• During dinner, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Paul Dirac was forced to speak perfect French by his disciplinarian dad, so he mostly kept quiet. It led to a crippling shyness in adulthood, the BBC reports.
"As someone who actively avoided any kind of attention, he wanted to refuse the Nobel Prize in 1933 in order to avoid the publicity. He accepted it only when advised that, as the first person to refuse a Nobel Prize, the publicity would be even greater."
• Old Town Clothing: made to order clothes in traditional, classic styles.
"The Ealing films of the post-war period showed British qualities of the small, the eccentric, the individual and the collective. We hope that our styles have something of the spartan and institutional with a mothy comedy dinginess one associated with that time and genre."
(Via Haddock)
• As the father of a toddler who likes to run off, I'm all for tagging kids with Bluetooth.
