“..it could be the best thing to happen to world cricket. Now even Ireland has a chance of beating Australia..

“Social networks can connect people in three ways. They can strengthen existing relationships. They can connect friends-of-friends. And they can introduce complete strangers.

“..one million women are stalked in the U.S. every year. In two-thirds of the cases where a female victim asks for a police protective order, that order is violated.. One third of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner. 76 percent of these had been stalked by the partner in the year prior to their murder. Murder ranks second (after accidents) as the leading cause of death among young women. Murder is the number one cause of death of pregnant women in the United States.

“The soundtrack uses one of the best albums ever recorded, “Rain Dogs” by Tom Waits.

“I’d be happy if posts counted for nothing and only comments did. It promotes and rewards discussion.

“Cool feature of NYT online I just discovered: If you double click a word, it’ll define it for you in a pop up window.

“The game was a clear-cut one: Hayden wanted Machinist’s money, and Machinist didn’t want to give it, or even commit to giving it, until he absolutely had to, until all the risk factors could be assessed, until every last bit of leverage could be accrued - if then. This was Machinist’s real craft: Make people think you are ready and able to give them money, so ready and so able that they will reveal themselves totally, prostrate themselves completely. So that by the time you do give them the money, if you give them the money, it will be on absolutely the most favorable conditions imaginable.

“..what do they put in the water there? They charge you for the water, by the way.

“In the course of a few hours, a plan had been put in place to make me one of the richest men in the country, partner me with one of the most blackened business names of the century, and fly me across the continent for dinner.

“Arthur Edward Jeune Collins: born in India, August 18, 1885; killed in war - as were his two brothers - November 11,1914, while serving with the Royal Engineers in the first battle of Ypres. In June of 1899, he scored 628 not out, and by doing so established a world record that has stood ever since: The Highest Innings on Record.