Listening: lots of podcasts
Reading: Persuasion by Jane Austen
News of the Day:
- Touching. Mathematicians cry too.
- The secret life of bees: they can see iridescent colors invisible to humans.
- 100 pretty cool things we learned in 2008, including purple carrots, lions in the Tower of London, sinking pears, pigs' fear of dirt, rice gods, desert dust, ammo-toting bears.....
- A baby is delivered...on an international flight to Boston. Watch here.
- £3m car discovered in a garage. Happy New Year!
- Shop owner opens store for Boxing Day, sans employees. Pay by honesty box. Does it work?
- Exercise equipment powered by human sweat. Yum.
- The electronic sound of 2009.
- Fascinating. Sir Bernard Spilsbury - Britain's first forensic scientist.
- Why Obama's nipples matter. Come now, Globe and Mail.
- Philip Glenister - HERO.
"Why don't I like you?"
"Because you think I'm an ass. And I'm not really; I'm just British, and well, you're not."
Beard Talk:
A couple weeks ago, I think Scott Mills had a segment on beards, as in hot beards v quick! shave the motherf*r off beards. I forgot who made their list of notables but I'm pretty sure they omitted the entire Robin Hood crew. So I'll render a verdict and that is the whole gang passes, including Keith Allen's Sheriff. It must be said that Jonas Armstrong's (Robin) can get overgrown, to the point that you could braid it and pin ribbons into it. Harry Lloyd's (Will Scarlett) 'stache is borderline child molester creepy but saved by Lloyd's charm. All beat out Prince William.
