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Vox Hunt: Puppy Power!

2008-06-30T17:37:57Z

Show us a puppy. If you can remember this, wave your walking stick. [Watches with amusement as people of a certain age hum and look wistful while the juniors look on.] Next, an early Canada Day (Yay, eh?) treat: the incomparable Jane Siberr...

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Vox Hunt: Sixth Grade Serenade

2008-06-28T10:21:37Z

Share a song you listened to in 6th grade. It was an even-numbered year, and that meant another posting to a different base, a thousand miles or so from the last one. We moved during the summer vacation, and when we arrived, there wasn't a house...

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In the future, TV will be all around

2008-06-22T10:14:48Z

This is nifty. Click the play button, then click and drag the mouse anywhere in the picture. They do this by combining up to 11 video streams, filmed using a camera head with the lenses arranged in a geodesic pattern (like a soccer ball). More ...

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To boldly go where others have already been

2008-06-21T15:57:30Z

This is for Mark. Alternative 3 was a "documentary" aired in the UK in June 1977, 31 years ago (a strike meant it wasn't aired on its planned date of -ahem!- early April). This segment was included near the end of the programme, and is "footage...

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JK Rowling at Harvard: Failure and Imagination

2008-06-13T17:40:53Z

JKR gave the commencement address at Harvard last week: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination. Nothing much for PotterFans - although the opening joke probably gave a few Trembling Uptights apoplexy - but she has a coup...

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Sunset over the suburban forest

2008-06-09T21:06:09Z

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The Thorn Birds

2008-06-07T16:01:20Z

[grins at the collective groan from the neighbourhood] I was pottering down at the end of the garden, as you do, and while trying to tune out the sound of one of the neighbour's kids practising The Last Post on a trumpet, I gradually became awa...

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Prime location

2008-06-02T08:06:04Z

The secret of good hunting is picking the right spot to wait. Under a street light is good, for example. If you look closely, you can see "the one that got away" in the lower left.

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Insert Tabby into Slot-A

2008-06-01T16:31:25Z

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Shake it like a Polaroid picture

2008-06-01T16:27:26Z

or perhaps it's more a case of C'mon let's twist again Like we did last summer... These two rooks were drying out after a moderate downpour this afternoon. (You'll note that the sky is slate grey again.) Photographic (& confessional) footnot...

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