June 2010

Time To Whip Out the Lucky Underpants

24 June 2010

Thanks for wearing your lucky socks, but now it’s time to break out your lucky pants (that’s underpants for you Americans)! That is of course if you’re one of the estimated 5 million English who regularly participate in superstitious pre-match rituals before a game of football (soccer) in order to help your team win. Count [...]

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Civilisation V out this Autumn

17 June 2010

For many years, playing computer games was my #1 hobby. This is something I mostly resolved a few years ago, and I now rarely play games, and then only on my iPhone now. However, Civilization has always had a soft spot in my heart, as it was one of the very first PC games I [...]

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Super Cool 3D Video of old Masters

8 June 2010

I stopped posting funny videos on my blog a while back, but this one is just superb. Give it a few moments to get going, it’s a cracker, the Vitruvian Man cracked me up!

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Easter Island – a lesson from the past

7 June 2010

“In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Are we about to follow their lead?” So begins a fantastic article that draws on pollen analysis techniques to determine the history of Easter Island [...]

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