On Saturday, I drank some beer.

I've seen some terrible graphs in my time, but this is just ridiculous.

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"Peckham is the land of the free. It’s like a blank canvas," said Hannah Barry, an enterprising 26-year-old
I suppose you could make a case for this being an unusual outbreak of honesty regarding urban colonisation, but I strongly suspect that she doesn't even realise what she's saying.

(Thanks to alexmacpherson for the link.)

Spotted in Dalston on Friday: a man wearing two pairs of pants, both visible over the (very low) waistband of his jeans.

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"The common people in Scotland, who are fed with oatmeal, are in general neither so strong, nor so handsome as the same rank of people in England who are fed with wheaten bread. They neither work so well, nor look so well; and as there is not the same difference between the people of fashion in the two countries, experience would seem to show that ( Read more... )

Nine year old writes iPhone app.

This is kind of depressing. 25 years ago, thousands of nine-year olds were writing stuff like this as a matter of course. Now, a single kid doing it merits a news story.

Brad Pitt, [...] is set to return to the works of Homer in a big-screen adaptation of The Odyssey, [...] in space.
I wonder who will voice No-No?

From the LA Times:

David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46 ( Read more... )

Is praxis just an fancy synonym for practice? Or is it a bit more complicated than that?