A new do

Juanita Phillips' new hair on the news tonight.I'm yet to be fully convinced.

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My contemporaries

Here's a list of people born in 1965, just like me. 



Robert Downey Jr.
Shania Twain
Gong Li
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
Sherilyn Fenn
Dr Dre
Chris Rock
Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Diane Lane
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Alan Cumming
Julia Ormond
Joely Richardson
Slash
Jeremy Piven
JK Rowling
Elizabeth Hurley
Manuel Uribe Garza
Sarah Jessica Parker
Paul WS Anderson
John C Reilly
Brooke Shields
Björk
Ben

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Cute friends

The winner of the All My Facebook Friends Are Gorgeous award is this guy. Even the thumbnails are stunning.

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End time: it's all Elizabeth Taylor's fault

I’m intrigued and fascinated by the Rapture – the idea that Jesus is coming back, gathering up all the believers, including the dead ones, and taking them to heaven.The people who believe in it are a fervent group, to say the least. They're close readers of the Bible, although I must say only when it suits their purposes. There’s a lot of speculation among them about timing and whether the rest

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Let Wikipedia launch your music career

Got some time to waste? Go to Wikipedia and hit the Random article button on the left-hand side. That’s the name of your band. Hit it again to find the name of your hot new CD. A few more times and you’ve got the names of all your songs. Here’s mine:BAND: SimtelALBUM: Guqin aestheticsTRACKS:Space pirateDe DannanCineasteNest FreemarkBondelumMedial intercondylar tubercleSpring Garden TunnelWilliam

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It turns out all my dreams are cliches

Everyone dreams. At about two hours a night, the average person spends six years of their life dreaming.We don't know how or why we dream, the thing between our ears still being one of the great scientific mysteries. We do, however, know what we dream about.Since the 1950s, there have been several large-scale studies of the content of dreams.The most common emotional state we experience in our

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Oh, no – does this make me a geek?

There's this guy called Jay Hinson. He's bright. Really bright. His PhD thesis was on the decay of the tau lepton into three charged pions and a tau neutrino. That's particle physics, people.So Jay lets his mind wander one day and starts to think about "technology which allows subspace fields to 'reduce' the mass of a ship while still allowing for energy and momentum conservation".Except when Jay

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I, Tallulah

I'm reading Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography, Tallulah. It's one of the most eloquent, entertaining books I've ever read.In the chapter called "Affidavit of the Accused", she writes:I've had many momentary love affairs. A lot of these impromptu romances have been climaxed in a fashion not generally condoned. I go into them impulsively. I scorn any notion of their permanence. I forget the fever

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Coming soon

Peter Kay has a new sitcom in production called Britain's Got The Pop Factor ... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice.

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Design by committee

My friend David was working on a logo for a mining company that started out with this completely on-brief sketch:and, thanks to everyone at the client end weighing in with their fascinating opinions, somehow ended up, at one point, with this horror:His entire sordid history of what happens when you let clients keep making changes is here.

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You guys are no fun

Some random Taliban prohibitions:anything made from human hairequipment that produces the joy of musicpool tableslobsternail polishsewing cataloguespictureschessmasks

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Just Druitt

When news happens in the outer Sydney suburb of Mount Druitt, it’s never going to be a good thing. Here are the recent headlines from ABC News tagged “Mount Druitt”.Man flips car during high-speed chaseMan charged over Sydney rape spreeYoung crims face curfews in Australian firstSydney serial sex attacker 'will strike again'Sydney sex attacks feared linkedP-plater 'doing 110 in a 60km zone'Teens

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