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We call you who goes down with the sun into darkness / Yet arises in light

Bizarre jumble of stuff #1

Watch out - End of Time SPOILERS in comments!

jvowles wrote a gorgeous thank you to the Doctor Who cast and crew.

By complete contrast, I somehow stumbled across m_wesley's 2007 giggle-inducing review of the The Pit.

Pakistan's hijra will now have a legally defined gender of their own.

A remarkable podcast about William Cooper, the Aboriginal activist who spoke out after Kristallnacht and has been commemorated at the Martyr's Forest memorial.

An old favourite quote of mine:

"Some physiologists will have it that the stomach is a mill; others, that it is a fermenting vat; others again that it is a stew-pan; but in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat, nor a stew-pan - but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach."
- William Hunter, quoted in A Treatise on Diet (1824)

Bizarre Jumble #2

Superboy Comics. "Clearly, no two days in Smallville are alike."

One day I want to go to Resolute.

Much of the classic September 2001 The Onion - Attack on America issue has been preserved at the Wayback Machine. "Hugging Up 76,000 Percent". (I do wish the images had also survived, though!)

Public toilet finder for the US.

National Public Toilet Map for Australia.

Reality matches Dreaming story: traditional Aboriginal knowledge leads scientists to meteorite crater. How cool is that?!