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7 things I did not know last week
- M&S and Argos have audio versions of their catalogues. (Via James Cridland’s blog)
- Newborn babies cry with mother’s accent.
- Avatar is the first movie James Cameron’s has directed since 1997’s Titanic.
- Greenland used to be part of the European Union but it is now one of its overseas territories.
- Nigella Lawson’s mother wanted to call her Gondola.
- Tajik (spoken in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia) is a modern variety of Persian. It is written with the Cyrillic alphabet but authorities are considering switching to Persian script.
- A cat and a Volkswagen Golf have the same eco-footprint.
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How to view Gmail contacts' birthdays in Google Calendar
I knew you could sync your Gmail contacts’ birthdays and events with Google Calendar, but I could not find the ‘Browse public calendars’ link mentioned in the post Contacts’ birthday and events calendar supported in Google Calendar. I found it instead under Settings > Calendars > Browse interesting calendars > More > Contacts’ birthdays and events > Subscribe
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Old building in Aurisina, Italy
Found while getting lost. Sometimes I cherish my lack of sense of
directions.
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Vote Ray for Mister Eagle 2009
Went for a drink at the Eagle across the road to support my friend Ray
who is competing in Mr Eagle 2009!
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Vote Ray for Mister Eagle 2009
Went for a drink at the Eagle across the road to support my friend Ray
who is competing in Mr Eagle 2009!
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7 things I did not know before watching Life
Last night I watched the first two episodes of the BBC series Life and learnt that:
- Cheetas are mush smaller than ostriches.
- Some fish can fly - well, glide actually but it’s impressive nonetheless.
- The sensors on a Venus fly trap must be touched twice within twenty seconds for the blades to shut.
- The Brazilian pygmy gecko is unsyncable.
- Komodo dragons can kill a much larger water buffalo with a single poisonous bite - and then wait for up to several weeks next to the buffalo waiting for it to die so that they can feast on it.
- Brown basilisk lizards can walk on water and are therefore nicknamed ‘Jesus’ or ‘Jesus Christ’ lizards.
- Dolphins are even more intelligent than I thought they were. A small group of dolphins in Florida make a circle of murky water by swimming rapidly, and then wait outside the circle to catch panicked fish jumping out straight into their open mouths.
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Help me raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer
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My top for Sunday's race
I’ve just received the vest from the charity I’m running the Great
South Run for. Blimey it’s pink. I love it.
at http://www.justgiving.com/lucabelletti
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John and Edward welcome you
Watching the x factor live show with friends. They have pinned this on
the front door:
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7 things I did not know last week
- In 1994 the Estonian Royalist Party offered Prince Edward the (non-existent) position of King of Estonia.
- Actor Stephen Moyer (vampire Bill Compton in True Blood) is British. Essex boy, actually (not that you’d guess it from his Southern US drawl in the series). Oh, and he turns forty tomorrow.
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Caffeine is a bug killer.
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David Bowie’s Loving the Alien is a ‘vivid depiction of Bowie’s famous dislike for organized religion’. Pretty obvious from the lyrics I guess, but I think the last time I listened to it I did not speak English.
- You cannot create a Gmail label named ‘todo’ - possibly because it’s a reserved internal name.
- Jonas Altberg (Basshunter) has been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome. Hear him talk about it at BBC Chartblog.
- More than half of all Argentines are descended from Italian immigrants.
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