Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

a-ha’s “Take On Me”, played by North Korean accordion group

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2012

Incoming from Jacques: In case you’ve never encountered this. I’m told by a friend-of-a-friend on FB that: “Apparently a member of a-ha went there (cant remember why) and took a CD. Within three days the group came up with this arrangement. They had no sheet music or anything other than the CD to work off.” Obviously, I haven’t [...]

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Recursive self destruction

By 6000 | 6000 | February 7, 2012

I loved Charlie Brooker’s column in Guardian this past weekend, detailing what came to pass when that bast… ion of quality journalism and long-time favourite newspaper of this blog, the Daily Mail, published a story alleging that right-wingers are less intelligent than left-wingers. Despite their disclaimer, labelling the study as “controversial”, what followed – as Brooker points [...]

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The Worst Idea Larry Ever Had™

By 6000 | 6000 | February 6, 2012

When you move your entire life 6000 miles… from home, it can be a bit of a wrench. And that’s putting it mildly. Uprooting yourself and everything else from all that is near, dear and known to you and transplanting it to somewhere way, way out of your comfort zone is no fun – despite [...]

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Who’s Your Favourite?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 31, 2012

It’s a silly question for any parent dad to ask, but Maddie’s daddy just had to ask it, didn’t he? Just for the record, I have never asked either of my kids this. The answer would probably be too depressing or would put me (and them) in a very dangerous situation at home. Safety first…

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Neutron Star Facts

By 6000 | 6000 | January 30, 2012

I love science, me. But I struggled to get my head around this particular bunch of facts about Neutron Stars, which I happened across. As you do. A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 millilitres) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×1012 kg, (5 500 000 000 000 kg) about 900 times the [...]

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