None of us got stuck but it’s probably because of my skeptical influence 😉 no subliminal messages just suggestion nice trick #derrenbrown
Category: Microblog
Just my day to day ramblings!
Obsessive following disorder
I try to keep a nice equilibrium of people/feeds I am following on Tumblr/Twitter/Reader so I have just enough to read each day but not too many that I have to miss some updates.
I can’t help but think that you’re supposed to just accept that things will go by unread, and skip them. But I just can’t do that; if I find that I have not checked Tumblr in a long time then I will go through every page and read each item.
Am I doing it wrong? Being too obsessive?
“Well, science doesn’t know everything.” Well, science knows it doesn’t know anything, otherwise it would stop… But just because science doesn’t know everything doesn’t mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairytale most appeals to you.
Dara O’Briain
? And though I’ll think of you, I guess, until the day I die; I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by… ? ?
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are both fantastic, as usual. A very dark and dismal nineteenth century England is contrasted by the brilliant songs and subtle comedy, adding to the atmosphere to make it a very enjoyable watch. I cannot stop listening to the soundtrack — it is wonderful.
5 Stars
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
Louis Theroux is just fantastic. If you’ve not seen his “weird weekends” series I definitely recommend watching it on Dave.
Andrew: Shauny, did you know that the Firefox logo is actually a little fox?
Shaun: How did you not notice this before??
Traumatic Insemination
Traumatic insemination, also known as hypodermic insemination, is the mating practice in some species of invertebratesin which the male pierces the female’s abdomen with his penis and injects his sperm through the wound into her abdominal cavity. The sperm diffuse through the female’s hemolymph, reaching the ovaries and resulting in fertilization. The process is detrimental to the female’s health. It creates an open wound which impairs the female until it heals, and is susceptible to infection. The injection of sperm and ejaculatory fluids into the hemocoel can also trigger an immune reaction in the female. (via Shane Vigil)
And some people believe God divinely created this utterly barbaric method of copulation? Or did it evolve?
“I now have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. I wouldn’t be here without such generosity,” an emotional Jobs told the audience, exhorting them to all become organ donors
Steve Jobs
Having a great time!!
Breakfast at Jacey’s with Andrew’s parents, then going to a wedding!
Derren Brown is a really good performer! Also a proud skeptic, atheist and gay man 🙂
Posting my old phone to Mazuma and the alarm keeps going off inside the bag! I wonder if Royal Mail will think it’s a bomb :-
Obviously Derren Brown did not “predict” the lotto numbers. He showed them AFTER they were announced. It was a trick. A good one though!
Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… The argument is simple. I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religious document. Indeed, I can make an even stronger statement. Whenever people have used religious documents to make detailed predictions about the physical world they have been famously wrong.
Neil Tyson
We have the new Sky+ HD guide and it is, indeed, awesome.
Funny how I completely disregard that old “dead tree” book now that I’m back in the UK. Putting iPhone down and curling up with a good book.
The Sixth Sense
Sometimes heart warming, sometimes heart stopping, this supernatural chiller is fascinating to watch and you just have to watch it again after the big reveal.
4 stars
Playing catch-up
I am desperately trying to read everything in my Google Reader—trying to catch up on everything while I was away for two weeks.
Most sane people would probably hit “mark all as read” and carry on. But I cannot do this: there is some driving force that makes me need to read them all, as if I will miss out on something.
The blogs and news has been fantastic, as usual, but I could probably have skipped a vast majority of it and been no worse off.
