The Pipwick Papers
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It's time for a weekly wander outside the confines of videogaming to take a look at what all of those OTHER people have been getting up to. Think of this as a Mother's Day bouquet delivery, except the flowers are URLs, you're not my mother and no-one's charging you the best part of twenty quid for emergency last-minute delivery.
This is not the Sunday Papers.
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Honnold has free-soloed the longest, most challenging climbs ever, including the 2,500-foot northwest face of Half Dome in Yosemite Valley, where some of the handholds are so small that no average climber could cling for an instant, roped or otherwise. Most peculiar of all, even to elite rock climbers, Honnold does this without apparent fear, as if falling were not possible.
And this, Latin professor Richard McClintock says, is a big factor in how Lorem Ipsum must have become filler text. McClintock is credited with tracking down the original excerpt from De Finibus and identifying it with Lorem Ipsum. This is how he thinks it was transformed: "At some point, likely in the middle ages, a typesetter had to make a type specimen book, to demo different fonts, and he got the idea that if the text should be insensible, so as not to distract from the page’s graphical features."
