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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses

We're going to Chicago for a long weekend. Plans are to visit the Field Museum and see Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and visit the Shedd Aquarium. Hubby is also taking me to visit The Fold, I'm excited! I have budget to spend from my failed attempt

Addiction, thy name is Lego

Hello, my name is Ali and I'm addicted to the Lego Star Wars game on the XBox 360. The first four levels are complete and I have everyone on the Millennium Falcon en route to the wreckage of Alderaan. I'm not solving all the puzzles and

LHC damaged

BBC News: Hadron Collider halted for months. The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be out of action for at least two months, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) says. Part of the giant physics experiment was turned off for the weekend while engineers probed a magnet failure. But

Loose threads

I have a misbehaving plot bunny. It arrived all enthusiastic with a NaNoWriMo 2008 t-shirt on, and now it's just loafing around and not contributing to anything. I have a great bad guy with a cool back story and an actor lined up to play him (David Anders

Dragon eggs

If they get enough clicks and visits, they should hatch. I like the look of the orange one.

Christmas is coming

I used to hate the smug people that got all their Christmas shopping done by October, until I moved to the US and had to be one of them. The last mailing date for parcels to the UK sent by sea used to be some time in October. Sea mail

Autumn Knitty

The autumn Knitty is out! It was up, it went down, it got back up again... First, the patterns. Waves of Grain is a beaded lace scarf pattern that might be perfect for my Wollmeise. Anne Shirley is nice, but for some other yarn. The 1840 Nightcap would be a

Not dead yet

BBC News: 'Big Bang' experiment starts well Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang. They have fired a beam of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the the Large Hadron

Particle smashing

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) goes live at Cern this week! A hundred metres below France and Switzerland it will be smashing particles together at high energy levels using a 27km ring of superconducting magnets kept at -271C. Particle energies will be up to 7TeV, for a head-on collision of

The Brain and the Internet

There have been a few news and magazine articles recently about how the internet may be changing how we think, affecting our focus, even re-wiring our brains. I got wondering about this, and an older article about Asperger's syndrome and the Autism spectrum, and it ended up as

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