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via Kottke, some fab composite photos of New York
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This looks like a brilliant plan. Can't wait.
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'Perhaps the most disquieting development in the candy novelty world is the 'Candy Pistol'. You place the barrel between your lips and pull the trigger to fire a candy bullet into your mouth.' Genuinely creepy.
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'A fascinating new study on the types of people who stalk or harass the British Royal Family has just been published online by the journal Psychological Medicine.
A group of forensic psychologists examined, by hand, twenty thousand files held by SO14, the Metropolitan Police Service's Royalty Protection unit, to study people who had made inappropriate approaches or communications with the British royals.
This is the classification of harassers and stalkers by motivation'
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Deeply weird discovery. Ain't nature wonderful.
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'The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.'
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I didn't realise the 'Keep calm and carry on' poster was designed for the event of a successful German invasion. Adds a whole new creepy note to it.
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Interesting article about how internet censorship works in China. The article is now 3 years old, which is a long time on the internet, but it's worth reading.