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The album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. It's beautiful.

Orkie and Peter's relationship is going through a bit of a rough patch right now.

First of all, there's no use trying to guilt me out of my views. My family have fought in the World Wars, too. My grandfather was a radio engineer in WWII, his father was an infantryman in WWI. I do not doubt that their contribution to the peace and order we enjoy today is an invaluable one. I...

I absolutely love my Sennheiser CX300s. They're in-ear headphones, and they sound great. They come with 3 different size rubber buds, and the bass is very rich if you get a good seal between the bud and the inside of your ear. I bought mine for £15 off Amazon.

I'm very pleased that Obama won. Not only does he seem the better figurehead and have better social policies than McCain (I can't say anything about economic policies yet), but there is indeed something highly symbolic and progressive about America voting an African-American as president. I...

I don't actually remember this thread, although I do remember that awesome toaster gif.

There are chatbots designed to manage context, although they're rarely any good at it. Jabberwacky is fun.

Irn Bru is foul and looks like jaundiced urine.

I knew there was something my phone was missing, and it was only now that I realised that it was the harmonica. Why is everything I want just a marketing campaign for Nova Scotia?

5 reasons why I love Ubuntu: 1. Frequent releases (once every 6 months) 2. Enormous community 3. Extensive software repository 4. Debian base 5. Mark Shuttleworth

What is money but words given value?

Actually, the decision (whilst incredibly short-sighted and stupid) was based on the fundamentals of capitalism. The banks wanted to make more money; the more loans banks give out, the more money they make. The mistake here was to assume that the housing bubble would continue to rise. When it...

The only thing I find peculiar about German is the need to move the verb to a certain position in the sentence depending on the words you use at the beginning (als, aber, wann). The change in article depending on the case seems sensible enough to me; a number of languages do it to denote case...

I love Dr. Pepper.

English is a very messed-up language indeed. The structure is bizarre, the way you pronounce words makes no sense ("thorough", anyone?) and we have a great propensity for irregular verbs. Compared to English, most languages are very logical. Russian is a good example. In Russian, words are...

A slightly more reliable source (a dictionary of etymology) says that golf comes from the Scottish "gouf", which is believed to be an alteration of the Middle Dutch "colf", meaning "bat" or "stick".

Record companies have tried (and failed) to shut these places down before. Some credit card companies now deny their services to them. As for their legality - were the business running here, it would certainly be illegal. As far as I'm aware, there is no legal precedent for action against...

Do you really need all of those? You must have some really, really terrible games there.

1 TB is rather a lot - the biggest consumer drives are 1.5TB, and some 2TB drives are popping up (in servers mainly). You don't get drives bigger than that simply because technology isn't good enough to get any more capacity on a platter. If you really need more than 1TB external, consider...