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Nicked off drunken_hedghog: the food meme! Bold it if you've tried it. (My answers may surprise you. I am older than I look.)

( Food, dubious food )

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Tetris has become a way for me to check the level of my cognitive deficit. After last night's rough sleep, not only can I not react quickly enough, I just get more and more bewildered - it all becomes a sort of blur.

Bric a Brac Who 'n Turchwad edition

Pix: movie posters for Classic Doctor Who serials

Fix: Five Stories Sam Won't Write And One He Did By Accident

Boox: recs: eighth doctor adventures (EDAs) (*basks* :)

Quiz: How many Dr Who episodes from each Doctor can you name in 5 minutes?

Oots: five year old fan yay

They're onto us: You Might Be a Fan If ...

Canadian interview with "the impossibly un-ugly John Barrowman... his teeth gleaming like the Taj Mahal, his shoulders rising out aircraft wings, his voice full of sneaky machismo."

Science!

Global warming deniers caught in fibs

Less sex as bugs enjoy the good life: "researchers believe the growth of agriculture is causing many insects to abandon sex in favour of cloning, reproducing asexually."

The science of ice cream headaches

From New Scientist: Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions

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Just squeaking in before the end of Australia's National Desexing Month with a list of the benefits of desexing - and on the same page, help for pet owners who could use low-cost desexing.

Stunned

The Black infant mortality rate in the United States rivals the Indigenous mortality rate in Australia.

What the fuck are you doing over there?!

Some quotations

"A key point is this: rules don't make people do anything; people use rules to coordinate action with others. In chess, for example, you can't win by smashing your opponent's king, throwing the board in the air, and shouting, 'Spassky!'"
- Michael Schwalbe, Rigging the Game: How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life

"Ne jamais interrompre votre ennemi quand il fait une erreur."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I ask if he has published anything lately. He says that his work is not, and never can be, for publication. Thought passes through my mind to the effect that this attitude might with advantage be adopted by many others."
- E.M. Delafield, Diary of a provincial lady

"Don't you love it when the fatigue poisons build to the point where you can actually hallucinate?"
- William Gibson, at Constantinople in Melbourne, 2 April 1994