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10 minutes to midnight
A few words from Darwin, born 200 years ago today ( Read more... ) -
...by the way
...if anyone has £29.50 they don't mind spending, they can come to see A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory with me, Michael, Matt & Anna on Saturday at 8pm.
Mish took it! -
Ooooooooooooh
Something claiming to be the pilot script for A Game of Thrones is available to download for one week only.
I've had a quick read, and am not 100% convinced that it's real. Seems rather too similar to the books, and has a lot of (what seems to be) extraneous detail in the stage directions. Also, there's a lot of people saying "fuck" and gratuitous ( Read more... ) -
Paradise lost
Oh well, the tube is working again. Damn those fiendishly efficient TfL devils.
This is a lovely article.
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Follow-up
I've read a little bit more about that "how many people believe in evolution" poll.
A key sentence from the Telegraph article:
"The findings - to be published tomorrow in a report by Theos, a theology think-tank - follow a row over the place of creationism in education. "
The fact that these results are published by a theology think tank made me ( Read more... ) -
Sigh
I wonder if this is how it felt when Roman civilisation gradually sank into decadence:
Half of Britons do not believe in evolution.
I would be interested to know what the 30% who believe in neither evolution, creationism nor intelligent design said. Probably "don't know". Whilst this level of confusion over something as fundamental to science as ( Read more... ) -
EMERGENCY
JOSIE LONG IS ON JUST A MINUTE!!!!!!!
...and if you watch it on the iPlayer, you get a little whirly circular white thing going around in Nicholas Parson's gaping mouth, like he's gargling semen. Hypnotic.
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O happy the blossom that blooms on the lea, likewise the opossum that sits in the tre
I just received an email ( Read more... ) -
And also...
In the three weeks between Monday 30th March and Friday 17th April, I have no work booked. I don't much fancy sitting around pretending to work for three weeks, so I think I'll take at least some of the time off ( Read more... ) -
If only William Caxton were alive today
I've decided to make a "To Read" list for 2009.
Comics
I haven't read *that* many comics, but it's an art form I appreciate, and here are a few I'd like to read
Some of The Spirit, by Will Eisner. The recent film has been poorly reviewed and, by all accounts, it's not really of the same cloth as the original, instead coming across as a poor man's Sin ( Read more... )