December 2009
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We all had a great time at my sister’s, they made home made buffet and we made fools of ourselves on the Wii good times!
New Super Mario Bros Wii is absolutely hilarious when played with 4 people, some slightly drunk, shouting and screaming with laughter!
The house is full of fun, games and laughter. Merry Christmas everyone! Can’t wait for DOCTOR WHO :)
The kids tucked in bed. Oliver texting me from his new mobile phone. One more sleep til Christmas!
This is sick: ‘Church recruiting drive targets two-year-olds’ http://bit.ly/5FfOhG they are going after your children! Run!
Was so relieved to have a good backup this week! Free backup tool win/mac (referral, we both get more space) http://tinyurl.com/y9en8pq
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Caring for Your Introvert
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The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. Still, we endure stoically, because the etiquette books—written, no doubt, by extroverts—regard declining to banter as rude and gaps in conversation as awkward.
Ha! This...
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Reminder: Backup your data!
Last week something terrible happened; my computer refused to start up. Rescue disks reported that the hard drive had failed.
This can happen to any computer at any time; it is the one thing Macs are not safer from than PCs. Luckily it is also something that Mac OS X has a built-in mechanism to avoid, as long as you do a few easy steps to turn it on.
I’m talking about Time Machine, the...
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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates... →
“According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.”
Stem cell research gets a booster shot →
After nearly a decade of delays and politics, stem cell research is about to get rolling in a major way. One of the most promising concepts in medicine - that healthy cells can be grown to replace…
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“Winter Solstice Greetings!
For as long as civilisation has existed, humanity...”
– The Triangle Freethought Society
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Lily Allen (12)
Snow Patrol (7)
Alanis Morissette (6)
The Hoosiers (6)
Keane (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Stars are not important. There is nothing interesting about stars. Street lamps...”
– Terry Pratchett
(via the video here)
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A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB
this didn’t sound quite right to me (given that the haploid genome has ~3.1 billion base pairs in it, and that each sperm should contain exactly one haploid genome). and upon further research, each...
Source of last tweet (and some awesome geek sex jokes): http://bit.ly/57k39s
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB
I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009
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The problem with being your own boss is if you take a Snow Day it’s your problem. In town but picking up emails from my phone. Shopping!
Please send a pic of the snow at your home/workplace to @simonbowen as he is building a nice collection! Here is mine http://bit.ly/5DITIi
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Snow sliding off the roof makes scary sounds, giving me the heebeegeebies.
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Public Service Announcement
When you are emailing someone image files, you do not need to send them inside a Word document.
Yours, Shaun
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“Deaths in the Bible.
God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah’s...”
– Anonymous
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“Most serious news stories are peppered with information that is laughably false,...”
– Chuck Klosterman
Just watched the first episode of Glee, OMG I love it! But sky+ missed the end off and now I have to wait until January to see the rest nooo
Many thanks to @msmac who has fixed my Glee dilemma!
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Newton Faulkner (41)
Keane (24)
Lady GaGa (22)
KT Tunstall (16)
Kelly Clarkson (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
It’s snowing!
Just half of Britons call themselves Christian... →
Thanks to less childhood indoctrination, and better education, the number of religious people in Britain is drastically falling.
“At the same time, the proportion of Britons who say they have “no religion” has increased from 31 per cent to 43 per cent.”
An ongoing trend which will one day reach the inevitable conclusion. Hooray for Science!
Elliot and Oliver’s school play tonight was great, an excellent performance from everybody!
Catholic Church ‘scared Hollywood into dumping His Dark Materials’: http://tinyurl.com/y89pw34 (via @NatSecSoc) very sad news!! :(
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"Baby-faced" people live longer →
Shared by Shaun Yeah but you have to put up with being ID’d at pubs all your long life :)
People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to an old age than those who look more than…
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Where Does My Money Go? →
The Where Does My Money Go website has combined government spending figures with visualisation tools to show how the cash is divided.
This is fantastic, exactly the kind of transparency we need from the government, and exactly the kind of thing the internet should be used for.
Had a great time at Andrew’s Xmas work do!
Minuscule primate caught on film →
The tiny spectral tarsier, one of the shortest and most primitive primates in the world, is caught on camera hunting at night in the jungle of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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The Grinch: It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags!
Narrator: Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
The Grinch: Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...
Narrator: He thought
The Grinch: ...means a little bit more.
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Stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV,... →
“This approach could be used to combat a variety of chronic viral diseases,” said Zack, who is also a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. “It’s like a genetic vaccine.”
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“Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is...”
– Dr. Arroway in Carl Sagan’s Contact