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"The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey"

Just had a customer at the cinema who wished to buy tickets but had forgotten her membership card with which she could get a discount off the price. So I asked her name so that I could search the members database to find her, she replied “wily, spelt W-i-l-l-e-y.”

I thought interesting as that’s not how I’d pronounce that surname and it put me in mind of the apocryphal quote attributed to cricket commentator Brian Johnston in regards to the West Indian bowler Michael Holding.

“The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.”

And through his Wikipedia entry I find the following YouTube video of what is regarded as the best bowled over of Test cricket ever.

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To the mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy we can add Dark Flow

Mysterious New ‘Dark Flow’ Discovered in Space. “As if the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy weren’t vexing enough, another baffling cosmic puzzle has been discovered. Patches of matter in the universe seem to be moving at very high speeds and in a uniform direction that can’t be explained by any of the known gravitational forces in the observable universe. Astronomers are calling the phenomenon ‘dark flow.’ The stuff that’s pulling this matter must be outside the observable universe, researchers conclude.” [via]

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Ninja cats and dogs.

Ninja cats and dogs.

So cute and amazing!

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Happy Large Hadron Collider Day

Click through to xkcd

The Telegraph: Large Hadron Collider vital for humanity

Prof Hawking said the £4.4bn machine, in which scientists are about to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang, is “vital if the human race is not to stultify and eventually die out.”

And he sought to ease fears that the machine could have apocalyptic effects. “The world will not come to an end when the LHC turns on,” Prof Hawking said, adding: “The LHC is absolutely safe.”

Not according to this guy.

The large Hadron Collider may be a lot more sinister than has already been percieved. The LHC may be capable of making a hole in the Van Allen Belt. The Van Allen Belt protects the Earth from Cosmic rays. It also stops any living creature from leaving or entering the Earth. The LHC is a doorway for the return of Satan himself.

For the latest on whether the Earth has been destroyed by the Large Hadron Collider.

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James Bond – Quantum of Solace trailer

Daniel Craig continues to brutally kick ass as Britain’s favourite sociopath in Quantum of Solace.

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Gigantarachnophobia – fear of giant spiders

This amazing simulation of a spider is both cool and pretty creepy (you can place flies for it to scuttle over and eat).

Also it reminds me of what I think is my only phobia – the fear of giant spiders. I couldn’t find a term for it anywhere so I’ve coined Gigantarachnophobia.

I have no problem with spiders generally but once they get to be the size of a cat or larger then we enter phobia territory. Thankfully as long as I keep away from the jungle of The Congo I don’t think I’ll ever encounter a spider big enough to be scared of. And even then I don’t think the J’ba fofi as the Baka people call them really exist.

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17 Simple Rules For Going To The Cinema With Me.

17 Simple Rules For Going To The Cinema With Me. [via]

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Man on the roof in Bath city centre

A crowd has gathered outside the cinema at the moment, but unfortunately they are not here to see a film.

Instead they are looking up at the roof of a tall building near us where a man has stripped off some of his clothes and is threatening to jump.

At least I think he is threatening to jump as he is mostly shouting abuse and it’s hard to tell what he’s actually saying. The police are in attendance but the bloke doesn’t want to speak to their negotiator.

It’s all a bit ghoulish.

Update 16:31 GMT: It’s all over apparently. The police have removed the cordon they put up blocking off access to Hot Bath street and most of St. Michael’s Place. The ghouls have gone away as have the photographers and cameramen from the local media. And I no longer need to explain to virtually every single one of our customers what the hell everyone is staring at.

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Pick a lock with a bump key

Bump a Lock – Wired How-To Wiki

Also a video tutorial of how to do it.

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9.69 seconds

Usain Bolt wins the Gold medal for the men’s 100m sprint with a World record time of 9.69 seconds and if he’d had any challengers on his shoulders then he’d have run faster but instead he started celebrating his victory at least 5 meters before the line.

Phenomenal! If anything could knock Michael Phelps off the headlines of the newspapers then Usain Bolt’s 100m run I think just did.