Burning joss sticks ‘as deadly as traffic fumes or cigarette smoke’
Category: Nice and curious
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I am not a hedgehog. Am I?
Is it true, as Wikipedia reports (possibly from this source), that people from Hertfordshire are nicknamed ‘Haycocks’ or ‘Hedgehogs’ in the same way that people from Yorkshire are ‘Tykes’?
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Half empty? Half full? Why can’t it be both?
Wendell notes two AP stories on US attitudes to the forthcoming year. One is very downbeat, the other very upbeat – but based on the same poll data.
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Halo How Not To Be Seen
The audio of Monty Python’s How Not To Be Seen, with visuals courtesy of first-person shooter Halo. (via MeFi)
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Indexed by Old Bag
A blog with lots of great little graphs.
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Reaction effect
A relaxing, beautiful and unwinnable flash game: try and get a chain reaction going.
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Er, that looks almost exactly like a…
Which corporate logo looks most like a penis? B3TA decides.
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Am I cystitis or not?
A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.
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Flanders and Flanders
Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.