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1. You can resize your insanely ginormous desktop icons in Windows Vista by clicking on the desktop, then holding down the Ctrl key and scrolling with the mouse wheel. Faster than right-clicking on the desktop, then View > Classic Icons.
2. Arcade Fire are from Montreal. Watch two acoustic semi-improvised sessions for Neon Bible and Wake Up at Olympia in Paris.
3. 34sp.com, the company that hosts bitful.com, uses PHP Safe Mode enabled, which is not compatible with the InstantUpgrade WordPress plugin I installed, which means that sometimes it is not possible to leave comments on bitful.com. For the time being, if this happens to you, please try again later. It works most of the time, and I hope I will be able to fix it soon.
4. Hugh Laurie and Dawn French are in the video for Kate Bush's Experiment IV. Watch Experiment IV on YouTube.
5. Actor Martin Clunes was a photo model for Gilbert and George in the early 80s. He can be seen in their 1983 work 'World', currently in the Gilbert & George exhibition at the Tate Modern, London, until 7 May 2007.
6. If you could drill a hole all the way through the earth to the antipodes, an object dropped in the hole through the earth would oscillate back and forth.
7. There are two types of fibre in muscle: 'slow twitch' and 'fast twitch'. The former contract slowly but they can keep going for a long time, which makes them ideal for running marathons. The latter contract quickly but are rapidly worn out, and are best for sprinting. You are born with more of one or the other, but training can make a difference.

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