Angus reports that according to “experts”: Internet Explorer users have a lower than average IQ, according to research by Consulting firm AptiQuant. The study gave web surfers an IQ test, and then plotted their scores against the browser they used. IE surfers were found to have an average IQ lower than people using Chrome, Firefox [...]
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I suspect that Dearieme has had a gutful of the jangling guitars:
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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida 1863-1923 is a Spanish painter, born in Valencia, and is relatively unknown outside his native land. He is regarded as the Spanish Impressionist and if his depiction of light is not quite as good as Monet it is certainly exceptional.
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Just imagine – high on a hill in Sicily, it’s 42 degrees Celsius in mid-August: [Source Wiki] There’s a doorway to a cave where I hide from the heat:
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World Opinion Poll, September 2008 There was a post scheduled for now but in the light of various things being said around the sphere this morning, I need to run this post instead. At my friend and colleague Longrider‘s site, one commenter wondered that “conspiracy theorists” should still be pushing this one. Another, Chris Snowdon, [...]
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Jesse: But in the long run, paper will deteriorate, because it has nowhere else to go. The end game for the eggheads is a worldwide central bank setting fiscal policy and dictating values under the direction of a few senior pigmen. I don’t think they will get it, or at least just yet. These are [...]
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They took their name from the Aldous Huxley book The Doors Of Perception which title Huxley took from William Blake’s poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Whatever; the music is pretty good- this blog has been grooving over groovy bass players recently so this is a bit of interesting trivia from here
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Just what we always suspected about those dolphins: L’électroréception permet au mammifère de détecter les petits champs électriques émis par des proies potentielles, a révélé une étude allemande menée sur un spécimen en captivité. On connait cinq sens au dauphin : la vue, le toucher, l’ouïe, le goût et l’écholocation. Ce dernier lui permet, comme [...]
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For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like:
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You might recall a post on the world of High Frequency Trading. Is it the career for you? You be the judge: I’ll be posting anonymously, but I think many here have a very poor understanding of what we do. Most of that is because we do tend to be a very secretive group, but [...]
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Over at Orphans now. This is one of my more monolithic posts but I do think it was worthwhile. Take a look if you’re bored.
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You may not know the name but you have probably heard his Hammond Organ playing. Al Kooper provided that wondrous swirling organ sound on Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone but, as he explains here, he more or less invited himself into the recording session- ………and a potted history of his career-
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There’ll be a 12 hour hiatus at this blog, while I prepare a post for Orphans promised for this evening [ETA 19:00]. Sorry.
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