• 15:31 Is waiting for call about her car insurance and trying to structure the plot for all of New Chronicles Vol1. With no suggestions. bah. #
• 17:03 Ew! I’m all wet! ♫ blip.fm/~73e4 #
• 17:33 @andygates Just for you: inspirational farming music lol! ♫ blip.fm/~73pb #
• 17:36 Real feel good stuff, this. ♫ blip.fm/~73qr #

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• 09:05 Back at work, but still in dark glasses (NOT TAKING THEM OFF). Returning to "normality" sucks. Who gets to decide "normal" anyway? #
• 10:08 @andygates You got there first! I was going to say that! #
• 10:11 @skean Actually, I look more like Tank Girl. tinyurl.com/69o67d #
• 13:32 @skean No, even with the shades. They’re the same as the ones she’s wearing in that pic (hence the tinyurl). #
• 13:33 @skean Although the black leather idea is quite appealing. #
• 16:22 Home again home again jiggety jig… ♫ blip.fm/~6s5c #
• 22:50 Just a quickie… ♫ blip.fm/~6wiw #

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The comments on this morning’s offering from spEak You’re bRanes are particularly fine.

• 10:56 What a beautiful, sunny day. Shame I still have a broken foot! ♫ blip.fm/~6hyp #
• 11:18 Frood’s replacing his bar tape with glow in the dark, so he’ll hear it this morning… ♫ blip.fm/~6i1c #
• 11:52 This one’s for @andygates although it should probably be "badger den" ♫ blip.fm/~6i51 #
• 12:11 This one’s from Frood. ♫ blip.fm/~6i7p #
• 12:36 Was always a favourite on the jukebox in the Gloucester Arms ♫ blip.fm/~6iaf #
• 14:40 @warrenellis To where?I can’t decide whether that’s temptation or bait. #
• 15:01 Frood is abandoning me for the rest of the day. ♫ blip.fm/~6ito #

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• 21:10 @kayucian The universe has it in for me right now, it seems! #
• 21:11 @andygates For some reason (probably the pain) that’s not as funny as it probably should be. #
• 10:56 What a beautiful, sunny day. Shame I still have a broken foot! ♫ blip.fm/~6hyp #
• 11:18 Frood’s replacing his bar tape with glow in the dark, so he’ll hear it this morning… ♫ blip.fm/~6i1c #
• 11:52 This one’s for @andygates although it should probably be "badger den" ♫ blip.fm/~6i51 #
• 12:11 This one’s from Frood. ♫ blip.fm/~6i7p #
• 12:36 Was always a favourite on the jukebox in the Gloucester Arms ♫ blip.fm/~6iaf #
• 14:40 @warrenellis To where?I can’t decide whether that’s temptation or bait. #
• 15:01 Frood is abandoning me for the rest of the day. ♫ blip.fm/~6ito #

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• 16:22 @andygates tinyurl.com/4d7avw #
• 18:28 Another week’s shopping done. Still to make dinner. #
• 20:21 Things binocular ppl don’t do: misjudge distance between fingers and hot oil in pan. I fried my finger (literally). #

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• 22:10 Getting frustrated with House of Leaves. So much data! So little information! #
• 10:26 Morning, world. ♫ blip.fm/~5wbp #
• 11:26 Today I am wearing sunglasses with the curtains drawn. ♫ blip.fm/~5wkl #
• 11:54 Old skool… ♫ blip.fm/~5woi #
• 12:08 If you don’t enjoy this there’s something wrong with you. Now where’s that DVD… ♫ blip.fm/~5wqd #
• 12:14 @splinister Yeah, but it’s good fun though 🙂 #
• 12:19 @splinister If you ever get the chance, watch the Australian film "Malcolm". The bin scene is fantastic. ♫ blip.fm/~5wsc #
• 13:08 The first time I heard this I was 14 and sitting in the bedroom of a guy in Hamburg… Don’t ask. ♫ blip.fm/~5x2t #
• 13:17 One of my favourite videos of all time. ♫ blip.fm/~5x4u #
• 13:28 "Quantum of Solace"? WTF is THAT supposed to mean? #
• 13:30 @splinister George Orwell meets Dada… ♫ blip.fm/~5x8m #
• 13:52 @splinister Your Bobby Womack reminded me of this one from Ghost Dog. ♫ blip.fm/~5xh5 #
• 13:54 Chicken good! ♫ blip.fm/~5xhx #
• 14:14 I don’t think this needs any more Walken or cowbells… ♫ blip.fm/~5xpr #
• 14:27 @andygates yeah. Sometimes I love having enough basic knowledge to run parity checks 😉 #
• 14:29 @cosita made me think of this. Japanese happy bum music no doubt. ♫ blip.fm/~5xww #
• 14:57 @andygates Remind me? #
• 15:01 In honour of my latest obsession with comparing things to the LHC. ♫ blip.fm/~5yda #
• 15:02 Cake! ♫ blip.fm/~5ydt #
• 15:24 @andygates I don’t remember. I remember being the only one on deck at 2am in my undies stressing about the mooring, you lot snoring below! #
• 15:42 @andygates You bet! This planet-sized brain isn’t for nothing, you know. And I can cook, too! #

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After a rotten month, Anth got this month’s CityCycling up yesterday. Go check it out. Jaquie Phelan on round food (Yarly); Russell McGilton on Bombay to Beijing by bicycle; and all the regulars.

Go waste some time.

As seen on spEak You’re bRanes:

Spider ‘kills’ pet dog after paratrooper accidentally brings it home from Afghanistan

When Rodney Griffiths came home on leave from Afghanistan, he thought he was leaving the perils of the desert behind.

But a little bit of danger had hitched a ride back with him.

A camel spider has been seen scuttling across the floor of the paratrooper’s home – and is thought to have killed the family’s pet dog Bella.

A camel spider? Not a true spider and, coincidentally, not venomous. This is my favourite bit:

She has left out traps and plates of raw mince in the bedroom. The meat has been devoured, but so far the spider has managed to escape.

Ha ha ha ha ha. You couldn’t make it up.

Better yet, as you can see from this delightful picture showing the concerned dog owner, the “traps” they’ve put out include mousetraps.

Good one! I’m sure that’ll be brilliantly effective!

Facepalm.

This is the first ever picture of the Earth taken from the surface of another planet.

That is awesome. I mean, the pic itself doesn’t have the same heart-stopping beauty of the Earth taken from our own orbit, but a photo taken from the surface of another planet in our Solar System is just so neat.

And the bio of Scott Maxwell, the rover driver, is not exactly what you’d expect to find on the NASA website…

It amuses me immensely that the various NASA projects tweet at each other in the first person, such as this one from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter:

“Appreciating my awesome instrument teams…so glad they’re here with me during my testing!”

While over at Cern it’s a rather more dry style:

“The final LHC synchronization test before first beam was a success.”

It’s the same as the cultural difference demonstrated by comparing “Good job!” with “Well done,” I suspect.