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Les Termites
France’s ‘Crime of the Century’In a bank robbery fit for a Hollywood film, a gang of thieves have dug their way into a Parisian bank, clearing out almost 200 private safes.
Millions of pounds in cash and jewellery was taken after the robbers dug a tunnel through the cellar of a neighbouring building to the Credit Lyonnais.
The heist has been ( Read more... ) -
Aaron Rodgers
I think it's official: I've got a crush on him. Steve says he's got a pornstar beard. I just like to watch him play.
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Virginia Woolf
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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zombie movie "tips"
from a blog where a person is whiny
-Zombies Did Not Represent a Threat
Fine, they could bite you. Fine, they could kill you. But the protagonists felt no immediate fear, or dread, from the zombies. They were relatively easily avoided, and were not the constant threat that the computer brain was, which had the legitimate goal of trying to wipe out ( Read more... ) -
the zombie apocalypse
Well, apparently that new Paranormal Activity was about demonic possession, which I believe can only happen to you if you believe in that sort of crap. And Rec would have been great if it had been about an actual virus and not some Catholic superstition.
Just some very random stuff on zombies
Toxoplasma Gondii:
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(Untitled)
Dr Iyad Sarraj has worked for 30 years as a psychiatrist in Gaza and carried out numerous studies.
He says children who have seen their fathers disempowered often adopt other figures or power and authority - ultimately the militant fighter or "martyr".
Thus, he says, the generation that saw their fathers beaten by Israeli troops during the stone- ( Read more... ) -
The Peter Pan myth
At the age of twenty-six or so, having noticed that he was obviously not a particle more grown-up or less reckless than he had been at thirteen, he had been greatly relieved to come across a newspaper article by some fashionable psychologist saying that adolescence among human males could be a drawn-out process, lasting in some respects and cases ( Read more... )
