What I've learnt this week (slightly late edition)

Some people don't bother to check whether something is possible before the promise somebody else will do it.

More languages than you might think have words for the practice of making a mobile-phone call that isn't intended to be picked up.

The governor of Tokyo really doesn't like crows. The feeling may be mutual.


I'm even less likely than I thought to be related to Phil Collins. Or Edwyn, or Lewis, or Andrew, or Colin...

The title of Steve Reich's box Phases is a pun. Admittedly, that is a musical fact but one unlikely to appear on any of my other blogs.