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The female of the species

Amy Winehouse

My Amy Winehouse pictures get favourited a lot on Flickr. Mostly by women. Does Amy, like Sinead, scare the hell out of most boys?

Separated at birth

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Watching this week’s House I was surprised by the likeness between these two actors, though D.B. Sweeney looks very different from Stephen Rea in his (younger) IMDB profile picture.

Torrential trouble

Dammit, with tvtorrents.tv and btefnet.net (even #bt on IRC is invite only at the moment) offline, where’s a leech to go for a dedicated TV torrent source other than Usenet?

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Show me the way to…

I think I must have missed something, somewhere.But why is Tony Christie at number 1 in the British charts?

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You know, that band? With that singer?

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

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Wanted: shipping advice

I’m looking to ship about 50 books and some t-shirts from Dublin to Amsterdam. I’m told surface shipping is the cheapest, but I contacted a company and got quoted £390. Does anyone have any experience in this?

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