Includes 1F63B, 'smiling cat face with heart-shaped eyes'

Yet more UUP leadership commentary

More UUP leadership commentary

UUP leadership election commentary (it's tomorrow)

sane and sensible.

As Dorothy Parker said on being told of the death of Calvin Coolidge, 'How can they tell?'

...or rather, why the EU doesn't do that as well as perhaps it could

Notes on finding a job (and other things too)

Lee Reynolds references an older post about Ulster Unionists

Parsley references my recent post about Ulster Unionists

Excellent commentary - transferable to many situations.

Lest we forget

Judging by the newspaper coverage, successful A-Level students are mainly female and cute.

I don't know if this is genuine but it's too good not to share

Charles Darwin on marriage (hat-tip to Steve)

Nate Silver talks sense

Nate Silver talks even more sense

Snufkin as the Mad Hatter?

SPIEGEL: So the Human Genome Project has had very little medical benefits so far? Venter: Close to zero to put it precisely. SPIEGEL: You stored a code in the genome of this cell. Has anyone decoded it? Venter: Yes, it is the first genome in the world to include an e-mail address. So far, 50 scientists have cracked the code and answered us. SPIEGE…

notes on website design

The gateway to hell

Not sure about the data - Sharaz Jek surely only in one story? - but a neat idea

"What could have been an excellent dining experience (good food, wonderful location) spoiled by dismal service and unhelpful staff. Having called ahead and been told that there was no need to book... we had to flag down a waiter after twenty minutes for our order to be taken... no effort to serve the right dish to the right person... painfully obv…

Spanish football team captain being interviewed by his TV journalist girlfriend sweeps her up into a tremendous kiss at the end. (You already saw this, didn't you?)

Isn't there something rotten about how Europe throws a pittance at the poor, while it empties the seas of their homeland?

To peruse later

When I remember the Twelfth of my childhood years, I see the banners of the Orange Lodges appearing, tops first, from the south side of Finaghy Railway Bridge, and rising up to the hump of it like the sails of galleons in a summer breeze.

I didn't feel unsafe, because I was surrounded by happy, high-spirited (I am using ``high-spirited'' in the sense of ``high'') people, many of them wearing brightly colored wigs made from what appeared to be toxic waste, which is formal attire for soccer fans. Many of them -- especially middle-aged men -- also had their national flags draped over …

Fantastic idea - encouraging your own positive thinking