The first academic casualty of the Boston College-Jean McConville furore has been a parallel project which was to involve a London-based historian and an ex-RUC officer as well as retired members of the Garda Siochana in the Irish Republic, all with long records in fighting terrorism.
Take those 327,452 tweets a minute (not to mention a parallel tsunami from Facebook and the rest).
He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called "parallel state" supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud.
There is an interesting parallel with Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan before the 1975 referendum, who trotted round the capitals of Europe getting a packet of matches rather than a cigar and hailed this as a great triumph".
Celtic had issued a statement declaring they were "surprised by the parallel conclusion that no competitive advantage was gained from these arrangements".
As Russell walked through Glasgow Cross, he said, he saw the helicopter flying westwards over the Saltmarket main road and railway bridges that run parallel to it, only a few hundred metres east of the Clutha Vaults.
Under Mississippi rules all voters, regardless of affiliation, are permitted to vote in the GOP primary, as long as they do not also cast a vote in the parallel Democratic primary.
A parallel government crisis, tangentially related to the euro, sparked early elections and another change of regime in Slovenia.
It is also a parallel universe where when a young woman faced with the loss of housing benefit and loss of shelter doesn't make a decision to get pregnant and thereby keep her housing benefit.
It's then expected to weaken as it moves westward parallel to the Top End north coast on Monday.
One of Blake's heroes is Mala, the dubstep pioneer who shook dub's steady beats on to a parallel axis – Blake traces the line further, going past Burial's night bus and into the coffee house and the jazz club.
