Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa - Telegraph

Intrigue! Mystery! Someone is buying all of the chocolate in Europe!

I’m home sick for the second day in a row, starting to feel stir crazy. Luckily I have a Catherine Tate DVD to watch. And ice cream.

Catherine Tate Language Translator (via kickthecan2)

Saturday night we had a lovely party for Barbara & Katie’s birthdays — the wealth of different shawls and the evening air went so perfectly with the childrens’ palm reading and dancing. Magicy.

Saturday night we had a lovely party for Barbara & Katie’s birthdays — the wealth of different shawls and the evening air went so perfectly with the childrens’ palm reading and dancing. Magicy.

10 weird places your data gets stored

infoneer-pulse:

Cloud computing doesn’t really mean storing your data in a cloud: it means your stuff’s been stuck on a server in an enormous temperature-controlled room somewhere.

That doesn’t mean it has to be in a boring building, though: it could be down a mine, in something that looks like Dr Evil’s control centre or even off the coast of Suffolk.

Here are 10 weird places that data can be, will be or has been stored in.

» via TechRadar

Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds - NYTimes.com

Interesting article on the present state of Nature vs. Nurture — plus it makes me want to rewatch The Bad Seed.

持ってくるねこ。-Maru brings a toy.- (via mugumogu)

Even with the title there, this one is still full of suspense.

All flags half mast!
I’m calling in sick
With all honesty,
To reread some
H.P.
Brice, commentor from San Francisco, in response to “Harvey Pekar, Who Chronicled Ordinary Lives in ‘American Splendor’ Comics, Dies