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]]>This is absolutely horrible I've been reading the series since I was 16-17 :( I loved it so much I own every book 1 - 11 and I've been re-listening to them all on mp3 at work :( I think his work is an absolute masterpiece that will stand the test of time and be read and loved by generations to come. I am deeply saddened by this news and I do hope that through his wife and cousin his final vision is realized. I'm on the phone ending my relationship with my girlfriend right now and I saw this and I am far more devastated by this news than this break-up. This is utterly terrible for all who enjoyed his work.
http://digg.com/celebrity/Robert_Jordan_Wheel_of_Time_author_Dies
YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/profile?user=SexyBritain
Vaguely interesting article in marketing week:
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/57658?eid=59&ln=01
This was apparently written by an eleven year old child. If so, the kid should leave school immediatley and focus exclusively on animal poems. For those of you without eyes of the hawk, the classic in full:
Its long neck, looking at wrecks
Eyes as big as lemons
spots as big as melons
Horns like metal sticks
legs with hard kicks
Leaves it eats
not like meat
A black tongue
looks like it's stung
A calf to
A giraffe
(Jodie Clark age 11, in case Sevitz gives me shit about plagarism again)
Pizza express now has a pizza large enough to feed a real person. Up until this point they've had ones that look like a normal pizza just further away. No longer! Check out the pic, that's a normal wineglass:
It's called a Roma and now makes pizza express worth going to while hungry. Sadly they haven't been able to resist the lazy marketing innocent style copy:
"Our genuine pizzas are not like mama used to make, we have no idea how mama was"
ROFL
"Our new pizzas are thinner (Roman)
Crispier (Roman)
and can't sing opera for toffee (very un-Roman)"
ROFLcopterlolrus
"World War 2 is the greatest war," maintains Pitchford. "It's arguably the most important and certainly the largest scale war the Earth has ever known." Consequently, a large majority of games involving conflict and soldiering are thereby centered around the Second World War.
Do we agree? Though I do love the the "toodle-pip-pip" voiceovers in Call of Duty, I'd have to say that video games tend to focus on shooty wars mainly because swordy wars tend to suck on a joypad.
*waits for the wii-mote to actually work while dreaming of pirates vs. ninjas 17*
Apparently cheese is now a "status skill", the way I play I'd have to say it's more of s stamina skill. But whateva...
]]>Way way worse than hiking oil prices, or turning off Californinian power stations. Starbucks have raised their prices. Now generally I'm all for profits, and have toyed with the purchase of an "Adam Smith is my homeboy" t-shirt. But they raised the prices by 4p. Seriously: fopnece. WTF? Starbucks previously had pretty sensible, easily paid for with silver, prices. My grandeblackamericanowithanextrashottogo was two quid. Now it's £2.04. I'm gonna have to start picking coppers out of my change frisbee every morning. Or breaking serious money and walking with a change limp.
I'm actually quite likely to buy less coffee now, this strikes me as having had its customer needs research done in Excel.
/rant
]]>There was I, pootling through Digg, as one does while waiting for an enormo file to copy, when I came across this post:
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Richard_Dawkins_makes_Time_100_get_screwed_up_in_his_profile
It describes how Dawkins had his write-up in Time’s top 100 folk done by an advocate of intelligent design. What I found interesting was quite how quickly the thread degenerated into “mock the creationsist”, now I find this stuff as amusing as the next man, and complaining about the penchant for hyperbolae on Digg seems unlikely to have great results:
But in this case it's an issue as Dawkins spends a pretty large proportion of his latest book complaining that atheists are under-represented in politics and culture, and that this prevents the formation of groups sizable enough balance religious lobbies. It’s mildly interesting to note that the new digg-based democracy seem firmly in his camp. But perhaps a little too firmly? The problem that I had with God Delusion is that it advanced its argument with a fervour that seemed to be almost religious itself, and further polarised an already very impassioned debate. I’m a bit concerned that digg-like sites are set up to favour strong opinions over reasoned ones.
"We'd like to test the theory that if you're out slaying orcs the night before, you are more likely to contact each other with a business problem"
> The average family spends 10p a week on offal. This is no doubt skewed by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Ben, equating to a weekly expenditure of 3 million quid
> That same family spends 20p a week on water travel (including ferries)
> And a whopping 50p a week on the charmingly named toiletry requisites
> However, they spend a massive 80p week on funerals. Which goes some way to explaining why average people always look so pissed off on the tube