Serendipity, internet-style

Posted by Paul Raven @ 16-04-2007 in Uncategorized

Just in case you needed further proof that every now and then the internet will deliver you something to make you smile, try this:

You’re going through your RSS feeds, just the same as always, when you suddenly discover that a writer you greatly admire has accidentally stumbled upon and liked some music by a band from your local area, who you’re also rather fond of.

Gave me a little warm glow, that’s for sure. So go and have a listen to the music of The Strange Death of Liberal England - as endorsed by Warren Ellis.

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And from the chaos came order

Posted by Paul Raven @ 04-04-2006 in Uncategorized

As a teenager protesting to my mother that there was no need to tidy my room, I would often fall back on utterly fictional theories (made up on the fly by myself) that mess created its own unique form of filing system. Eventually she gave up asking, and told me that in exchange I’d be responsible for sorting out my own laundry. Seemed a good deal at the time. But what I didn’t know then is that the arguments I was using may actually have had some basis in science.

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