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real actual proper sport art commemorates little-known kickabout
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we demand a PICTURE
UPDATE: ok now the story has a picture (which haha totally undermines the CLEVER YET KOMIKAL lead graf) so the story must be savoured for other reasons viz the quote from Daily Post art critic Philip “i don’t get it&#8[…]

“87. Name one coloring, drawing or printing mistake in the Tintin books”
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while googlin for obscure stuff connected to what mr g.galloway famously called mr c.hitchens recently, i discovered this VERY THOROUGH160-question tintin trivia quiz
plus also it has VERY HARD picture quizzes! viz a tintin flag quiz and a tintin SPL[…]

Day 42: East California: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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So there we were, not so much getting our kicks on Route 66, more getting a good kicking. The truck, with its mysterious driver kept buffeting out rear and I had no illusions that if he managed to draw level, he would be able to force us off of the r[…]

Onion Takes On Evangelical “Science”
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Creationism – take that:
EVANGELICAL SCIENTISTS REFUTE GRAVITY WITH NEW “INTELLIGENT FALLING” THEORY

“Closed-minded gravitists cannot find a way to make Einstein’s general relativity match up with the subatomic quantum […]

The Illusion Of Small Change
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(reposted from my l1v3j0urn@l)
I like comics in theory. I am very glad I am reading this Summer’s mainstream crop for free, though. It used to be that superhero comics were like summer blockbusters, i.e. Check out this FITE! No check out THIS O[…]

100 Reasons To Like Cricket
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As extolled by this ILx thread. In many ways it is symptomatic of a cricket thread that the first five posts are on a complete tangent about a doll. At time of writing it had made an impressive ninety, lets hope the thread makes its century. Worth it[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS: No. 82
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Jimmy Cliff – “Many Rivers To Cross”
A conversation I had about Many Rivers To Cross today.
Me: Have you got a copy of Many Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff.
Her: Yes. It’s great.
Me: You couldn’t play it down the phone to[…]

Crashing Bore
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Not really. Crash is probably the middle-brow hit of the summer. Entertaining, interesting, thought-provoking full of medium sized stars. The kind of ensemble piece that makes you feel good afterwards, and since it shares structure with Traffic, Shor[…]

Shift In Experimental Variable Does Not Change Result
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Often in science, there are baseline variables that come with the scenario that people do not consider changing. For example it is taken as read that the glassware used un test tubes is inert to the experiment going on and contributes nothing but con[…]

DAY 41: Route 66
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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Sitting in the back of the car while Crispian is driving is a little bit like stepping into a time warp. That and the gin made it feel like three months had passed, when actually it was only a day. Yes, Amarillo had been as depressing and as horrible[…]

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