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23 Jan 2004

I know, I know, recycled MetaFilter, waste of time, etc etc. But 'Remarks by the President to the Press Pool' cracked me up, so there.

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A mosquito, as interviewed at Glasgow University

Google Maps' walking route from Glasgow to London.

Iron. Taken at Blist’s Hill open-air museum.

A difficult-to-read graph of video project sizes on my media drives, the upshot of which is that I don't have much drive space left.

A sign on the wall of Liverpool Physics Department

Brian Cox pulling a face at BA President and former Chief Science Advisor Sir David King, on Newsnight.

A proper old-fashioned clock for Final Cut. Oh, happy day.

Eric Laithwaite during the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, levitating an aluminium shell sphere.

An email, the other day

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