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    Exams have finally finished! Had a fun day today watching the England – Argentina match on a cinema screen, and then spent the rest of the day at a barbeque. Going off to Oxford tomorrow to visit my girlfriend as well. Now I can finally stop trying to keep all these random facts in my…

  • 24 DVD

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    24 is coming out on DVD this August! And it’ll be in the UK first. Not too shabby, especially at �35.

  • Thread on VPmusic

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    I’m currently running a discussion about the best way to start an mmoe/alternate reality game over at a set of forums – there’s some interesting stuff being said.

  • Travelling

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    So it seems that this summer I will be working at UCSD in San Diego for a bit over six weeks from late June to early August, and then spending a week in Washington DC. Any readers live nearby, or have any tourist tips?

  • Spooks Yahoo

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    Someone has set up a Spooks YahooGroup to discuss the game. Amusingly, I can recognise least three of the twenty-two current members as Cloudmakers veterans.

  • Squirrels

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    Squirrels – are they really a force for good?

  • TV

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    I was reading a thread on Metafilter about television when I realised that there are now two ways to look at it. You can watch television, or you can watch a programme. To me, ‘watching television’ treats television as an end in itself, whereas ‘watching a programme’ treats it as a means to an end.…

  • Firewalking

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    My answer to a firewalking question was published in today’s Notes and Queries section of the Guardian.

  • Trinity nuclear test

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    Anecdote of the day: Physicist Ted Taylor used a parabolic mirror to light his cigarette with the flash from the Trinity nuclear bomb test (from Rich).

  • Behaviour

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    Quote of the day: “The thing with behaviour is that we don’t know what subjects are thinking. I don’t know whether my rats are pressing the lever because they know they’ll get heroin – and I don’t know whether children will be surprised because they think ‘Hey, the laws of gravity have changed!’”