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In the news

Rubbish British chocolate in danger of becoming even more rubbish

Sadly, I don't have the writing panache of the staff at The Daily Mash so I won't elaborate.

I now return you to your regular programming

The Big Bang Theory has found its feet again. After a few rather mediocre and puerile episodes, last night's was brilliant (starring Leonard's mother). Yay.

This was the last US show I regularly follow this year. Everything else has either finished (SoA, Dexter) or is on break until the New Year which means I won't be missing anything while in the land of slow internet (my parents' house). I'll miss the next bit of End of Time but that will be on iplayer and Merlin finishes this Saturday. I'm sure someone will torrent Statuesque (the Neil Gaiman silent short starring AFP and Bill Nighy on Sky1 Christmas Day).

Bed now.

[AFP fans]

Amanda Palmer will be back in London (Bush Hall) in April: 23/24/25th.
Tickets go on sale this Friday. Anyone?

For the Tom Waits (and NASA and animation) fans

Heh

The DwarvesSwiss have dug too deep.
No, not the LHC for once.
Thanks to cmpriest for the link.

Heh

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I can't decide what's better about this shot. The poor poor sod who will most likely feel humiliated (and be mocked for all eternity) or the photographer who managed this once in a lifetime shot. The whole thing can't have lasted more than a few seconds so to spot it and pinpoint it that accurately is one hell of an achievement (or just dumb luck). It's not just a crop of a wide shot, there is some serious shallow DOF in this shot so the subject was deliberately picked out. I assume the tog wanted to do a fancy shot with one of the plumes in focus and just got lucky that the one he picked turned around the wrong way. The whole shot is framed perfectly so I doubt very much it was such a quick snapshot.