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This is sooo cool: Walk Score

Our little garret here gets a 88. Peter’s work gets a 98. My house in CA gets a 37. Peter’s house at home gets a 17 (hah!) but I dunno if where that is is public knowledge. I wonder how it’ll score Half’s mini-mart bicycling?

Update: Whilst waiting for this [...]

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We got to the third episode of the tenth season of Top Gear tonight (don’t pirate illegal video, kids!) and this. just. killed me.

It’s nearly ten minutes long but oh, god it’s worth it.

(Cameos (for those less familiar perhaps with the BBC’s personalities): John Humphreys, Fiona Bruce, and Dermot Murnaghan.)

But really, check out their conclusion [...]

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Literally.

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So you can just see Tiger Woods watching it, muttering to himself “Well sure, when he’s three, but I was golfing with Bob Hope when I was two…” and then he gets to the halfway point and says “Oh come on!”

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Telegraph - Old ‘leeches’ drive a wedge in golf clubs

Senior citizens who dedicate their retirement days to golf have been denounced as “leeches” on their clubs. Many elderly players, who pay reduced fees, spend more than half their week playing, ruining courses and annoying younger members who often pay a [...]

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The Times - All the best motorists are conservatives, by Michael Gove

Is driving inherently right wing? The evidence, initially, appears overwhelming. Many years ago, in Reithian times, the BBC used to produce a motoring show of quite narcoleptic dullness. The original Top Gear was a programme tailored for those who found One Man [...]

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The Times - Regeneration Games An intriguing Olympic stadium design but what happens after 2012?

Why, is it just a big canvas tent? ninme asks hopefully

The designs for the principal Olympic stadium, published yesterday, have been produced well ahead of time and construction will start many months ahead of schedule. The same has occurred for [...]

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Now we can all go to heaven!

Bubblehead - Get Thee Hence, Satan!

(So, I had an enjoyable evening last weekend with some cousins rubbishing the awful We Are Marshall all throughout the movie, due to its idiotic insistence that football is something that can make the tragic 88 good friends and family members a-okay and not [...]

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This could be a funniest item of the day, but Seattle in the news doesn’t deserve that.

AP - Overhead Cam Falls Onto Field in Seattle

An overhead NBC television camera mounted on wires collapsed onto the turf during a timeout in Sunday night’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks, causing a [...]

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Bubblehead’s finally got his trip diary up of his and his two kids’ trip to Seattle for the Penny Arcade Expo last month:

The Stupid Shall Be Punished - Trip Report: Penny Arcade Expo, Seattle

What delightful boys he has. Such discerning tastes.

Update:

Ah yes. It did occur to me to wonder, was the the particular son [...]

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Flossie Chambers, 89, playing ten pin bowling

Bless.

Telegraph - Elderly ‘addicted’ to Nintendo Wii at care home

The bridge games have been abandoned and the crosswords put to one side. Instead, the elderly residents of one retirement home in a Birmingham suburb have opted for a slightly more advanced means of entertainment. [...]

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Curtsy: Rueful Red, with a special thought towards Brett McS.

From this blog:

The Recusant Cricket Club

The Recusant Cricket Club is a safe haven from an increasingly ugly world: a world actively rooting out all that holds it together, a world plagued by secularism, liberalism and association football. The Club is for [...]

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BBC - Iraq celebrates football victory

Thousands of Iraqis have spilled onto the streets to celebrate their football squad’s Asian Cup victory, firing guns into the air despite a government ban.

Ah, Arabs.

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(I shouldn’t be hard on Spielberg. I like Spielberg. Let’s say his action here shall be potentially indicative of a new movement in Hollywood, in order to explain the title.)

ABC News - Spielberg Mulls Quitting Olympics to Pressure Chinese on Darfur Activists Look to Famed Director to Lean on China

Steven Spielberg, under pressure from [...]

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If you click through to read the whole article, not all the “photos from the world’s greatest cycling race!” “viva la tour!” links still in the sidebar. What can I say, it’s a French love affair.

Times Online - France mourns ‘death of the Tour’ as sponsors get cold feet after scandal

The French [...]

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