Monthly Archives: December 2011

Occam’s Birthday! [33]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

Happy First Birthday to Occam’s Typewriter! And what a great first year it’s been! Having left Nature Network in July 2010, I was delighted when the December 9th, 2010 birth of our very own blogging network reunited me with my … Continue reading →

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First Anniversary [21]

Posted on 9 December 2011 by Stephen

A year ago today Occam’s Typewriter made its debut on the blogosphere and I published my first post at the new home of Reciprocal Space. It’s been a good twelve months. OT has established itself as a home thoughtful and … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday to us!

Posted on 9 December 2011 by rpg

We’re 1 today!

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The sun ain’t gonna shine any more [8]

Posted on 7 December 2011 by rpg

Giant Rabbit Eats Northern UK

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Third Annual VWXYNot? Readers’ Choice Comment of the Year Award!

Posted on 7 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

So as regular readers know, every Friday, more or less, I choose my favourite comments from this blog (and my favourite posts I’ve read on other blogs), and list them in the sidebar under the title Bragging Rights Central. In … Continue reading →

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Fountainous

Posted on 7 December 2011 by Henry Gee

While we’re on the subject of holiday reading, I am informed by one Ian Whates, scholar, gentleman, SF author and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, publisher of the SF anthology Fables from the Fountain, that sales so far have raised a … Continue reading →

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Don’t look now, but…

Posted on 7 December 2011 by Richard Wintle

… I won something! Clearly those allegedly inherited behavioural traits that lead to my questionable sense of humour have paid off. By way of celebration, here’s a picture of a grinny alien, who looks almost as happy as I am.

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Patterns

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Being another excerpt from my gestating tome The Beowulf Effect, written today between Liverpool Street and Colchester, after which I played several rounds of Angry Birds. We human beings have at least two remarkable abilities. One of them is pattern … Continue reading →

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2011 Bragging Rights

Posted on 5 December 2011 by Cath@VWXYNot?

HURRAH! It’s that time of year when I start going through the Bragging Rights Central archives of my favourite comment(s) from this blog and post(s) from other blogs – see the sidebar for details – trying to pick my favourite … Continue reading →

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In which I long to curl up with a good book [23]

Posted on 5 December 2011 by Jennifer Rohn

‘Tis the season when colleagues start discreetly disappearing from the lab, only to return a few hours later laden with shopping bags from Oxford Street. There is a run on discarded boxes and packing peanuts in the store room, and … Continue reading →

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