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A near-death experience and made-up fluff
The author of the definitive biography of Canadian prog-rockers Rush is featured in this post! It doesn't get better than this, you're thinking. Three weeks without a post! You must have been worried...
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Show me the remuneration
I know not everyone had wine but we're still five Euros short Justin Webb tweeted from Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday morning: Can’t talk simple this am: pay becomes renumeration and softness...
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Five things I learned from Google Ngram
Note: I promised that I’d ask Richard Stallman if I had represented his ideas correctly. Turns out I hadn’t. I have pasted his response in the comments section below. It’s a fascinating debate, and...
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i no your gunna like dis
Thanks to talknormalist The Finch for this page of Facebook spelling and grammar errors, and the excellent putdowns that result. The moral: time spent spellchecking is time well spent. Another moral:...
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Three principles of Talknormalism
Evidently I am still getting the hang of the whole motivation thing Delighted as I am to be mentioned in the Observer yesterday, I worry that some readers might get the idea that I am a grumpy negative...
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Golden Crocoduck fever grips Talk Normal
Why post this clip? Because Sunday is a very important day for Talknormalists: it’s the day on which the annual Golden Crocoduck Award is announced. This is given by Peter Hadfield, also known as...
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Nate Silver’s numbers game
Nate Silver: hard to believe this man is a statistician For the second US election in a row, the winner is a guy called Nate Silver, who might be the future of intelligent journalism. He rescues us...
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