Kazuo Ishiguro

The Guardian profile Kazuo Ishiguro today. Kazuo Ishiguro’s early career set a modern benchmark for precocious literary success. Born in 1954, in 1982 he won the Winifred Holtby award for the best expression of a sense of place, for his debut novel A Pale View of Hills . In 1983, he was included in the … Keep reading

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After The Wasp Factory, which shouldn’t last much longer than this evening, I am going to have a crack at this: Some good Palimthoughts from the ever reliable Self here.

Sex hungry roaches lured to death

No comment required. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sex hungry roaches lured to death Synthetic sex pheromones are being developed as an ingenious way of luring randy cockroaches to their deaths.

Firefox Multiple Homepages

I only managed to figure out last night how to get Firefox to open multiple tabs on startup, each with a different page loading. And guess what? It was very simple to do. Simple set your tabs up as you want at startup, and go to options and click ‘set as home page(s)’ It’s that … Keep reading