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New: 1. How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny 2. How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet 3. American Savage by Dan Savage 4. A Tale for the ...

I was surprised to see the number of people who were promoting Earth Hour by live-tweeting it, i.e by tweeting during actual Earth Hour. T...

Hi Carolyn . I've written and re-written this entry. I can't stop compulsively eating at work (where a lot of unhealthy snacks ...

Both these questions are from this Savage Love column : I have a slowly terminal disease and don't have more than five or six years l...

My 35th birthday is coming up about a month from now. I don’t have much in the way of family and friends to celebrate with (we are new t...

Steve Paikin's blog post on the difficulties The Agenda has been experiencing with getting female guests has been getting a lot of atte...

In last week's Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson spent a day renovating some office space that needed to be renovated (sending away the ...

Sometimes I'm proofreading a translation or looking back at an old blog post, and I'm  shocked to discover that I typed "their...

Walking home today, I saw a lady walking two dogs on a patch of grass near my building, and another lady started yelling out the window at h...

- As you may have expected, I'm disappointed that they didn't show us Edith's pregnancy and time in Geneva.  There's so much...

New books: 1. Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey by Emma Rowley 2. The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II by Charles Glass 3. B...

I've recently had some curious computer behaviour that appear loosely related to my video card+external monitor  combination.  I have n...

When I first saw the Dexter TV series, I thought Michael C. Hall was too attractive for the role of Dexter. I've been reading the Dexter...

1. Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is good for degriming shower tiles Based on the colour, the grime seemed to be related to my hair conditioner, a...

As I've mentioned before , my stress levels have been really low (and quite often zero) since I started working from home.  However, my ...

From The Ethicist : My emergency unit handled a man who had been shot in the leg in the early hours of the morning. The trauma surgeons r...

Spoilers:   This post contains spoilers for Downton Abbey up to Season 4, Episode 6 (i.e. the one with the pigs).  However, I haven't wa...

I previously blogged about how Google's Verbatim search function would be more useful if they showed the number of results. I just fi...

When they cancelled Google Reader, I wrote : Google Reader and iGoogle are my primary gateways to the internet, and now Google has canc...