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Thank you for calling Quantum Tea. All of our operatives are currently assisting other customers. Please listen to the full menu as our options have recently changed. If you know your party's email address, you can contact them at any time during this message. To speak with an

Book review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The text for Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is in the public domain, which means people can pick it up, put in a storyline about zombies, and totally revamp one of my favourite classics. And I love it! It is a truth universally acknowledged that a

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Big Life Drama = blog silence. And as dramas go, this one is a doozy. Have had no spare brainpower to think, let alone write. Good stuff is happening, and the dust will settle in a couple of months. I'll be in Memphis next week for company training. Possibly

Writing by hand

BBC News: The slow death of handwriting. Christmas cards, shopping lists and what else? The occasions in which we write by hand are fewer and fewer, says Neil Hallows. So is the ancient art form of handwriting dying out? A century from now, our handwriting may only be legible to

Visiting Caveland

Met up with Pat and Jodi to go and see Caveland in Festus. The place is for sale on eBay, and it's a house built in a cave. There are many photos on the Caveland website of the building process. This is the outside, from the top of

Bards in the Bog

BBC News: Poetry aims to set bog standard. A competition has been launched to find poetry which will feature in the toilets of Shetland. Six poems will be selected every three months to go on display in all leisure centre toilets and at other locations. The Bards in the Bog

Technoslang

BBC News: Don't be 404, know the tech slang. A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them. For instance, "404" - the error message given when a browser cannot find a webpage - has come to mean "

The original Doctor Who

BBC News: Doctor Who (before the Tardis). Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan. The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed he journey

Call the cliché police

BBC News: 20 of your most hated clichés. The first ten are: * Basically * To be fair * To be honest * Going forward * The fact of the matter is * Let's face it * Touch base * 110% * In the pipeline * The reason being These are fairly heinous. My personal bugbear is "

Reading the dictionary

BBC News: The man who reads dictionaries. Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why? The prospect of talking to a man who

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