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I'm trying to get my Twitter favourites under control. This is more a cataloguing system than a blog, but you're welcome to follow if there turns out to be stuff here that you like. I'm @timtfj on Twitter. My main blog is The Other Blog Wiithout a Name at wordpress.com. Feedjit Live Blog Stats

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Book review

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Some more accuratel than others, it has to be said. But it's still impressive that someone writing in 1900 predicted mobile phones and cameras able to instantly transmit their photos across the world.

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Brilliance. Among other things, Mark Twain wrote that the "rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction"

require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

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require that the author shall say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it.

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MONTBLANC SKELETONS-2 (photo by Montblanc Pen Lover on Flickr)

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Another side to the cartoonist Ronald Searle, best known for his illustrations for the Molesworth and St Trinian's books.

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Rupert Murdoch has joined Twitter. This was suggested as a suitable avatar picture.

(source: @OctoberJones on Twitpic)

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Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney - The Irish Times - Wed, Dec 21, 2011

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Belgian cartoon about the arrival of a Dutch astronaut on the International Space Station. (The Dutch have a reputation for taking caravans all over the place, I'm told.)

(source: @AnoekDG on Twitpic)

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The Higgs Boson is not the Higgs Boatswain. Neither are breast implants made from a hard brittle metallic-looking material. Continue reading →

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Another bookwheel (same post as before)

(via Redneck Repairs)

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Quite fascinating—expecially the ones where the avatar is like an altered version of the original person, rather than entirely different.

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Seriously, just put your phone away until afterwards.

(via @darraghdoyle on Twitpic)

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Sheer brilliance from The Onion.

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How bees in a hive interact somewhat similarly to neurons in a brain, enabling decisions to be taken.

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I didn't know there was a name for this. It's the theoretical maximim number of people for whom it's possible to know "who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person". Though I don't see how it can be a specific number, since it will surely vary from person to person.