John Green talks about it often

Look up ant cordyceps, learn how some fungus can move around, and then have trouble sleeping for a few days.

I love the ambiguity of what you’re supposed to throw in the river

This was a breath of fresh air during the doom scrolling

I’m enjoying Connect

Great time to buy an F1 team

Just in case, it’s a reference to the Sun newspaper “winning” the election for Tony Blair’s New Labour government

It’s Charlie in France

We’ve got a bunch of plant food sachets in the junk drawer.

Use lasers to create bubbles in large chunks of glass. Duplicate a few times on a few far flung continents, including Arctic/Antarctica.

I’m going to have to numb you.

Num num num num num num.

Milkdrop in winamp works fine. I’ve wired up Spotify to line in before to make winamp create a visualisation from it.

And a variety of things on top of that

Margaret Thatcher was famous for working all the time and only sleeping a few hours a night.

It was the only way to secure cash from the funding agency. The philosopher had a track record of winning projects, and “emeritus” in their title, so everyone is forced to hang around with them in order to continue their livelihoods.

For some reason the project proposal also includes the funding of two post grads to interview other post grads on the importance of poetry written in that time period.

Applications are being written for a follow on project to ask local residents if they feel more or less royalist every 6 months for the next 4 years.

Important hyphenated.

CSS is a strange language too

I wonder how this affects marketplaces such as eBay and Facebook. Doesn’t seem like they’d be able to police every single trade on there.

That’s not really how index trackers work

I can’t help but do this myself. Otherwise it drives me mad if I can’t remember where I know what guy from.

Like a silent disco, including with the sticky floors and general awkwardness of it all.