June 2009
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“I love looking in other people’s baskets at the supermarket checkout and...”
– Rob, Rambling:  
Jun 29th
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“An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,...”
– James Thompson. The Seasons. Spring. Line 1158.
Jun 28th
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“And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it. I won’t fear love. And if I...”
– Sarah McLachlan
Jun 22nd
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The fastest guys out there →
A day in the life of an SR-71 crew: It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day’s work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the...
Jun 22nd
“This above all: To thine own WORLD be true.”
– prot
Jun 21st
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ListenChina Forbes (She of Pink Martini fame) —...
Jun 19th
Jun 19th
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“When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Jun 19th
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ListenAmy MacDonald — Run
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“For a while there, nine of the top ten links on Twitter were about the...”
– Clay Shirky: How Twitter can make history | TED@State
Jun 18th
The most subtle of the seven deadly sins →
The ever insightful John D. Cook provides commentary on the origins of sloth. Six of the seven deadly sins are easy to define, but one is more subtle. The seven deadly sins are lust gluttony greed sloth wrath envy pride. Sloth is the subtle one.
Jun 17th
Jun 17th
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“Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find. For when the Gods created Man they...”
– The Epic of Gilgamesh, quoted in the fantastic BBC drama Occupation.
Jun 16th
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“You are so young, so before all beginning, I want to beg you, as much as I can,...”
– Rainier Maria Rilke
Jun 13th
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Jun 10th
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Jun 10th
Jun 10th
Upper second class honours
Now the real work can begin. I can’t wait to move to Nottingham in Sept/Nov and start my PhD at the EPSRC DTC in Regenerative Medicine.
Jun 9th
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Go, go!
The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Gordon Brown, will you please go now! Daniel Hannan MEP, paraphrasing Dr. Seuss.
Jun 7th
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“It’s like the closing scenes in Terminator: However clearly you blow the...”
– Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan on the Brown government.
Jun 7th
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“They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they...”
– Welcome to Your Quarterlife Crisis, Eye Weekly
Jun 7th
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ListenEverybody’s talkin’ — Megan...
Jun 7th
isgordonbrownstillprimeminister.com →
Yes (for the moment)
Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight →
A wonderful programme on BBC Four. Catch it on iPlayer whilst you can. Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author. The poem has got just about everything - it is an action-packed adventure, a ghost story, a steamy romance, a morality tale and the world’s first...
Jun 5th
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Jun 5th
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“You know what? Maybe not so much for you with the talking.”
– Amy Gardner. The West Wing. H-Con 147.
Jun 4th
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“As it stands, every single white person on earth either owns, has owned, or is...”
– #126 Vespa Scooters « Stuff White People Like (via 12minds)
Jun 2nd
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Jun 2nd
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“Imagine I am standing in a large wooden barn with an enormous machine gun. I...”
– Ben Goldacre — Bad Science
Jun 2nd
ListenI’m a Fool to Want You — Billie...
Jun 1st
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May 2009
57 posts
May 31st
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“I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I...”
– Song of Solomon 3:2 (KJV)
May 31st
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I had not thought death had undone so many
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. T.S. Eliot — The Waste Land
May 31st
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Once I loved
Once I loved And I gave so much love to this love It was the world to me Once I cried at the thought I was foolish and proud And let you say goodbye Then one day from my infinite sadness You came and brought me love again Now I know, that no matter, whatever befalls I’ll never let you go I will hold you close, night and day Because love is the sadest thing...
May 31st