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  • Caddyshack

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    Favourite article of this week: Bill Murray was stopped in the early hours of the morning by police and tested for drink driving by police in Stockholm. He’d nicked a golf cart after watching the Scandinavian Masters golf tournament to drive back to his hotel. Given that the top speed of a golf cart really…

  • Excercise ‘must be tough to work’

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    Apparently people are confused about exercise and health. I’d go along with that, noticing a large number of large and slow people suddenly appearing outdoors on the cycle paths when the weather becomes pleasant. While a BBC article reports that it is unclear whether one should perform light exercise for half an hour, three times…

  • BBC Mondays

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    After headlining the affects of Friday afternoon skiving on the British economy, the BBC website today asks, “Got the Monday blues?” and offers “Another stressful week on the coalface to get through? Brighten up your day with BBC comedy clips.” So now they’re encouraging Monday morning skiving! Fair enough. BBC comedy clips online.

  • New Apple Keyboards

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    *Big girlish scream!* New brushed aluminium Apple keyboards! OK, so there’s a new aluminium iMac (what happened to consumer white vs pro alu?), new iLife, new iWorks and stuff, but just look at those keyboards! Apple link.

  • Friday feeling costs firms £50m

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    The BBC are running an article about the costs of skiving on Friday afternoons (on a Friday when a friend of mine has spent his morning sending me itinerant text messages and photos of today’s fishing trip, funnily enough). “A growing number of staff are treating the last day of the working week as an…

  • Geraint Thomas Finishes Tour

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    He’s the man! Geraint completed the Tour de France on Saturday. Awesome. He told the BBC, “Everyone dreams of riding down the Champs-Elysee and finishing the Tour, I’m happy to get here but feeling it.” “I don’t think you can imagine how hard, fast and chaotic it is out there until you actually do it.”…

  • Spying Squirrels

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    Not only have man-eating badgers been released into Iraq by the British, but apparently hi-tech squirrel (cyborg?) spies have been released by foreign intelligence services into Iran. I say “cyborg” because the translated text reads, “Fixing GPS devices, bugging instruments and advanced cameras in the bodies of trained animals like squirrels, mice, hamsters”. Hardware inside…

  • Gez Tour Photos

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    Check Flickr to see photos of Gez in his Tour de France debut. Flickr – Geraint Thomas

  • Plague of ferocious badgers?

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    Quote of the week, from UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” Full man-eating badger article (BBC News). Also, “One housewife, Suad Hassan, 30, claimed she had been attacked by one of the badgers as she slept. “My husband hurried to shoot…

  • Welsh Tour Rider

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    The 94th Tour de France starts on Saturday, and it starts in London. Freakier than that, the Tour de France – the biggest and most important cycle race in the world – will start with Geraint Thomas from Cardiff within the peleton. Crazy. Geraint used to ride with Cardiff JIF, a club I was attached…