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PocketMod Nov 16

Via Make Blog comes PocketMod. It’s a DIY paper-based PDA. Customise which pages you want, print it out, some folds and a snip, and voilà!

My PocketMod

I chose a 2005 calendar, a week planner, a shopping list, a sudoku puzzle, a blank sudoku grid, and some note space.
Yes, I’m having a slow lunch hour.

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Moon Nov 16

Apparently there aren’t enough nice pictures on blogs. So here’s the Moon from where I work as it was late yesterday afternoon. Although my camera phone and the Eldoradoesque framing do make it look like the Sun.
The moon

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DDC highlights (2) Nov 16

These were so much fun last time, I think they may be regular feature. These come from this week’s Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

  • Longest number: Race films – 791.43652996073
  • Sexiest number: Erotic stories, Korean – 895.7300803538
  • Grossest number: Sick in motion pictures – 791.436561
  • Most out of this world: Lunar volcanoes – 551.2109991
  • Most down to Earth: Interactive whiteboards – 004.75
  • Down with the kids number: Video wrestling games – 794.86812
  • D’oh: Simpson, Homer (Fictitious character) – 741.5973
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Strange Nov 15

I have discovered a TV show being repeated. It features a lead character called Strange who investigates mysteries with a male sidekick and a female friend. It only ran for one series but was well-received and is really rather good. So I’m clearly not talking about risible Saturdatynight BBC serial Strange. Did you see what I did?

This show, from way back in 1968, is called The Strange Report and starred Anthony Quayle as criminologist Adam Strange with Anneke Wills, fresh from Doctor Who, as one of his small gang of crime solvers. Quayle’s character isn’t massively charismatic, action scenes are few and far between and the dialogue isn’t showy, but it’s tremendously watchable. It was so successful that the second series was to be made in the US; when the cast rejected the idea of spending months abroad, the show was axed.

So now you know. Set your telly box to ITV4 at 6pm on Sunday.

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