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Humphrey Lyttelton’s dead. Awww, man.

So… who wants to play Mornington Crescent*?

I’ll start: Roding Valley.

* Zbigniew’s Variant (1974 Iteration)

I’m pondering putting this on a t-shirt:

If you want to know what it says, read on after the jump.
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From Reuters:

It was a Black Day for love in South Korea on Monday with lonely hearts trying to ease their pain by diving head first into bowls of noodles… Black Day, on April 14, is a South Korean original. It is marked by people who have not found love dressing in dark colours and commiserating over meals of black food, with the dish of choice being Chinese-style noodles topped with a thick sauce of black bean paste.

Which is different from every day of my life how, exactly?

Flickr is a popular photo hosting and sharing site. It is really quite good. Users can either have a free account, which has limitations, or pay $25 a year for an unlimited service. A few days ago, Flickr added video hosting to the site, for paid members. This prompted outpourings of absolute rage from the paid users, at the sheer affrontery of the company in giving them an extra service at no added cost. Also, Flickr is owned by Yahoo, which Microsoft is currently trying to buy, although Yahoo is trying quite hard not to be bought by them. This also added to the users’ anger, as they criticised the Flickr staff for working for a company whose parent company might be bought by another company.

The thread in which this all gets shouted about includes this wonderful comment from somebody called “mikeossur”:

This is the new America,

Health care for the rich – only.

Shite software by MS$

1000 year war.

George Bush thinks he is king.

Flickr is a photo site.

As Speak You’re Branes would say: you are a gibbon’s minge.

As a noted chef, I am often asked: “What are the basic principles behind great cooking?” While the art of culinary excellence is obviously a complicated one, experienced cooks know that much of the accumulated wisdom of generations of kitchen magicians can be condensed into a few core precepts and processes.

To that end, I have constructed an easy-to-follow flowchart that presents all the key principles of truly exceptional cooking, in a simple and comprehensible format that can be easily understood and utilised in your home:

Interesting news, if it’s accurate:

…as of this morning, both the W&C tunnel and the Central line stairs were open one-way from the top of the DLR/Northern escalators. Seems that sense may have prevailed.

I’ve been going to Fenchurch Street in the mornings for the past few days, so don’t know if this is true, or indeed if it’ll be a permanent change. But good news if it is.

In other news, I promise I’ll write something soon that isn’t about public transport.

UPDATE: Yep, ‘s’true.