December 2010
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Soon to embark on my last adventure of 2010
Let’s hope there are plenty more in 2011
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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“I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too,...”
– Rebecca Solnit, from the opening pages of Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
Dec 27th
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“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped...”
– Lewis Hyde
Dec 23rd
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“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped...”
– Lewis Hyde
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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The Writer at Work →
“… I need a break — I’ll go out for a walk …” —Tolstoy (as told by Tom Gauld)
Dec 14th
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“Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for...”
– Ryo Taniuchi, leader of a team of scientists in Tokyo who taught bacteria how to solve sodoku puzzles.
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Yet another giant reading list →
(Note to self, read more. Much, much more)
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“No one really knows if there is a bubble until after one pops. Nevertheless,...”
– Facebook derivatives!? I love/hate this idea in so many ways… A Silicon Bubble Shows Signs Of Reinflating (NYT)
Dec 4th
“As well as recounting the lavish lifestyle of the Kazakh elite, the cables...”
– Not everybody’s unhappy with the WikiLeak: PM happy with his mention
Dec 3rd
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“To listen to enough Radiolab is to see that scientists haven’t simply replaced...”
– “My gosh, who hasn’t experienced The ‘Radiolab’ Effect? It totally happened to me.” (Shanai) Ditto!
Dec 1st
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Dec 1st