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Month March 2007

In a rush on the Underground?

Ski down the escalators, save yourself literally seconds…

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Kids, don’t try [...]

Non sequitur

I’m in the middle of an exchange of emails with a “Microsoft EMEA Technical Support Clerk” (a tech support guy – of which more later), so here’s a Simpson’s video.

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Archer

Yesterday I toddled off on a jaunty saunter down to London (well, it would have been even jollier if Midland Mainline were able to display even the slightest hint of competence).

As always (just ‘cos it’s something I always do), I headed off to Waterstone’s Picadilly. And who should follow me through the front doors? None [...]

Ricky Gervais in Kenya

This was, without doubt, one of the very funniest bits of the Comic Relief telecast on Saturday. Quite how he manages to subvert absolutely everything about the charity is rather impressive…

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Mobile

Running alongside a Grauniad blog article is an advert for a new ITV drama, Mobile.

But Mobile isn’t on tonight. It’s on next week. Oops.

Solar Eclipse: NASA Style

On February 25th there was a transit of the Moon across the face of the Sun – a solar eclipse – but it could not be seen from Earth. This sight was visible only from the STEREO-B spacecraft in its orbit about the sun, trailing behind the Earth. The two STEREO spacecraft were launched last [...]

Unread books

Apparently, Teletext (for some reason) ran a survey recently about books that people don’t finish. Top of the fiction list cam DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Joyce’s Ulysses.

Ulysses I can well understand. I’ve never, ever met anyone who has actually read the whole thing thorugh (certainly no [...]

Social reading?

I love Last.fm. I love being able to track exactly what I’ve been listening to, when, over the last two years. I love finding other artists and albums that I should enjoy. And I love finding other people who like the same music as me.

I love reading. I read, easily, a book a week. Often [...]

University Challenge: Episode III – Revenge of the Quiz

According to the Radio Times, our quarter-final match against Edinburgh will be broadcast next Monday (12 March), 8pm, BBC2.

Be there, or be square.

Mind you, we’ve not heard from Granada or the BBC that it’s actually us playing that week… but I seem to remember us being the second quarter final, so it makes sense.

Harry Potter goes camping

Newsweek has a fun article about the effect Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will have on summer holiday camps: [via TLC]

Peter Kassen of Maine’s Hidden Valley Camp is issuing a gag order for his faster readers. “We as a community will be sworn to secrecy,” he says. “We want to make sure [...]