January 2009
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Drinking to Success - Forbes.com →
Now to spread this around until we get free beer day alongside free donut and bagel day.
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The perfect gift
Sometimes, you get the perfect gift. The gift that my wife bought me for Christmas finally arrived today, and it is every bit as awesome as she promised that it would be. Presents are kept as great secrets in this house, and when it didn’t arrive for Christmas, she was very upset, and insisted that there was no way that ‘they’ could possibly send another. Also, she let slip that...
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WatchA trailer for Black Dynamite, courtesy of Boing Boing. It took me until half-way through the trailer to realise that this isn’t a classic blaxploitation movie that I hadn’t heard of, but is a new movie coming soon. And it looks fantastic in glorious anamorphic duovision!
Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret - Boing Boing
The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are being bandied around rather a lot at the moment, but it’s stories like this that actually deserve those epithets.
This is a fantastic example of how democratic politics is supposed to work: The people spoke, their MPs heard, and...
The Real Thing
I always love the Schroeder strips from Peanuts as they had a wonderfully surreal air. When I read them I felt sometimes that I was missing part of the dialogue between the characters. Now, it seems, I have an answer:
Schroeder Played Real Beethoven in Charles M. Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ Strip - NYTimes.com
courtesy of Neil Gaiman
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Today I died again
I died today. Those damn spiders with their poison were just too much for me.
Oh, I should probably explain that I’m talking about DnD. And right about now, a whole bunch of you who are not interested can tune out and come back when I write something about something else. Of course, if you do that, I’ll know that you only spent 20 seconds reading this and I’ll be able to track...
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The Sky In Motion →
Beautiful and stunning videos put together from HD captures of the sky at night. By far my favourite is this one, but there are many more of these in their playlist.
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San Francisco: The Settling-In Days
stripy-riding-hood:
So I guess the question is: What have you done to make yourself a better person for yourself and not for others? What have you done that makes you feel that slightly more comfortable in your own skin and what will you do now onwards?
I’ve reprioritised my life. Work is still important, and I adore my chosen career and will never stop striving to improve myself in that...