Hypoallergenic cats.  I guess it had to happen…

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Naked women more dangerous than bombs… (You heard it here first. Well, okay, second or third…)

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Flirt cards tested at Oktoberfest… But how many people just text each other instead?

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Fake terracotta warrior invades tomb …And more or less gets away with it

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Fawlty Towers reopens …But John Cleese sits out the opening ceremony

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Will New York ban transfats? …Should be interesting to see how this plays out…

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But not ever going to be forgotten around here. Old friend, houseguest, fellow writer: we genuinely will not see his like again. Mike had the unique gift of making the people around him feel (and be) wittier, smarter, more creative than they usually were. So being in Mike’s company left one in an unusual state […]

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(sigh) I was going to be up bright and early this morning to watch the golfing proceedings start…but in the wild post-hurricane weather of last night, power lines went down all over eastern Kildare and northern Wicklow; with the result that we lost our electricity about eight-thirty last night, and it’s not back up yet. […]

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I’ve been thinking about the redesign of EuropeanCuisines.com for a while now: while there’s a lot of data there, the site’s started to seem very static in terms of what other food sites have to offer. So we’re starting to make some changes.

We’ve started a new version of the site based on the open-source content […]

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Duane “Dog” Chapman of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” fame has just been released on bail after an arrest on foot of an extradition request from Mexico. They want him on a charge of illegal detention: apparently he chased a criminal to Mexico and caught him there. But bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.
The part of […]

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Wow, more than a thousand fifteen hundred of you have been in since Glenn put up that posting. Welcome!
For those of you curious about what’s going on around here at the moment: a precís –

First of all, the usual blogging. Tales of travel, cats, food, the home life of a writer married to another […]

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From an article about the deploying of the International Space Station’s new solar panels: one astronaut is mentioned…
…Christopher J. Ferguson, another Navy captain, who is on his first shuttle mission and is a member of the all-astronaut rock band Max Q.
The all-astronaut rock band??!!
Where do they play? Where can a geek(ette) buy their CDs? Someone […]

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