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I've been using Google Reader recently, following the lamented death of Planet Fleck, and I suppose I have to admit its better. Here are some "shared items" if, for some reason, you want to read what I read.

fun:

Today Libya...

Category: fun

Good luck folks....

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New watch, old watch, still the same

Category: fun

About a year ago I enthused about my new watch, a Garmin Forerunner 110. Since then it has become ever-more-vital, sustaining me through any number of runs. However about a month ago it started to mist up inside. I...

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Where am I now? [*]

Category: fun

Following the success of Where are we now? from Jules-n-James, I present you with a slightly harder one: [*] I am, of course, not there now. Nor was I there when I wrote this. But I was there when I...

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Youtube monkeys

Category: fun

All I wanted was "the internet is for porn". It isn't original I'm afraid....

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Nuclear Reactor Boy's Tummy Ache

Category: fun

It is all explained here "in a calm rational scientific manner". Refs * Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy By David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Cambridge University * Pakistan miners feared dead -...

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Good jokes for bad times

Category: fun

I'm sorry, but information on the list is only available via the list. As soon as you subscribe, you will get an email with full instructions. Please disable your spam filter, as we use steganography to make the more important...

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Who ya gonna read?

Category: climate communication

Thank to Hank, who spotted this. If you go to Nature's upcoming climate publication, there's an online quiz they're using to decide who gets a freebie: https://www.sunbeltfs.com/forms/nq/subscribe.asp. At one point it asks what climate-related blogs you read. Naturally, only the...

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And now for something completely different...

Category: rowing

No, not a man with a stoat through his head. Instead, what appears to be an utterly gratuitious waste of time and money: Yes, its a 5x. WTF? Presumably, these people really do have so much spare cash that they...

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Strange stuff from Pharyngula

Category: fun

I don't, in general, read my fellow science blogs. Not because I hate them, you understand, but because they talk about other stuff. But I was lead to Inventing excuses for a Bible story, and getting them published in a...

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Units

Category: misc

A friend pointed out just recently: we usually measure a car's fuel efficiency in Miles per Gallon. But some would like us to switch to the more logical Gallons per Mile (or 10,000 miles, to make the numbers more convenient,...

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