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Making a mint

Why do people ‘coin a phrase’, but ‘mint a coin’?

Published 10-Jun-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: conversations, jen, words

Finally, someone finds a good use for a cat

Cat converted into helicopter.

Published 04-Jun-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: aircraft, art, cats, videos

Punter fodder

A list of some of the Google search requests that brought new readers to the Gruts website over the last month.

Published 04-Jun-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: admin, gruts website, searches

Jubilations!

Doodle of the Queen

Published 03-Jun-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: doodles, hats, royalty

Doc Watson (1923–2012)

One of the greats.

Published 30-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: music, rip, videos

OK, I'll give ’em that one

Marmite celebrates queen's jubilee.

Published 27-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: advertising, royalty

Apple™? Schmapple!

Fundamental flaw discovered in iPhone calculator app.

Published 26-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: apple, computers, design faults

Ambient Pap, Track 02: Sulfa

FREE: The second track from my forthcoming album.

Published 22-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ambient pap, music

Life imitates Gruts

Rebekah Brooks's sideshow.

Published 15-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: ginners, gruts website, murdoch, newspapers, politics, press

Wittgenstein's Drachenflugexperiment

W.G. Sebald on Wittgenstein flying a kite.

Published 15-May-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: germans, philosophy, sebald

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On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
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