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It’s going to be a busy day for me today, as you’ll see, so I’m going to kick back with a news compendium and maybe one or two other posts and take it easy before things get going.
- An American scientist (an ID badge-carrying member of that cosmic comedy troop that takes the mysteries of life and makes them the hysterics of life) the donates hisn rather significant Shakespeare collection to UCLA
- And to prove their laffy-daffiness, scientists had the missile headed to blow up the moon tweet its last moments as the falling whale from Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide… youse guys…. (speaking of scientists, see image below)
- And of course, there’s a new HGttG book coming, so it’s a good excuse for people to wear bathrobes in public
- Bidding war for Mandela archive
- Mr Rochester beats the pants off Mr Darcy… don’t get all hot and bothered now, it’s just a romantic character poll
- John Freeman has been named permanent editor of Granta… this is a good thing
- Edinburgh has someone new for you to suck up to
- Penguins spotted in China!
- The “inherent” similarities between Grand Theft Auto and Thomas Pynchon (from Michael)
- Brits not only buy more books than Americans, they buy fewer potboilers and bodice-rippers—someone should study this data for possible correlation to Big Mac sales
- Letter of mind-blowing awesomeness:
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October 14th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Wow! You could never fake something like that! Awesome!