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Gotta see this one. Great cast! Dude is back.
“…a typical rider will come into the Tour de France carrying around seven percent body fat – a slim woman is around 20 percent – which drops to about four by the end of three-week endurance race.”
“If a stage has three big climbs, we’d expect riders to burn off anything between 8,000 to 10,000 calories [...]
Montana drinks the most. Utah is at the opposite end of the scale. There’s a surprise. The original image is here <link>
”Treat offsides as more encouraging than corners.”
This surprising conclusion of “The Fink Tank” from The Times goes against every football fan’s desire to cheer a corner and groan an offside. Daniel Finkelstein writes that, “…the teams that get the most corners only won 40.5% of the time. While there is a 42% chance of winning the match [...]
I’ve written previously about how hard it is to be original. So I can safely copy this lovely piece of prose. Thanks noquedanblogs <link>.
Thanks Martin Klasch. <link>
The daily stat from Harvard Business Publications throws up some thought provoking numbers and juxtapositions. This week I’ve learned that – the US exports lots of chicken feet to China; nearly one third of people who purchased homes in the US in the past five year have “under water” mortgages; and that if I had [...]
Man has lived beside the Mediterranean since the 4th Millennium BC. The first mosquito was no doubt sitting in the marshy backwaters waiting for him and her; and the first tourist was already on their way.
Then it was bite, slap, hit.
For six thousand years man has been exerting effective natural selection on Mediterranean mosquitoes with [...]
British Airway’s cost cutting has certainly reached the smallest room on the plane. It wasn’t as shiny as the loo paper of my youth (circa Burnside High School in the mid-70s) but what BA supplied on the flights between London and Seattle this week certainly wasn’t Andrex. I expect the people who travelled closer to the pilot had a softer [...]
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My Twitterfeed- geoff_bilbrough: Live Mesh just chewed a folder of stuff somehow
- geoff_bilbrough: C'mon laptop. WORK!!!!
- geoff_bilbrough: Tell the world how much you weigh with twitter-equipped bathroom scales http://tinyurl.com/yc49l5x
- geoff_bilbrough: the connection from Singapore to London is v v slow today - the bits aren't keen on London weather or something
- geoff_bilbrough: RT @Armano Chrysler re-designs their mark http://twurl.nl/4z16wc
- geoff_bilbrough: in Singapore office deleting email so I can send and receive again
- geoff_bilbrough: Singapore here I come
- geoff_bilbrough: argh - gotta go and catch a plane - hope the second half is on somewhere in Terminal 3 #rugby #allblacks
- geoff_bilbrough: knock on #rugby
- geoff_bilbrough: the pitch is shocking #rugby #allblacks
- geoff_bilbrough: 3-3 reflects the game
- geoff_bilbrough: more kicking than I expected from these two teams #rugby #allblacks
- geoff_bilbrough: typical start; home side come out firing and then one of then teams kicks a penalty #rugby #allblacks
- geoff_bilbrough: the millenium stadium pitch is cutting up already #rugby #allblacks
- geoff_bilbrough: must be half-term, the Tube was empty
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