Way back when…

Another one for the folk music collection. The singer is Luke Kelly, one of the real giants of Irish folk music. The voice is unmistakable. Luke is also notable for being one of the only people ever to have a ginger afro. Hit the play button, do something else and leave [...]

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Normal service Will soon be resumed

Sport doesn’t rear its head very often in this blog, least of all American sports, none of which I can watch apart from baseball. But I wouldn’t be complete without nailing my colours to the mast before the Red Sox start ‘whupping ass’ (as those cross-Atlantic types are fond of saying) this weekend.

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The ‘thin veneer of civilisation’.

I’m sure a lot of people are familiar with this phrase. The idea that civilisation is just a thin layer on the surface and we are all beasts underneath that. Well, after a hectic trip to the shops where I saw nature red in tooth and claw as people fought their way through the shops, [...]

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Latest Procrastination Device

My latest tool for avoiding all the things I should be doing is http://www.conquerclub.com/ . It’s sort of based on the old board game Risk. It’s a way of pretending to be Napoleon or Alexander without as much bloodshed
I really should be writing, but it’s too nice and sunny outside for me to [...]

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Karl Linnaeus is 300

The man who laid the foundations for nearly everything we know about biology today is 300 this year.
http://www.linnaeus2007.se/

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Shrink, you can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant

Anyone know anybody in a similar situation? I invite you all to join the
Alice’s Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement!
‘And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I’m
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in [...]

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Irrepressible!

http://irrepressible.info/

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Lots of New stuff

I think it's going to take me a while to get used to the features here. I'm sure I'll never use some of them much anyway! The main thing I'll probably use this for is dumping writings etc.

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OK Then!

Let’s see what all this is about, so!

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