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ladies and gentlemen,
This is to inform you that mirili, short for the miri library, is now officially open. Well, actually the town of miri, in sarawak, doesn't have an english library. Even if it did, it wasn't going to loan books to two scruffy travelers. Which is some of us have set up a literary retreat online, for the shared discussion of good books, articles, the written word. You don't ever have to whisper and membership is, of course, free.

The nobel prizes have been given out blah blah blah, but for the real contributions to society (eg having something to talk about at the water cooler, increasing your chance of winning at trivia night), see the Ignobel awards. Here's a write up on the guy who investigated exploding trousers, and another one who catalogued the odours secreted by frogs, cashew, curry, chocolate. Maybe he mistook his freddo for the real thing.

My own contribution to rising global stupidity levels: Drove to the airport to pick mum up at 1.20 in the morning. After waiting for half an hour, this was when all the trouble makers, people who had stuff confiscated were emerging, I called the house in Singapore. She answered the phone. Crap. Time slows down during moments like this, just so that you can appreciate the utter dumbness of your actions. And I had to pay $6 for parking.

The new james bond might turn out to be james blond, and the villains, i mean, critics are already out to get him (and all the other contenders).

"Daniel Craig looks just like Vladimir Putin - the wheel has come full circle."
"His eyes are way too close together - a classic sign of a Bond villain. Perhaps he's actually going to play Hugh Grant's nemesis?"
"Robbie Williams..... its about time for the first Bond musical"
"They passed up the chance to break the mould and put a woman into the role, i don't particularly care who it would have been as long they came from south london, slept around and had a gutter mouth."
"Clive Owen has the vocal impressiveness of a call centre manager from Cheam. "
"hugh grant as bond: "well, excuse me, err, look, well i'm terribly sorry, would you mind awfully putting your hands up? no? ah, well i'm err... well that is to say I'm bond, james, errr, bond, err yes."
"Come on! It's OBVIOUS: Eddie Izzard for Bond. You know it makes sense.''