Archive > August 2008

Information Super Highway, my ass…

I’ve been told that the interwebs is an excellent place from which information can be harvested and put to good use.
I’ve also been told that John Laws once released an album of his poems, read aloud, with a romantic string arrangement backing.
However, one of these things is a heinous lie and oh, it’s not the [...]

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And the winner is…

for the category of most evocative article title I came across whilst searching for references to complete an Endnote library is…
“Chemical load as a factor in skin sensitization risk assessment: rodent versus man”
I know in my heart of hearts that the experiment didn’t look exactly as I pictured it (thousands cheering wildly in a packed [...]

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Something else I’m not great at

So, here’s another nighttime missive from my subconscious – see if you can puzzle this one out:
Last night, I got asked to host the Grammy Awards. Not quite sure why, but I was pretty sure they must have had a good reason, heard through word-of-mouth about how rad I am, something like that.
But yeah, clearly [...]

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