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Hat dobbing... and Latin

Having managed luckily to avoid jail in the seven years since I started at uni, I was allowed to go back up there last Saturday and collect a free MA. This is some Cambridge scam but I'm not complaining. As my friend Alex quite rightly pointed out, because we'd already got Master of Engineering degrees when graduating the first time, surely a Master of Arts degree would make us Masters of the Universe! Most people tended to disagree.

Anyway, the whole day is about a pretty strange freemason/Priory of Sion-esque ceremony and I thought I'd demystify it with the aid of some Lego men. Maybe you're about to go through this collecting-an-MA malarky in which case let me tell you some of the tips I picked up...
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Tags: Cambridge, MA

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The Reith Lectures this year are particularly good! Listen to The Triumph of Technology.

Related: Reith Lecture

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Adverts that are fun to watch are hard to find! Here are two; that VW golf one with David Elsewhere (of Kollaboration fame) posing as Gene Kelly dancing and singing in the rain (watch and download here) and the one by Skoda with the fat gymnast doing a floor routine (download here).

See also: advert, David Elsewhere, video

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Here are some reviews of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith (UK release date May 19 2005).

Tags: Star Wars

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Chelsea crash out

Yay! Liverpool dumped Chelsea out of the Champions League on Tuesday. This post is a bit late I know... it's taken me about 48 hours to settle down from the euphoria of seeing Chelsea lose!


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Related: Chelsea, Champions League

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I've taken off my weather service from the front page but, for anyone interested in using the GlobalWeather web API, free source code showing you how to use it is available here. References to a couple of other web services (some with example code) can be found here.

See also: weather, web service, GlobalWeather

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Check Those Election Claims

Confused about the upcoming general election? This site helps check some of the claims against the facts. The questionnaire on this site tells you which party you agree with the most.

Tags: election

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When I'm 64 65

Upload a picture of yourself here and it'll transform it to show you what you'll look like 40 years from now! Scary.

Another related site is faceanalyzer.com. These guys worked out that I was an arab girl with below average intelligence... Actually I get that a lot. One of my uncles said once he thought I looked quite middle eastern...

Related: photo