Following on from yesterday’s Chomsky snippet, here is an article asking Can You Teach Your Kid To Have Taste? The premise is that a classical music reviewer has been dragging his ten-year-old son along to work and has begun wondering how that influences his son’s taste in music/art/literature. The kid likes Tolkien, Russell Crowe westerns [...]
A family who were bound for a week’s holiday in Lanzarote are back home after a check-in desk mix-up meant they caught a flight to Turkey instead. (..) Mr Coray said they had not realised their mistake because their boarding pass stated only Bodrum airport and not that it was in Turkey.
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On a vaguely [...]
Work: “Hi! How are you? Hope you’re feeling better. Just to let you know, we’re implementing some new anti-fraud measurements. So, HR needs to know where you were working between October 2006 and February 2007?”
Me: “Er, I was working for you guys..”
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A few completely unrelated and random links:
+ Is this cake scary or awesome? I [...]
Kamicha of Yarned makes me feel that I should
a) go through my entire wardrobe
b) reconsider my aversion to blandness neutrals
c) reconsider my decision to avoid bulky knitwear
d) reconsider my decision to avoid shapeless dresses
e) forget about my hypermobility and dig out my high-heeled shoes
f) re-invent myself as a sophisticated fashionista
but I think I’ll continue [...]
This is one of the funniest film reviews I have ever seen. I heart Mark Kermode. Stay tuned for his attempt at being Swedish.
No word on release date (of course), but there’s actual footage now: Diablo III is finally happening. Quick, are frogs falling from the sky?
Addendum: it feels weird adding this to a post on a computer game, but Danish author, Jacob Ejersbo has passed away.
I like everything to be clean, and gray is clean. Gray is between black and white, so it’s a noncolor, almost. I feel messy and unclean if I wear other colors. - Five New Yorkers Who Only Wear One Colour.
I bet you can find Copenhageners who only wear beige. Or navy.
Just sneaking this one in: the teaser trailer for Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. And if you are thinking Bzuh?! (which is admittedly very likely), here’s an explanation:
During the WGA strike ['Buffy' and 'Firefly' creator] Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. Each of the three episodes will be approximately ten [...]
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This is really nifty: The Timeline of Fictional And Fictional Future Events.
1609: A vampire known as the Master converts a young woman dying of syphilis to fellow vampire Darla. The conversion reportedly took place in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia which at the time only included Jamestown
1620: Norville “Shaggy” Rogers’ and Scooby-Doo’s ancestors, McBaggy [...]
Don’t you just love lists? I do.
+ Mattel has made The Birds Barbie. It’s brilliant. (thank you Darth Ken)
+ Wordle is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It even makes Spandau Ballet seem cool.
+ I have finally found a food item that I simply cannot abide.
The falooda we bought at today’s Glasgow Mela [...]
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