February 2011
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“Christine Finn, a British archaeologist, investigated the durability of everyday...”
– Joe Moran: On junk.
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“As it stands, a full switch over to new stock and the beginning of the process...”
– The end of the ‘67 stock on the Victoria line is nigh, according to The Status of the Underground Upgrades at London Reconnections. I’m surprised it’s happening so soon: I’d assumed I’d get one last ride the next time I was in London, but unless that’s much sooner...
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“Rather than being another rehash of X-Men or some other comic book yarn, Misfits...”
– Emily Asher-Perrin makes an interesting case in her post, Happy-Slapping Hoodies with ASBOs and Superpowers: Misfits and Teenage Culture. Worth a read (although as with gurudad’s review, it does give away some of the plot points of the first season).
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“It has the flavour of an anarchist X-Men drawn by a pissed Banksy. If you missed...”
– Gurudad: Misfits: the ASBO X-men*. See, it’s not just me? He’s right about Sherlock, too (although that’s a post for another time).
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On Misfits
As an introduction and a disclaimer, it’s probably worth mentioning that I first heard about Misfits at work. Six to Start, my then employer, were pitching for the work of being the online companion to a series that I’m pretty sure was described at some point as “Heroes but with ASBOs”. (Minor spoilers for season one follow.)
Like in Heroes, the characters end up with...
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“The best way I ever heard it put was by a professor at Cambridge… He said that...”
– Gaby Darbyshire of Gawker, in Tatler (via)
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“Upkeep of centuries-old buildings is an enormous drain for European institutions...”
– Doreen Carvajal in a New York Times story, European Arts Institutions Learn to Raise Money.
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The Mice Problem
Animated GIFs from this article on “the mice problem, also called the beetle problem”, at Wolfram Mathworld (via britta).
