- @arrroberts reviews Agatha Christie's best-selling novel
"this novel -- not to labour the point, but a book *published in 1939* -- is precisely about an ingenious though sadistic plot to isolate a number of clever, mostly affluent but *fundamentally wicked* people on an island, and dispose of them. Warning: includes spoilers for several classic Agatha Christie stories
- UK govt "taking action to improve the Work Capability Assessment"
Struggling to pass the buck, on a good day to bury bad news.
- How would you have fared in a Victorian School?
General knowledge quiz from 1894
- Soviet board-games, 1920-1938
featuring such riveting titles as Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers: A Game for Young Pioneers.
- Go home or face arrest: billboard crackdown on illegal immigration
Good God.
- UK’s Balance of Competence Review first 6 documents look broadly sensible
Published on a day when they will be ignored...
- Jahar's World
The Rolling Stone article about the Boston bomber.
Links I found interesting for 23-07-2013
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Two fascinating links
Ancestral rivers of the world What if the Ice Ages had been less icy? (Hat-tip to [Unknown LJ tag] commenting in reply to [Unknown LJ tag].)
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Noted in passing
I am fortunate enough to read many interesting things on my friends list. Here are some of them from the last week to share with you all: John…
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A few links
Not sure how I saw the first two of these, the third is off the Dublin sector of my friends-list. Reading guide to Terry Pratchett's Discworld…
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