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You know, that American millionaire… Warren Buffay.
Overheard: Man confidently talking to friend

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More brilliance from xkcd.

More brilliance from xkcd.

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We’re very excited, it’s an honour to perform for the most famous man in the world, after Simon Cowell that is.
Jedward, on performing for the Obamas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13474080 

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Perfect accompaniment to new Hockney exhibition at the RA.

Perfect accompaniment to new Hockney exhibition at the RA.

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If the state regulates the press, then the press no longer regulates the state…an unfortunate state of affairs.
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry, reported by Dan Sabbagh.

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Small dogs in bags

I watched a very odd little dance on the train home from work today.

The girl sitting opposite had a huge handbag that occasionally howled - it transpired the bag contained a very small (but quite loud) dog. The dog wasn’t happy about being in the bag, so the girl opened the bag so it could stick its head and front paws out.

Unfortunately the first thing the dog saw was an enormous pitbull-type dog sitting in the aisle next to it. After some petrified trembling, bag-dog buried itself back in the cosy confines of its mobile home.

Predictably its next move was to get fed up of the bag and start howling again… so girl lets it out, it sniffs around, spots pitbull-type dog, trembles and hides, rinse and repeat.

I don’t really judge the dog here, but the owner? A little. Bag-dog was alternating between annoyingly cramped and scared out of its wits. Perhaps that’s not a great way to carry a dog?

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Nice poem on English pronunciation

Lots of people linked to this on Twitter but I think the first I saw was @RalphBassfeld.

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Science and cats - perfect internet fodder.

Science and cats - perfect internet fodder.

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…I am not a little pleased to find that you are resolved on this occasion to insist rather on Experiments than Syllogismes. For I, and no doubt You, have long observed, that those Dialetical subtleties, that the Schoolmen too often employ about Physiological Mysteries, are wont much more to declare the wit of him that uses them, then increase the knowledge or remove the doubts of sober lovers of truth.
The Sceptical Chymist, Robert Boyle

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