TWTWTW*, the best of MiramarMike, 21st-27th May, 2007

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A week of silly maths, YouTube videos and iGasms with the most significant change to the blog being the addition of search which you can now add to your browser. Comments flooded in for the I have an above average number of legs posting.


Shared RSS items
A quiet week as work and real life was more hectic than normal. However, after scanning through a week's worth of poop here's the best of the rest (top posting in bold):
  1. Helping Fijian Bloggers
  2. Ever Had Your Colon “House Cleaned?” (Nov, 1934)
  3. Improv Everywhere
  4. Rumor: Google Testing Outbound Calling from Google Talk?
  5. Stephen Fry to pen script for Dambusters
  6. Lessons from Seth Godin's talk about "The Dip" in Phoenix today
  7. How to Make OpenCola
  8. DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) moves in - my own posting here
  9. What Biomedical Nerds Dream About
  10. Rugby: England too fat to win World Cup, says Fitzy

Photos
Photos uploaded for this week in May include strange ones from Jack, me and kids, cracking visit from the Adams family and yet another Zoo visit.
Not many from the shared list - asymptote, Red dawn closeup, Eastborne and Day's Bay

The two I want to share are:
Flickr: Kids and me Flickr: asymptote


Videos
I've watched a few videos including Alien Autopsy - Roswell UFO Crash (Original footage), Amazing 3D Street Art [more Julian Beever here], NASA, fake moon landings and Stanley Kubrik and loads of QI including this:


Bookmarks
And finally, two from the del.icio.us bookmarks:

* TWTWTW = That Was The Week That Was. Named after a 1960's British satirical TV programme [BBC | Wikipedia]

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