This was never going to end well, was it? Half-expecting something of Alien Autopsy proportions, I was quite disappointed that it fell apart so soon.

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What I’ve been reading today, courtesy of del.icio.us. View my network here.

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With just 365 (or so) days in any given year, the probability of two similar things happening on the same date is perhaps not so great. But, as this screengrab from the BBC’s On This Day archive feature shows, sometimes a kind of reverse serendipity can be at work, where tragic events from the past are echoed by unfortunate events from the present.

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What I’ve been reading today, courtesy of del.icio.us. View my network here.

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No, not the title of a spam email, but what the words and graphics tool Wordle makes of the categories of this blog.

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Found this today while out geocaching, caught in the hedgerow in a farmer’s field just south of Cottered in Hertfordshire. The balloon (which had been yellow) was in shreds but still attached.

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Puzzle-solving of all kinds is a major leisure activity for the management of this blog. And, having finally cracked a particularly awkward local puzzle cache after several months of trying, it’s time for a new challenge.

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What I’ve been reading today, courtesy of del.icio.us. View my network here.

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Today we are celebrating a momentous date - it’s 08/08/08, an occurrence we could not let pass unremarked. And it has the added advantage of working out whether you’re using the civilised British formula or the utterly counterintuitive American one ;- ))

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Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler is an unlikely source of very silly jokes. However, when his turn to compose the nightly viewers’ taster email comes around (a task not all his fellow presenters can bring themselves to undertake) he includes a quote of the day and a Joke Fit for a 12-year-old.

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