Three fine, if inconsequential in the greater scheme of things, discoveries in the last 24 hours:

1) There's a cycle messengers' world championship and this year it's in Dublin.

2) Comments captchas can be put to good use. ReCaptcha creates Captchas for your site by sending words that the Internet Archive book digitisation project can't decipher so you can read them and send your answer back. It's a sort of SETI for books. Who'd have thunk it?

3) The bloke that wrote The Red Flag came from the same village as my Grandmother.

I almost guarantee that you and your life was were less fragrant before you read this.