January 2010
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“Simon, I don’t like finding out about people employed by this government...”
– Malcolm Tucker
Going to try to watch seasons 1-5 of lost before season 6 is released. Currently on Season 1 episode 5.
Slowly downloading the Apple keynote. Very very slowly… It’s been downloading for over 2 hours now.
Tweet-o-Meter (not a Wallace and Gromit invention) →
“Don’t be evil”
– Google
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AFYM
Spent today playing the saxophone from dawn till dusk (which admittedly sounds less impressive in the winter given how quickly dusk arrives). There’s a festival named the Abertawe Festival for Young Musicians which I took part in, and in return got a very sore lip. But despite the lip thrashing nature of the day it was very fun, especially the scarily good Irish Adjudicator named Gerard...
“The best thing about the titanic is that there could never be a sequel”
– Hugh Dennis
“lighting never strikes twice” doesn’t really have the same ring to it and “lightning never strikes twice”.
iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad. What the similarity? (other than the prefix “i”) None of them support Flash.
Damn it, they’re naming it the iPad instead of iSlate. Why Steve Jobs, why?
“It’s ok Pluto, I’m not a planet either”
– Yet another T-shirt quote. (thought I’d go for three in a row)
“May the mass times acceleration be with you”
– Another T-shirt
“Communists have no class”
– T-shirt
Three boys on my bus tried to answer some...
Q: What is the most northern state of the USA?
A: Seattle!
Q: What is the first letter of the Greek alphabet?
A: A.
Q: um... No it's alpha.
Q: What's the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
A: Zalpha?
Q: What is a jiffy a unit of?
A: Oh,oh... I know this. Peanut-butter.
Q: Who is the science officer on board the USS Enterprise in Star Trek?
*blank faces*
Q: The one with pointy ears.
A: Stephen Hawking?
Thanks to Rhys, Sam and Cellan for making today's Monday bus journey much less dull than they usually are.
(To be fare to them they did get a huge number correct that haven't been included here by the way)
Reblog if you've always wanted to start a reblog...
ilfautsouffrir:
(via tibibyte)
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“Temperatures across the land plummeted to Hollyoaks IQ level”
– Charlie Brooker on Newswipe
“Friends lie for each other not to each other”
– Morgan from Chuck (S02E07)
About to watch Nerdstock on BBC four.
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Very long Wired article on the new socialism (aka... →
RT @ProfBrianCox: RT @JonnieHaley ‘Nerdstock’ is on BBC4 at 9.45 tomorrow. Featuring such luminaries as @RichardDawkins @robinince @Prof …
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Forgot to mention
Most of you reading this will probably already know, but for the ones who don’t the GCSE module 2 science exams are over, and have been for two days. What most of you reading might not know is the on Monday morning, about 3 hours before the chemistry exam, I woke up with a muscle spasm in the back of my neck.
That normally wouldn’t be a problem because after a couple of days of...
“Ah, gravity - thou art a heartless bitch.”
– Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
The tumblr-twitter-facebook correlation
twoplustwoisfive:
jonathanroberts:
If this works correctly this message will be posted on tumblr. Some software in the tumblr server will then automatically condense this to a 140 character twitter update. The Facebook server will pick up that update via the twitter app and post this message on tumblr, Twitter and Facebook one after the other, hopefully.
Meaning all future posts made on...
The tumblr-twitter-facebook correlation
If this works correctly this message will be posted on tumblr. Some software in the tumblr server will then automatically condense this to a 140 character twitter update. The Facebook server will pick up that update via the twitter app and post this message on tumblr, Twitter and Facebook one after the other, hopefully.
Meaning all future posts made on tumblr will be posted on tumblr, twitter and...
Dependance - justification for murder?
notanotherrant:
jonathanroberts:
notanotherrant:
vickysolomon:
Full text here:
Apparently I can’t continue…
So..But with the conjoined twin argument either of them could survive if you kill the other, but in abortion if you kill the mother, the baby would not survive but if you abort the baby the mother would still survive.
It depends how you kill them, and where they are...
Proud to announce that Pope Benedict XVI was the winner of our annual Bad Faith Award: http://bit.ly/6napHh (via @NewHumanist)
The more tedious biology revision notes I write the more paragraphs I end with etc.
RT @WiredUK: Current office debate: How we verify that an ex-CIA spook is all he claims. Fact-checking has its limits if he’s double-tre …
Biology books big
skatenotwar:
jonathanroberts:
Become boredend by biology because brain…
Ok I can’t think of anything else begining with b… Oh wait.
Become bordend by biology because brain begining bursting because boffin biology books big.
Big belligerent biology books beating brain badly bitch.
Brutish beating better benefit bipedal being’s brain.
Biology books big
Become boredend by biology because brain…
Ok I can’t think of anything else begining with b… Oh wait.
Become bordend by biology because brain begining bursting because boffin biology books big.
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Roberts wrote the Lion King… not this Jonathan Roberts, the other one. http://tinyurl.com/yhu7ltt
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The CEO of Sony was apparently born in Cardiff. →
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“In the brain, romantic love shows similarities to going mildly insane or...”
– From the New Scientist website, the scary thing is that this was written with the utmost sincerity. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9981-instant-expert-love.html)
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Manchester’s completely creaming St Andrews. #universitychallenge
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Dependance - justification for murder? (that's...
notanotherrant:
vickysolomon:
notanotherrant:
Public consensus tells us that a foetus/embryo/unborn child is “part of a woman’s body”.
But public consensus saddens me when its scientific heresy results in the decimation of millions of human beings.
I’ve blogged about the genetic argument against this misunderstanding before, to save time here it is:
“Science tells us now, that after...
I’m finding it exceedingly difficult to get the right milk to rice krispies ratio.
Finally the weekend, so tired out after the half a day I was in school for this week.