A sensible fairy-tale. Melisande by E Nesbit.

And a scary-tale. Man-size in marble, also by Ms Nesbit.

Yay, my old uni.

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Could you recognise symptoms of a stroke?

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Microsoft 'mulls Facebook stake'

Meh, I like my self-hosted WordPress. I'm only on LJ because of you lot, and once OpenID is a bit more [pdf] secure and widely used, even that won't be necessary.

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Child porn probe over art exhibit

There's a video, but it's the usual "we don't know anything and here are some of the things we don't know", which I find mildly offensive. Drive or fly a correspondent there to stand outside the building and waffle.

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UK troops 'scare Kenyan wildlife'

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Legacy of the Little Rock Nine. Good story.

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Don't let TFTD's endorsement by Tom Butler put you off. The '$100 laptop' sounds like a great toy. Woot for 'view source' key!

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Grey areas in China's one-child policy

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"A new book for travellers to China plans to make no mention of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Should travel guides tell the whole history of a place, or bow to local sensitivities?"

This story mentions Nürnberg for the reasons you'd imagine.

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[video] Skin 'lightening' cream aimed at Asians. I've never understood this. Anyone know why dark is 'bad'? Is it our (the pasty West's) fault, or does it date to before we muscled in?

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O noes freedom of socks!!1!

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Hang the Pope! What harm can it do?

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More old piccies...

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Plea to help save red squirrels

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Squee!

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Dentist in Islamic headscarf row

(I'm sniggering because... well, it's a long story, but I believe I may already know of this man. Definitely a doctor. Really.)

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Iran president in NY campus row

Rudeness on both sides. It might also be seen as unkind to bait the mentally ill.

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Squeeeeeple*melts into big puddle*

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Awesome, ladies.

And ooh, new Ressie film! I certainly can't wait to see what Miss Mary Sue Alice gets up to next in what is certain to be a monsterpiece of modern film...y...things! *grumblegrumbleJillValentinegrumble*

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Motown techniques used to develop audio encoding in order to combat quality loss over small headphones.

You can listen to two examples. There is something different between them, though my ears can't work out what it is. Anyway, fun!

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"I'm just one of those pandas..." Great shot with the kids in the background.

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Armed biker takes church donation

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"UP" IS NOT A VERB. Nor is "off". Nor is "big". And "lay" does not mean what you think it means, if you're one of these who like to abuse it in a recumbent sense.

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What religious ceremony, oh usefully-specific news reporter? I thought Chaturthi at first, but we've got that down as last Saturday.