Bach’s lituus used for first time in 300 years
2nd June 2009
I think I saw these in The Court Jester.
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Back to The Good Life: thousands take up chicken ownership
30th May 2009
Guess they don’t have zoning regulations and Home Owners’ Associations in Britain.
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‘See through’ swimsuit to eliminate tan lines
30th May 2009
Yeah, that’s always been on the top of my Worry List.
Ladies, any man who is in a position to see that you’ve got tan lines is going to have higher priorities. Trust me on this one.
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Blondes don’t have more fun, survey finds
29th May 2009
All of my illusions, shattered.
You’ve got to wonder about a newspaper that doesn’t even know what Paris Hilton looks like, though.
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Divers discover wreck of ship sent to help Bonnie Prince Charlie
26th May 2009
Guess it didn’t work.
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Businessman hunts down thief in his helicopter
24th May 2009
Hah.
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Wallaby mother and baby spotted in Cornwall
22nd May 2009
A male wallaby which escaped from a petting zoo two years ago found this female mate in the wild – which has now been spotted in a garden carrying their baby.
I wasn’t aware that there were so many wallabies wandering around in Cornwall. I suspect that Prince Charles has something to do with it.
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Cruise passengers fought off pirates with deckchairs
22nd May 2009
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Aussie whiz-kids can cram 1.6TB on a DVD-sized disc, go Outback tonight
21st May 2009
Gotta love Australians.
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Super-Recognizers Great At Facial Recognition
21st May 2009
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Louis XVI’s final testament discovered
20th May 2009
What’s French for “Oh, shit!”
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Goose photographed flying upside down
20th May 2009
Must be a re-incarnated stunt team flyer.
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Schoolgirl goalkeeper scores twice from her own penalty box
19th May 2009
I’m not sure exactly what they’re talking about here, but it sounds pretty impressive.
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Showering during the day helps productivity
18th May 2009
Well. There it is.
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Hyperion Unveils ‘Kernl’ Web Publishing Initiative
18th May 2009
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The Geek’s Search Engine?
18th May 2009
For sufficiently small values of “geek”.
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Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid
18th May 2009
Jeremy Clarkson is not impressed with the new Honda “Prius-killer”.
And the sound is worse. The Honda’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone else’s crying baby on an airliner. It’s worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open. Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.
The nickel for the battery has to come from somewhere. Canada, usually. It has to be shipped to Japan, not on a sailing boat, I presume. And then it must be converted, not in a tree house, into a battery, and then that battery must be transported, not on an ox cart, to the Insight production plant in Suzuka. And then the finished car has to be shipped, not by Thor Heyerdahl, to Britain, where it can be transported, not by wind, to the home of a man with a beard who thinks he’s doing the world a favour.
Why doesn’t he just buy a Range Rover, which is made from local components, just down the road? No, really — weird-beards buy locally produced meat and vegetables for eco-reasons. So why not apply the same logic to cars?
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High Blood Pressure Could Be Caused By A Common Virus, Study Suggests
17th May 2009
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When It Comes To Intelligence, Size Matters
17th May 2009
So when somebody calls you “fathead” it’s really a compliment.
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Diaries of swashbuckling hero who rescued Robinson Crusoe unearthed
16th May 2009
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Shoppers of the future will ‘pick’ fruit from supermarket shelves
16th May 2009
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Spira foam car enters Automotive X Prize, our hearts
15th May 2009
Just don’t have an argument with a large dog.
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New cuttlefish-inspired display tech can change color, eat your pet guppy
15th May 2009
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The Real-Time Local News
15th May 2009
An excellent replacement for the quasi-communist metropolitan newspapers.
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Winged submarine is Ferrari of the depths
14th May 2009
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Traditional sandwiches make comeback as wraps fall from favour
14th May 2009
Real food triumphs over SWPL fetishes.
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Switzerland Ranks No. 1 as Home for the Rich
14th May 2009
Taxes weren’t the only consideration, although they clearly were important. The index factors in 11 criteria to determine where to live large, including “economic and legal stability,” “legal considerations,” “education for children,” “proximity,” “culture/infrastructure,” “depth of financial services” and “employment and business opportunities.”
Not surprising. If I were rich, that’s where I’d live.
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Clearing a moat costs thousands of pounds
13th May 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Tongue sees what eyes can’t
13th May 2009
That’s great, but it still creeps me out.
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Centuries-old torture instruments for sale
12th May 2009
I’m pretty sure I saw a picture of Senator Byrd in there.
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Indian village with 250 sets of twins
12th May 2009
Have they checked with the Xerox people?
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Busting Healthcare Myths
11th May 2009
As in many areas of life, the problem is not what we know, but what we “know” that ain’t so.
Pipes knows whereof she speaks. She is a Canadian citizen (now living in California) and recounts her experiences under a single-payer system. She illustrates Canada’s cost-cutting measures that deny access to new drugs with a personal anecdote. Her uncle was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma five years ago. “If he’d lived in America, the miracle drug Rituxan might have saved him,” she writes. “But Rituxan wasn’t approved for use in Canada, and he lost his battle with cancer.”
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Crocodile stalks nudist beach in Australia
11th May 2009
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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Gardeners buy wallabies as lawnmowers
11th May 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Women only hear properly when gossiping or eavesdropping
9th May 2009
Can’t fault their priorities.
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Nuclear bomb tests help to identify fake whisky
8th May 2009
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How eating chocolate can help improve your maths
8th May 2009
So how come more women aren’t professional mathematicians?
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Court Rejects Online Terms Of Service That Reserve The Right To Change At Any Time
8th May 2009
Wouldn’t it be nice if this applied to credit card agreements?
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Robotic hand controlled by compressed air grasps the concept of delicacy
7th May 2009
Step by step … closer and closer ….
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DIY coilgun gives clever hobbyists the risk of permanent injury
7th May 2009
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Bumblebee uses high energy “brute force” to fly
7th May 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Female police officers told not to wear underwired bras on duty
7th May 2009
I wasn’t aware that it was a potential problem. Still, safety first.
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Scientists reveal face of the first European
4th May 2009
Not surprising that it looks like Barack Obama.
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Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by friend Gauguin with a sword
4th May 2009
Well, I suppose he had a good reason.
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Network Rail to replace wooden sleepers with recycled plastic
4th May 2009
It’s all gone be plastic by-em-by.
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Understanding motor neurone disease
4th May 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Micromuscle makes microrobots that can live inside you
1st May 2009
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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Green men cut in church stonework
1st May 2009
Yeah, it’s obscure, but it’s interesting. Cope.
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The World’s Weirdest Yacht
1st May 2009
I still want one.
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