Yesterday's 50 x 100 x 50 post sent me spiralling down the rabbit's hole of the intertubes, where far and away the most mesmerising thing was this:

First let me get this off my chest. How can a respected newspaper allow this:

The Cassandras always proved wrong.

Painting: Ajax (the beast) and Cassandra, by John Joseph Solomon Cassandra's curse, lest we forget, was that although she was right, no-one would listen.

That feels a lot better. Onward.

The respected newspaper in question is the Wall Str...

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The Squeeze found this, and she's right; it is wonderful.

The gorilla totally knocks me dead. But is it Art? Of course not.

Screenshot from Flickr, showing that 15 results exist for photos tagged number and 15

I think this picture speaks for itself. But in case it doesn’t, the Gods at Flickr are most definitely pleased with my work. They also want you to send me money, because that will make you happy.

Wikipediagem:

In fact let me point out right now a factually incorrect statement that has obviously been put there with malice, in a place where you need technical skills in linguistics to spot it. In the [Wikipedia] article on renegade AIDS researcher Peter Duesberg, a pronunciation is given af...

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