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19-04-13

More favourite time-lapse videos

Here are some more time-lapse beauties that we’ve unearthed. Enjoy… 5. Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years At nearly 6 minutes this one requires patience but watching poor old Noah get well… fat and old [...]

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08-04-13

Opening ceremony. By Matt Lancashire (Flickr: P7252708) [CC-BY-2.0 mpics_opening_ceremony_(11)

Where were you when… the London Olympics started?

Nine months ago London held the best ever Olympics (OK, we’re biased), kicking off with Danny Boyle’s awesome opening ceremony. With this month on the Cakebook being time-themed, we’ve asked some of the team at Sunday what they were doing [...]

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04-04-13

Clocl machine, Museum of Lifem, Burgundy

What can you do in 60 seconds?

Time feel like it’s slipping you by? Maybe you’re just not seizing the moment in quite a direct enough way. One way to focus your mind on the present is by breaking each minute into focused 60-second bursts of activity. [...]

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28-03-13

Consequences (part 1)

To round off books month on Cakebook, we thought we’d write our own story. Remember that game Consequences where you write a line (he wore, she wore, he said, she said) and then pass it on to the next person [...]

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25-03-13

Memorable books (part 3)

We’re a cultured lot really. Herewith the third instalment of our memorable books list. Adrian: Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks, probably because it’s written in a way that it’s easy to visualise the sci-fi universe it’s set in. Toby [...]

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21-03-13

Favourite children’s books (part 2)

More of our favourite children’s books. And more of those cute/slightly disturbing pics… Amy Trouble for Trumpets by Peter Dallas-Smith, illustrated by Peter Cross. Ross My favourite book as a child was a 700-page tome: The Football League Directory 1987. A compendium [...]

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13-03-13

Memorable books (part 2)

From Gollum to McEwan, the second instalment of our most memorable reads. Matt: A Clockwork Orange. I probably read it at too innocent an age, but I was blown away by the visceral prose (and brilliant David Pelham cover). Stuart: [...]

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08-03-13

Favourite children’s books (part 1)

Enid Blyton, we salute you. An insight into our favourite books as children (and a rare glimpse of what some of us looked like back then). Jessie I can’t remember the title, but I remember the plot very well indeed: [...]