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“It used to be easy to recognise politicians, via the ham sandwich system.”
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Random interesting stuff that I’ve found.
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Dailies for Sunday 26 October 2008
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John Hodgman is a very entertaining man.
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Dailies for Saturday 25 October 2008
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This seems to be the place to buy it online.
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Daily links for 2008-10-06
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“Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain.” Time to replace our ministers, methinks.
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Iceland has always been on my list of “places to visit”. Wonder what’s going to happen to it now.
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“Slight poverty is what drives music forward. It only works if you’re in the red. You’ve never felt so alive as when you’ve just maxed out your credit card to get your band on a cross channel ferry for a one-off gig in Antwerp. Seriously. You know, it’s like biographies of bands. The most interesting bit is the first bit, you know, the horror, where they’re playing shit venues to small crowds, and the pointlessness of it all is on the verge of driving them insane. When they get to the bit where they turn up at a plush venue and there’s a dozen Cantaloupes and a melon baller in the dressing room, well, that’s when I stop reading.”
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Daily links for 2008-09-15
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These are tears of suppressed laughter. Somewhat reminiscent of this.
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Daily links for 2008-09-10
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Found via this week’s Post Of The Week nominations. A single mother’s inner response to the words “I want to live with daddy”.
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Daily links for 2008-09-05
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“A stunt in which £20,000 of petrol was given away in north London to promote a computer game has been criticised as “irresponsible and dangerous”. Seems to have worked though.
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Daily links for 2008-08-19
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“If I would ask you in response to the same question how fast the American forces can leave Iraq, for example, the answer would be as soon as we have guarantees for peace and security there,” Kosachev said. “The same answer would be toward this situation.” – Heheheheh.
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Dailies for 2008-08-13
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“Sadly, one in three heart attack victims die before they reach hospital. Many people don’t recognise the signs and fail to take the steps that may have saved their life or the life of a loved one.”