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  • Scientists create animals that are part-human – Stem Cell Research – MSNBC.com: “On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.” Agh! The very concept of a sheep with a human

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  • Was meant to be living frugally and doing freelance. Was sat at desk, attempting freelance, hours after a work. An evil Alan whispered sweet nothings in my ear, and I found myself whisked away in a Jag to a land of chips, pie and poker, where I lost all my money and had my allergies

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  • Thirty Oxford students hurt in May Day leap into shallow river: “As 8,500 students gathered on the bridge to listen to the traditional dawn choir, more than 100 people, some still wearing formal ball gowns and dinner jackets from the previous evening’s May Ball, clambered over the fencing, But most were unaware that the Cherwell,

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  • Suspended animation becomes a reality? “Let’s continue with the science fiction theme I seem to have developed over the past few weeks. First we had The Black Hole and then Journey to the Center of the Earth. Now, a group in Seattle, WA, has published a report in Science this week, with the remarkable discovery

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  • The Time Traveler Convention – May 7, 2005: “The Time Traveler Convention May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (events start at 8:00pm) East Campus Courtyard, MIT” From Jonty.

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  • Hayseed Dixie World Service – Put Your Lips On This! Classic music being done to death by hicks… I love it. Also see Quiet Street for classic String Quarter cross-overs.

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  • I’m going mad. I get back from San Fran, tanned, fit and healthy, and the first thing Bath does to me is send a team of shitting pigeons. Now my tasty cord jacket, nostalgic battered rucksack and perma-borrowed laptop have been visited by the ghost of Jackson F*cking Pollock. And sitting at my desk, I

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  • I’m sure I was going to say something fundamentally important and meaningful, indicative of long term social change. Or it could have been a eulogy to Santa Monica, now up there in my favest cities ever! But I can’t remember. So, to allay my worries about lack of travel insurance, the terrors of intestacy (No

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  • Adventures in Alternate Realities. I was sat in my flat, having just reinstalled Planescape Torment (oh, how I hunger for it now with only World of Warcraft on my desktop) when my mate Toller phoned to say he’d been intending to pass through Bath, but the trains were fucked so could he please kip on

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