Just passed a very pleasant hour or so doing what passes for gardening at this point in time and this place in space: transplanting cacti. I bought six of the little things at Ikea about a year ago, and imperceptibly they’ve grown. Time for bigger pots. But here’s the weird part.

As soon as I had...

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"He wears make-up, like me, maybe a little bit less but he does. He wears heels, so sometimes, at least aesthetically we have more in common than he would think."

The Italian election is just so entertaining, and even if you don't have the stomach to sit through all the TV on the subject, [Reu...

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Handy blogging tip No. 381: Blocked? Check your stats!

Why on Earth was someone searching Yahoo for free animal privets?

And will this post now beat out the one result for “animal privets,” which seems to be a splog that I’m not going to bother linking to.

p.s. The searches for guinea pig...

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How odd, to find, on the very same day, at two of the blogs I visit whenever they have something to offer, this:

Oooooh, look, I can spin in really tiny circles, and I can glide backwards while grabbing my leg and sticking it in my ear, and I can gesticulate balletically with my graceful arms wh...

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“I’ve read these papers fairly carefully, looking for weak points ... but I can’t find any.”

See, now that’s how science works. An article by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times (I expect you’ll need to register; it is too fresh for Aaron’s Link Generator) describes a couple of recent papers...

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