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cirkey.Lego. http://www.mechanizedbrick.com/mb.html

Had a very West Wing Dream in which I was picked for Barack Obama's Economics Team. Go MoneyScience – www.moneyscience.com

Like the FT's Chris Nuttall, I'm becoming a much bigger fan of Gmail – http://tinyurl.com/7cpdpu

Almost 700m tonnes of CO2 would be released into the Earth's atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict – http://tinyurl.com/9kltv2

Best 50 Astronomy Pictures of Year 2008 – http://tinyurl.com/77xuc8

New web data-mining technologies have the potential to be somewhat intrusive – http://tinyurl.com/9g23vj

Animated Aurora Borealis, from Orbit – http://tinyurl.com/9jodwf

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." -Brilliant Bushisms – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7809160.stm

December Stanstead Protestors face the threat of being sued for more than £2m in damages – http://tinyurl.com/86brcg

Shocking: Heathrow gets the go ahead for a third runway. http://tinyurl.com/7gps5n – now watch the direct action ramp up.

U2 performing for Barack Obama in the inauguration build-up. http://tinyurl.com/7ysb4l

The rather brilliant, "There's probably no God" ads do not breach advertising codes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7842769.stm

I just got an 'Obama Hug' on Facebook!

Dear Blue Peter, "I think I no how to make people or animals alive" – http://tinyurl.com/at6zpx – http://tinyurl.com/aqpqr6

Great Picture – Spacewalk – http://tinyurl.com/7q7gks

Frustrating. Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner have started to conflict.

My favourite poem by Wendy Cope – Exchange of Letters – http://tinyurl.com/ajn4sg

Searched Twitter for google harm: http://tinyurl.com/br8ovv

– Foucault's Pendulum, Immortal Jellyfish, 50 Strange Buildings and many more Sci-Tech-Business Shorts – http://tinyurl.com/d53xpm

Five Physics Lessons for Obama – http://tinyurl.com/5uuvya

Dilbert takes a bullet for the team: http://tinyurl.com/bmw8n4

How Twitter was Born – http://tinyurl.com/c6xk8m

I really like this idea – Galaxy Zoo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7894071.stm

Just announced the 1st of 9 new training events at MoneyScience: Advanced C++ for Computational Finance – http://tinyurl.com/bg7wuc

The benefits of binge drinking – http://tinyurl.com/bff8wr

While blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn't one of them. http://www.newsweek.com/id/183666

On Children: Pointing- http://tinyurl.com/d23kkz – Computer Games – http://tinyurl.com/aankab – and Grandparents –http://tinyurl.com/b8jll4.

Ray Kurzweil's 'Singularity University' backed by Nasa & Google will offer courses in ai, nanotech and biotech – http://tinyurl.com/cbged2

A 100,000 Square Mile Sunshade: http://tinyurl.com/bcc95b

What's the ideal number of friends? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7920434.stm

Jumping the shark – http://tinyurl.com/82qca

RT @roncallari – Is Twitter about to Jump the Shark? http://tinyurl.com/clgtnl

The little white lie that grew – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7967982.stm

A much nicer homepage for MoneyScience.com http://www.moneyscience.com/

I have 24 hours of madness ahead of me as I get married at 1pm tomorrow. Will I twitter? Yes, I will.

i need to find at least an hour to finish this speech.

mmm. banoffi pie is all very well, but i really should finish this speech.

Asok is definitely my favourite character from Dilbert – http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-04-04/

RT @coopsmarc – http://coopsmarc.blogspot.com/2009/04/banksy-gets-banksyd-in-bristol.html Does vandalising Banksy = art?

A herd of of stampeding wildebeest on Whiteladies road – http://tinyurl.com/c6ejgm

Surprising Twitter Demographics – http://tinyurl.com/aqhtbc

All That Twitters Isn't Gold: http://tinyurl.com/dx7w9o

One of my favourites, JG Ballard dies at 78 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8007331.stm

Anyone know what time the Budget Speech Starts today?

@DivaDevvers, @ralvin, thanks – it's 12.30 – I should have checked the Radio4 schedule!

Brilliant. Radio 4 – Down the Line Credit Crunch Special – http://is.gd/tV2I

Déjà vu: Where fact meets fantasy – http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.400-deja-vu-where-fact-meets-fantasy.html

Children come with a high carbon cost – http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126994.200-children-come-with-a-high-carbon-cost.html

Cops caught trying to bribe a Plane Stupid activist – http://tinyurl.com/clrb66

What Age Should Children Watch Star Wars? http://tinyurl.com/d2awxz – I saw it at the pics when I was 4 & I turned out alright 🙂

Some children start school knowing 6,000 words, others just 500 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8013859.stm

The most distant single object ever detected by telescopes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8022917.stm

Including this one, my 5 twitter accounts combined now have 1500 followers @moneyscience, @hedgefundfocus, @businessschools and @msluxury

Nominations are open for the 2009 Courvoisier the Future 500 – http://www.cvtf500.com

The Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg – http://tinyurl.com/c9eqcz

100 Best First Lines of Novels – As chosen by the editors of American Book Review – http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0934311.html

Trekkies bash new Star Trek Film as 'Fun, Watchable' – http://bit.ly/CcUNF

Great spot from my brother Lawrence over on the Bettany Blog – Nathan Flutebox Lee and Beardyman http://tinyurl.com/pchdgd

The masterpiece that killed George Orwell – http://bit.ly/12Y3aC

This looks good: District 9 – http://bit.ly/ooU6y

My favourite #startrek joke: How many ears does Mr Spock have? 3, a left ear, a right ear and a final front ear.

Twitter Could Have Learned From Alastair Reynolds – http://tinyurl.com/qb228v

#Twitter is all very well for work, but I still haven't found a working model to help me decide what I should be tweeting personally.

Searched Twitter for alistair reynolds: http://tinyurl.com/oqqjx9

Searched Twitter for Greg Bear: http://tinyurl.com/q5eru2

Maybe I should tell more jokes?

Searched Twitter for Kim Stanley Robinson: http://tinyurl.com/r25gmw

#PrettyCool – 50 years of Island records audio slideshow – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8062166.stm

Climate change summit hijacked by biggest polluters – http://bit.ly/rKTRR

@cfinke – hi chris, I'm sure I'm not the 1st person to ask, so sorry, but are there any plans to let twitterbar handle multiple accounts?

Bugger, I missed Towel Day on Monday – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

Adultery business cashes in on world's recession worries – http://tinyurl.com/cu8zwj

It's unfocused, random, and extremely good at what it does. How we can learn from a baby's brain. http://tinyurl.com/css6w9

#crapsuperpowers – the ability to to walk on porridge and breathe in treacle.

Super cool – Banksy's first show in Bristol since 2000 – http://tinyurl.com/mt32td

@t1mmyb – what? banksy. the most famous Bristolian since Wallace and Gromit?

Pretty Cool – Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey – MIT Courseware Homepage – http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/geb/geb/index.htm

Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults.http://tinyurl.com/qjj4bh

Ray Bradbury reflects on libraries, Bo Derek, the Internet and how to live forever. http://bit.ly/HcwtI

Footage of 2 women arrested for asking a policeman his badge number – http://tinyurl.com/l6httk