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Sunday, February 27, 2011
 
Category: Trivia
I've often thought trivia competitions are soft general knowledge quizzes. Sometimes, though, we stumble on real/true/genuine pieces of trivia. Here is one from Jack Klugman's Wikipedia page:
In 1957, he appeared in the film 12 Angry Men as Juror #5 and is the last surviving actor who played a juror in that movie.
Love that!

Monday, February 21, 2011
 
Category: Creepiness
Am I alone in finding this appalling...
Canteen takes up online spy technology.
You have to wonder at the perceived extent of the nutrition issues amongst parents for this to be a cost effective program.

Sunday, February 20, 2011
 
Category: Offsets
Once the whole carbon offset thing is proven to be good, things could lead anywhere.

Friday, February 11, 2011
 
Category: Truth
Reality will always trump fiction when you're looking for something to laugh at:
Indiana Officials Fear Building Will Be Late-Night Punchline if Named After Ex-Mayor

Saturday, February 05, 2011
 
Category: Water
I've just been down at Lake Reserve in Coburg. There's a bit of water about.

 
Category: Music
Studio Multitracks
Tracks in Isolation

Just the guitar or backing vocals or whatever from many well known songs.

Thursday, February 03, 2011
 
Category: Howard
I suspect I am going to work my way through the clivejames.com site and read everything. Just after the Kevin '07 election he wrote this insightful piece. The language is probably a bit clever (I found I had to re-read several paragraphs) but what it has to say is quite prescient given the time it was written.

 
Category: Quotations
I was looking for the source of the gag about Queen Sālote's lunch and found this really nice article by Clive James titled Saying Famous Things.


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