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xkcd: Frequency.

57 maps that will challenge what you thought you knew about the world.

The Olympics Deserve Souvenirs as Classy as These

“His greatest joy was to know that inside that building, up the steps from the main concourse, on the right, was a hall that in 2004 was named after him. It is a wide, low, bare space with huge easterly windows, floored in pale timber and with a ceiling of folded concrete beams that seem to hover lightly, bathed in reflections from the sea. The Utzon Room is exactly what he dreamed of; and it is also the only room yet built exactly to his plans.”

John Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House

I’m a great fan of the theory of 10,000 hours makes an expert.

Here’s a lovely way of saying the same thing.

THE GAP by Ira Glass on Vimeo.

I have to hope and believe that in the interests of everyone, on day, in the near future, these people are shown for what they really are. Fiction writers.

“We have NO interest for England, NO coaches for England, NO meetings with journalists.”

 

13 reasons why I am taking the Daily Mail to the Press Complaints Commission | British InfluenceBritish Influence.

Blood & Oil on Vimeo.

Blood & Oil from Cale Glendening on Vimeo.

Lovely!