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Heard of the ‘Ghost Light’? Thanks to Playbill.com: ‘Theatrical folk are a superstitious lot. Wishing actors a broken leg (don’t ever tell them “good luck”), avoiding whistling backstage (it used to confuse the stagehands), and being careful not to say Mac. . .—I mean, “The Scottish Play” (it’s cursed, you know) are just a sampling [...]
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Today, oh venerable readers, I was sent the following news item: Japanese call on deities to discipline wayward PCs – Anti-virus software usually does the job, but if malicious code gets through then it can bring your PC to its knees. So a Japanese shrine’s resorted to a rather more unorthodox way of keeping viruses [...]
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I was going to just pop this into the miniblog… but it got me thinking beyond the subject it talks about: teaching evolution in modern times and changes made to the education system in Florida to cater for this. Besides, I have about three hours to kill whilst sitting here at Gatwick airport, and I [...]
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Ah, busy busy. Make sure you spare some time to check out the latest Tangled Bank over at Denialism Blog! First of all, the next Skeptics of Carlos will be hosted at the blog of Homologous Legs! If you’re unfamiliar with the Skeptics of Carlos Blog Carnival — here’s a link to the last round. [...]
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Okay, right, it’s the weekend — and I’m blogging. Bleah. Never mind, I’ve got a lot of work on the horizon and I’ll zip off and complete it instead of writing much more on all of this. But I have to pop up some links and tidy up my blogroll first! First — an mp3 [...]
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Read the first half of the second episode? Already caught up with the fun and frolics of the first episode in two parts? Now, let’s begin. As John Edward would say — ‘I’m going over here and I see someone who ate food, and drove a car…’ Yes, Australia’s Next Top want to be a [...]
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