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"Introducing WildCat" (Watch on YouTube)

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Amusement of the morning

(via a friend on Facebook, nearly two weeks ago. I'm trawling through my email at the moment, and have it down from 300 mails in my inbox to 235)

Okay. When, exactly, did we get Auton pop stars?

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via eduard_green (again, about two weeks ago - down to 213 emails in my backlog now)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-2-2010

• Scientific research leads to excitable headline, followed by more balanced artlcle. (and possible end of common cold)
  (tags: science virus media)
• Unhear it - the cure whatever is currently earworming you.
  (tags: music song funny)
• Family leap from building to escape "the devil". I would love to know what the fuck happened here.
  (tags: france wtf)
• What if Beethoven had composed Darth Vader's theme?
  (tags: music star_wars starwars video)
• 50,000 people are paying for a monthly subscription to electronic versions of The Times.
  (tags: uk newspapers media)
• Arkansas school board member officially resigns over anti-gay post. Inching slowly into the future...
  (tags: bigotry usa lgbt)
• What the fuck has Obama done so far?
  (tags: BarackObama obama funny)
• People who exercise catch less colds
  (tags: exercise disease fitness health)
• First official HTML5 tests topped by...Microsoft
  (tags: browser html5 microsoft)
• The Walking Dead - not progressive about women. (At least not in the first episode)
  (tags: feminism zombies TheWalkingDead)
• Android Becomes Top Mobile Operating System in U.S., No. 2 Worldwide
  (tags: android mobile mobile_phones)
• Dolphins using touch-screens to communicate. Have yet to express gratitude for the fish.
  (tags: dolphins technology)
• iPhone bug causes alarms to fail after Daylight Savings Time kicks in.
  (tags: time iphone)
• Tax evasion, tax avoidance, and tax mitigation in the UK. I hadn't grasped the difference between the last two before...
  (tags: tax uk government law)
• The calorie - not actually that useful a measure.
  (tags: energy fat food bbc health)
• Alcohol more harmful than heroin, crack cocaine
  (tags: drugs harm science)
• Apparently rising air passenger taxes will put people off flying. Um, isn't that the point?
  (tags: tax flight uk society)
• Apparently The Walking Dead TV series is awesome. Warning: full of spoilers.
  (tags: TheWalkingDead tv reviews)