As usual, the real interest is in the comments. First, the post: Every person or account on Twitter has a Kred score, which is made up of two parts: the influence score and the outreach score. Your influence score is a measure of your ability to inspire others. It is a number on a scale [...]
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Not sure why I care about someone whose lifestyle I dislike, whose politics are the pits,who is emotional and brittle and yet those opposed to her are worse. Hollande [38%] is leading and Aubry [30%] is behind. My reading of her vote might be askew [it is in French after all] but it seems she [...]
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Have you had your porridge for breakfast this morning? I hope so because today is World Porridge Day and if you haven’t had your porridge, why not?? Simple to prepare and highly nutritious; the perfect start to the day- 4oz pinhead or rolled oats 9½fl oz water or milk or a mixture of both Place [...]
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At this stage of the proceedings, there’s little point in rehashing the old material, as I explained, in a frustrated way, to a Knox supporter in another post’s comments thread – it can be viewed in the Massei Report, from the sidebar at TJMK and at various places in the PMF.
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I have Wales and NZ winning with NZ having a tough time in taking it out in the final. You?
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By no means an assertion about Dearieme himself but regurgitating presenting some of the best music of the last three years at this blog – starting this evening:
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Click to zoom of course: Chocolate Hills, Philippines
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It didn’t seem anything worse than dire daytime television when I saw, like you, all the ads for MomLife but I’d also read negatives and hadn’t paid them much mind. I recall there were people mocking it and then a few were down on it for some reasons, in a harsher way. It seemed to [...]
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Man Widdicombe did a piece which was meant to be tongue in cheek but he really does have a point: A university fresher survived a 20ft fall unharmed “because he was drunk”. Strangely this story wasn’t picked up by the national media. Can’t think why … Pavlov’s Cat said… My brother, a very long time [...]
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They both desperately wanted to take on England. Pity. England were so woeful they don’t deserve to be called England. Telegraph: The end was fitting for there can never have been a more awful first-half performance by England at such a critical juncture. Somehow, the abjectness captured the mood of their entire World Cup; bleak, [...]
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Sometime in the 70s John Lennon was asked- “what would the Beatles sound like now if they had not split up?” And Lennon replied “we would probably have turned into the Electric Light Orchestra” Judge for yourself-
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In case you missed this in the past few decades and are now gnashing the teeth and weeping – you now have the scrolls in glorious technicolour, enhanced and ready for your viewing pleasure:
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We have been here before . News in today’s papers is that Frankel, unbeaten in eight starts this year, may command stud fees of £100,000 next year. I wonder if Usain Bolt is jealous? Frankel is a truly impressive horse and that long stride is very similar to that of his sire Galileo who won [...]
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Chuckles has hit back at the music running at this place with his Vietnam series and now goes all native. You be the judge.
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In the light of recent events, AK Haart, writing on scientific evidence itself under the heading “Unwelcome Ideas“, has presented Paul Karl Feyerabend:
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Angus reports: Visitors to Southsea beach, near Portsmouth, filmed the penguin diving in and out of the waves. Joanne Gordon, 35, of Aldershot, said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw it swimming around away just six feet from me.” I commented: That’s nothing – out of our skulls in our 20s, one early morning [...]
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The agreement with the town’s residents is that the asylum seekers should remain as invisible as possible. When Birmensdorf first announced its plans for the trailers in the spring 2010, neighbors protested.
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One point each and a bonus two if you ignore it altogether: 1. Who claimed to have “already eaten lunch” when served British beef? 2. Name the Democratic president who wore a beard. 3. Who was the Prime Minister during the winter of discontent? 4. Who was the first U.S. President born in hospital? 5. [...]
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From the BBC- Born Herbert Jansch on 3 November 1943 in Glasgow – to a family originally from Hamburg – he is survived by his wife Loren. Jansch, a key figure in the folk revival in Britain in the 1960s. Between 1967 and 1973, he was part of Pentangle. He received two Lifetime Achievement Awards [...]
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This is the type of thing which stops and makes us think:
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Had to smile at Bill Whittle in one of his vids, speaking of the nanny state: This horrific, faceless state, identified only by the condescending smile of those acting out of the Greater Good, that cradle to grave, busybody, do-gooderism.
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When I read this [in the pic], I thought WTF? What could be “latest”? In a stunning development today, Steve Jobs is still deceased, not moving, not even a murmur. The Telegraph will inform you the moment there is any change in the situation. Now we cross to Alistair Cooke who is at the scene [...]
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Hvít jörð var á Akureyri í morgun. Fyrsti snjór haustsins er fallinn á Akureyri en bæjarbúar vöknuðu við hvíta jörð í morgun. Winter is here, you’ll be delighted to hear. Akureyri residents in north Iceland woke up to a snow-covered ground this morning; it is the first winter snow to fall on the ground in [...]
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Click to zoom. Set some 52 miles from Melbourne, this provincial town, now proudly a city, was “the big smoke” for western district farmers from where many famous politicians and others have come, usually for the Country or Liberal parties [conservative]. Ballarat was another such town, set further inland.
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The most interesting aspects of each conference are listed below. Opinions are those of the blog author only and no offence is intended to politicians, living or dead. That last sentence was a lie.
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