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Britain’s top spy is seriously ill.  No foul play, so little news really, except for the gem at the end…

“[he] is known for running a website for fans of the band The Grateful Dead”

Pardon?  I’m sure there are rules about mixing LSD and the Official Secrets Act.  Aren’t there?  Surely?

You learn something new every day, and today’s learnin’ is…

Bourne (as in The Bourne Identity) was real (kinda)

This is truly bizarre…

This time, while Eden was on a visit to Paris, he requested that France be allowed to join the British Commonwealth.

Serves him right, by the sounds of it.

Caused by the David Bowie page on Sleevenotez (am I boring you yet?)… Polydactyl cats.

I am tasked with the MusicBrainz database bit of Sleevenotez. One of the things I’m just doing is handling bands with the same name (of which, according to MusicBrainz there are 3,407 non-unique names - the most common of which is Eden, with 12 bands of that name). Anyway, while scanning the list by eye for real problems I discovered there are 2 Engelbert Humperdincks. Really. The one you would expect, and a composer from the late 19th Century. Of all the names in my non-unique list that was not one I expected.

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Huggable Urns. ‘Nuff said.

Really, I don’t.

The most popular names for twins (in the US, in 2004). Number 109 (Mya/Mia) worries me. They will really hate you for that one come their teenage years.