Thanks ...

A piece of email spam that took my fancy ...

"Hello,
Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics ..."

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All readers complaining about being distracted from marking et al by the History Carnival should stop now: I just found an online Tetris game. (It was the one computer game that I really wasted some time over in my youth - it is most curiously addictive - I only played one game this time, really.)

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But if you really need a one-minute chill, click through this lovely sequence of two hummingbirds' first 21 days.