Some of you will know approximately where we live in Ireland, so I am sorry to tell you that this story is locally germane:
Post mortems due on County Wicklow bodies
They were our neighbors. Not the kind you’re close to, perhaps (though they were close to many others), but they were the kind you’d always wave […]

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I now have a personal referent for the phrase “horrified fascination”. It’s the inability to stop watching this unfold.
The latest developments:
Haha, I’m partying with Paris and you’re not.
Boo hoo. Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’m gonna go eat worms. (Noises off: “Yes, you’re right, we all hate you, just STFU.”) Also: Im sorry, […]

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I swear, it’s like watching high-stakes poker on TV. But high-stakes poker played by six-year-olds.
i m divorcin u kthxbye
Oh yeah? I want a lot of money or I’m taking the kids because you’re a bad mom.
No I’m not and no you’re not. Read the prenup again and buzz off.
Oh yeah? Well I have a sooper […]

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There are just a couple of things on my mind that (in light of earlier posts and responses) I want to share before I get back to the various pieces of work I need to be doing today.
Re whatever might have been going on in the ST:TNG offices as the first season got underway: […]

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I can’t often be bothered to blog about the antic caperings of the various political punditti and pundettes in my native land, but every now and then something comes up that’s just so, so …!!!
I was browsing through Wonkette, as I sometimes do, and ran into this in the midst of a transcript of a […]

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I love it when things like this happen. Once again neuroscience gets stood on its ear…
Terry Wallis awoke from a coma-like state 19 years after tumbling over a guardrail in a pickup truck and falling 25 feet into a dry riverbed. Now doctors armed with some of the latest brain-imaging technology think they may […]

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And it makes sense, when you think about it…
In an interesting experiment a team from Newcastle University found people put nearly three times as much money into a canteen ‘honesty box’ when buying a drink, when they were being watched by a pair of eyes on a poster.
…The eyes it seems were more effective than […]

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But then I’m a New Yorker. 
Reader’s Digest survey finds Big Apple to be world’s politest city
The magazine sent reporters “undercover” to 36 cities in 35 countries to measure courtesy. New York was the only American city on the list.the magazine’s politeness police gave three types of tests to more than 2,000 unwitting participants.
The […]

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Hmm. If when we’re in Japan next year I ever come across one of these portapotties, I’m going to examine it verrrrry carefully before I use it…
Now playing: Fretwork - Pavan: ‘Lachrimae Antiquae’
Technorati Tags: video, embarrassing, portaloo, portapotty, outdoor toilet

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Previously on Metaquotes:
Commune with Cthulhu??? Why would you want to talk to the fictional creation of a 1920’s writer who had lots of personal problems? You might as well summon the Spirit of Garfield to infuse your Lasagne with magikal might.
…Huh?  Oh, nothing, Great Old One, nothing at all. Have some tea…
Technorati Tags: Cthulhu, […]

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Makes perfect sense to me:
Infants as young as 18 months show altruistic behaviour, suggesting humans have a natural tendency to be helpful, German researchers have discovered….
…Many scientists have argued that altruism is a uniquely human function, hard-wired into our brains. The latest study suggests it is a strong human trait, perhaps present more than six […]

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