest Hits’, or at least a ‘The Best of Philmo Phlegm’ compilation.

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Real live dragon!

Britain's oldest footballer. He's 72!

What Nicolas Sarkozy and Christian Noyer seemingly don't understand about ratings agencies

The 'real' market, the 'expectations' market and why 'maximising shareholder value' is the "dumbest idea in the world".

More confused coverage of tax issues from the mainstream media (this time the ( Read more... )

This year's Town Hall Rich List - not good reading for Cornish council tax payers

Enough with the bad web design, here's a good one

A Tolkien virgin's view of the LotR films

"How Dungeons & Dragons changed my life"

Victorian dress made from 1,000 beetle wings

Wetsuit for sale, one careful owner, never pissed in it, £9,300 and rising

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Physicist Freeman 'inventor of the Dyson Sphere' Dyson versus The Independent

Live action version of the Simpsons opening title sequence

Why don't working class people support the Green Party?

How American poverty is different from European 'poverty'

The Battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back - in LEGO

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Questions meme

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
I like my new coat.

2. How much cash do you have on you?
£35.00

3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
Floor

4. Favorite planet?
Athfuashhok'k (or however it was spelt)

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I still have two weeks left of my Christmas holiday. I haven't posted much in a while, so here are some Christmas thoughts and events.

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