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Quotes from The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

"A poet is a musician who can’t sing.Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart, and some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”

"Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous"

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The Last Word the New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells: A Celebration of Unusual Lives.

This one is as advertised a collection of obituaries. They are very short. So far I've read about eight of them and the longest one is about almost four and a half pages, but its very interesting to read what's been written about these people who've had lives that have impacted a lot of people in unexpected ways. Such as the inventor of the spacesuit, the woman who left $22 million to a university, etc.

A Canticle For Leibowitz was a suprisingly good read. I suspect that some might find it moralistic and preachy but I had no trouble appreciating what was going through the author's mind. A great read and higly recommended.

Enlightenment

Sinfest: The Webcomic To End all Webcomics

Bright Ideas

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I get a lot of people who call me with great ideas but if you can't sell them, what's the point?

:-)

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Remains

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Did the Earth Move for you?

Untitled Document: "The Quirkology team has joined forces with Professor John C. Brown, Astronomer Royal for
Scotland,to provide an answer to the age-old question 'did the earth move for you?'
The answer, it seems, is always yes, but we have gone all the way to find out just how far.
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Using the calculator
Simply select your nearest city. The latitude will automatically appear. Then enter the duration of
intercourse in minutes. Press the submit button to find out how far the earth moved for you. "

Quirkology - The Surname Study

"In the following article, originally published in The Daily Telegraph, Richard Wiseman describes how your surname may affect your life." Quirkology

"...
In 1999, Nicholas Christenfeld and his colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, uncovered evidence suggesting that a person's initials might affect perhaps the most important aspect of their life - the moment of their death. Using a large, computerised database of death certificates, they identified people whose initials formed a positive-sounding word (such as A.C.E., H.U.G. and J.O.Y.), and those that had very negative connotations, like P.I.G., B.U.M. and D.I.E. Using factors such as race, year of death and socio-economic status as controls, the researchers discovered that men with positive initials lived approximately four and a half years longer than average, whereas those with negative initials died about three years early.Women with positive initials lived an extra three years, although there was no detrimental effect for those with negative initials. Further analysis suggested that those with negative initials were especially likely to die from psychological causes, such as suicides and self-inflicted accidents...."

Cell phone secrets

From David Pogue - a technology columnist for New York Times:

"(P.S. ... As longtime Pogue's Posts readers know, my biggest cellular pet peeve is the endless recording you hear when you reach someone's voicemail: "To page this person, press 2 now. You may leave a message at the tone. When you finish recording, you may hang up. Or press 5 for more options" - and so on.
At the conference, I asked one cellular executive if that message is deliberately recorded slowly and with as many words as possible, to eat up your airtime and make more ARPU for the cell carrier. I was half kidding - but he wasn't fooling around in his reply: "Yes."
The secret's out.)"

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Woman runner-up in one-horse race

BBC NEWS UK England Cambridgeshire Woman runner-up in one-horse race

"A grandmother won second prize in a cake-baking contest at a fete, only to discover she was the only entrant. "
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"'About 11 years ago I entered a show with some fruit scones. I was the only entrant but I came third." '"