Archives – 2005 – October – 13  

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 11
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So God is no good, mainly cos our authors don’t believe in God and this is THEIR BALL. Meaning, the second option. ALIEUMS.
This chapter wonders exactly why Aliums would build the moon and why would they do it so long ago. Yet again this bizarr[…]

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“i’m not a hobbit, i just have TINY BONES”
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update on the OTHER Best. Science. Story. Ever…
Photograph © Peter Brown/Nature[…]

POLSKA!!! POLSKA!!!
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I was not really watching the football last night in the Ship and Shovell, I was there to spend time with a friend on his birthday. Nevertheless this tiny pub under Charing Cross Station, with its one tiny TV, seemed a large central gathering point f[…]

Day 50: Australia
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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“And this is for XTC.” I said, throwing a saucepan at Branson.
“And this is for Phil Collins,” a saucer.
“And this is for Genesis,” the cup, full of tea.
Branson was skipping and a bouncing on the surf where he had[…]

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“it’s his subversion that’s interesting”
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i like banksy’s work a lot, for good sentimental-personal reasons — there’s a lot of it dotting the grim reaches round old street, which i often used to have to pass through on the way to work, before i knew who he was, and at the […]

Best. Science. Story. Ever.
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Here
“It’s great to be able to help grant Paul’s wish. Had he not had access to the computer he would not have been able to tell us what he wanted to do. Moments like this make it all worthwhile.”
This might provide some conte[…]

An Opportunity Missed
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The Head of Steam is a strange old place. Part of the concrete Euston complex built controversially in the 60s (John Betjeman famously campaigned against the demolition of the previous, Victorian, Euston station, and particularly its large Doric arch[…]

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