It's like life on Finchley Road all those years ago. You wait ages for the No. 13 bus to take you to Oxford Circus, and along come three in a row. A week ago I'm complaining sotto voce about never having been sand-bagged or meme-tagged, and now it's happened twice. No. 1 in time will take a little more thoughtful consideration. But No. 2, from the Blue Girl, shouldn't be too hard. Eight Random Facts About Myself.

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From xkcd -- one of my favorites. Of course, a true pedant would point out that thyme is generally considered a herb, rather than a spice ...

A picture of me wearing the present in question, a multifunctional tube of stretchy material

My thanks to Cassandra -- that's her sipping tea in the background -- for one of the neatest presents I've ever received; a Multifunktionstücher.

Phil Spector in the dock at his trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson

Don’t let this happen to anyone you love. No matter how good they may once have been.

Medicated to the gills, suffering from short man’s disease, thinning hair and a pathological need to be noticed, psychologically damaged from his father’s suicide, his mother’s coldness and his young son’...

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As if to prove the point, there is a little piece about fisheries (un)management on cnews, a Canadian site, accusing British Columbia’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans of [caving to political pressure]http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/06/26/4291752-sun.html and allowing over-fishing. O...

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