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The questions that Slate’s ‘Explainer’ didn’t answer this year.

Shock news: some, but not all, people Google themselves, and other people

The Onion cuts to the chase on the whole Harry Potter nonsense.

P Diddy’s perfume is called Unforgivable Woman. Rejected alternatives: “Fallen Woman” and “Harlot”.

Time may be running out. Literally.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have had enough of the writers’ strike and are going back on air.

Will Smith’s next movie is I Am Legend (read the book, it’s brilliant). Then it’s a “homeless superhero” flick that’s likely to be pretty terrible.

Dublin looks very well today and this makes it look positively funky (I posted it in July, but I can show it now, so up it goes).

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Daniel Day Lewis’s next film, There Will Be Blood, has a current score of 100 out of 100 on Metacritic.

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An attack ad on Kant, by Nietzsche

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This man might be the leader of the free world in about a year’s time.