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Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019

Lukas Stanley’s online $1000 treasure hunt: Hint video #1

A while back I posted about Lukas Stanley’s online treasure hunt…. for those who need reminding you can, from your armchair or bed or wherever you physically are online, and…

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Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

Anonymous’ Greatest Hits (well, on Spotify)

Whoever the official titleholder is, Spotify’s most prolific artist must surely be the dauntingly productive Various Artists, who emerges with a slew of new compilations and soundtracks and such every…

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Posted on August 5, 2019

August 4th: Feast of St Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs

This is the feast day of St Sithney, patron of mad dogs: According to a Breton folk story, God revealed to Sithney that he was to be the patron of…

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Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

Want long life? Be Bond, sing about Bond, star with Julie Andrews, be Julie Andrews, appear with Ray Harryhausen

Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…

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Posted on May 31, 2019

Beware the gleaming, purpose built headquarters: C Northcote Parkinson’s Law of Buildings

From the Johannes de Berlaymont blog a few years back,   here is a piece on C Northcote Parkinson, prophet of administration. I have a sense that the world of…

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Posted on May 29, 2019

Great moments in stage names: from Angus Murdo McKenzie to Karl Denver

If ever a name sounded like a Hollywood Scotsman, it was Angus Murdo McKenzie. And if ever a name sounded like a Scottish fantasy of a Wild West cowboy, it…

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Posted on April 26, 2019

Google Play’s judgment of “romantic” not quite what one might expect

I mean, “A Clockwork Orange” is not what I would think of as a date movie…

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Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

The lost worlds of Debois and Julieta Guipeal at the Tipperary County Museum

This is Portrait of a Man, by Julieta Guipeal: Apologies for the photo quality – this was taken with my phone’s camera in a well-lit (and thereby reflective) space. It…

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