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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Modern Humorist - Editor's Picks - cheerfully skewering pop-culture
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Stupid SciFi - not quite sure what to make of these people. Let's see, they have puppets, they go round Sci-fi conventions and get their photos taken with the guests.....dos any of this sound familiar?
However, this is a fun site, packed with slightly off-the-wall fan-produced media - artwork, movies (still sounds familiar don't it?)
OK, so it sounds like my site - but it's bigger and better. Go see for yourself.
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Monday, December 29, 2003
FBI Agent Screening Exam by Steven Brykman - I've probably posted a link to another version of this before, however this one has a lot of information about the individuals shown. There's a lot of creepy-looking programmers out there - who'd have guessed?
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Sunday, December 28, 2003
Where is my gnome - this guy must really care about his gnome as it looks like he's actually spending money to promote this site with banner ads on Yahoo. I strongly suspect I'm missing something here but if it's a spoof I can't see it.
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Saturday, December 27, 2003
Spanish Basketball game - actually the only Spanish thing about this are the instructions. It's still a fun little timewaster and I sussed out how to play it without knowing a word of Spanish beyond "So sorry, he's from Barcelona".
Then again, I'm easily pleased.
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Friday, December 26, 2003
Singing (Tone Deaf) Bass - if anyone was unlucky enough to get a singing Billy Bass this year, you are really going to enjoy the paybacks in the Flash movie.
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Thursday, December 25, 2003
Exmas Card - featuring axe-weildiing Santas, a vigilante kid and a really beat-up robin. Merry Christmas anyone? Labels: christmas
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Flatulina's Fabulous World! - Fart music for the holidays... your favorite Xmas songs performed by someone with chronic hypergastroplosia Labels: christmas
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Diners - from the BBC - a simple but fun game produced by the BBC in conjunction with the recent TV series. So this is what they do with the licence fees!
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Internet Simulator - painfully and depressingly accurate...
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Monday, December 22, 2003
Granny in a Snowglobe - do not visit this site if you have a shred of affection for grannies; it's pretty sick.
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Sunday, December 21, 2003
Anecdotage.com - vast numbers of mostly clean, very entertaining anecdotes indexed in a database o you can search through them. Expect to spend some time here.
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Saturday, December 20, 2003
Acne Be Gone - I'll leave it to your imagination *how* you're going to get rid of Kevin's acne in this game
....but the words "pop and "splat" come to mind.
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Friday, December 19, 2003
From now until the New Year, I'm not putting up anything serious or even news-related in this blog. This is partly because after the year we've all had, I think we deserve all the fun we can get.
But it's also because I'm going away over Xmas and I'm doing all this stuff about 2 weeks in advance.
Labels: christmas
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Clinger - not really a game, just compelling and slightly unsettling. Very well done though.
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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Towers are the Players (Gollum Rap) - this is the kind of thing that gives ammunition to those nerd-baiters who enjoy trashing LoTR and telling its fans to get a life.
This is certainly not something you will see in the film but it's very creative and rather well made.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
The Best of Hubble - nice little slide show of the best of the Hubble telescope photos. It takes something like this to make you realise how many of these images have become almost ubiquitous
(actually it's not a "little" slide show - the download is a bit heavy, but worth it if you like this kind of thing)
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
The Bush Background Generator! - this is a fun little DIY toy, brought to you by Fresh Laundry . Try it for yoursevles.
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Monday, December 15, 2003
Bonnie Langford - it's Monday, I'm feeling cruel.
(Additionally, I happen to own one of her CDs and it's rather good...and how can a person look that good when they're only 22 days younger than me?!?!??)
Update 16 December. - Good news - I've just heard on the radio that she's going to be joining Dillie Keane and Adele Anderson of Fascinating Aida for some performances they're doing next year.
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Sunday, December 14, 2003
THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by MAX BROOKS - I think because it's Sunday I'm having a bit of a Zombie day....This one is not in the same league as the infection simulator - but it's still morbidly interesting.
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Zombie Infection Simulation - not sure what is more disturbing about this site - the fact that it runs simulations of zombies infecting a population using quite logical mathematical equations...or the fact that I sat there and ran the simulation at least 3 times.
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Saturday, December 13, 2003
10 Downing Street website - following on from my link to The Whitehouse a few days, this one's useful to see what The Poodle is up to.
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Friday, December 12, 2003
Screenonline - online film encyclopedia from the British Film Institute. The best bits are subscription-only which is a bit of a pain but even without that it's still a very useful reference if you're into the history of Brit Flicks.
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
Dear Mom and Dad,
Since I left for college I have been remiss in writing and I am sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on, please sit down. You are not to read any further until you are sitting down, okay?
Well, then, I'm getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got when I jumped out the window of my dormitory when it caught on fire shortly after my arrival here is pretty well healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital and now I can see almost normally and only get those sick headaches once a day.
Fortunately, the fire in the dormitory, and my jump, was witnessed by an attendant at a gas station near the dorm, and he was the one who called the Fire Department and the ambulance.
He also visited me in the hospital and since I had nowhere to live because of the burntout dormitory, he was kind enough to invite me to share his appartment with him. It's really a basement room, but it's kind of cute. He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven't got the exact date yet, but it will be before my pregnancy begins to show.
Yes, Mother and Dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents and I know you will welcome the baby and give it the same love and devotion and tender care you gave me when I was a child.
The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has a minor infection which prevents him from passing our pre-marital blood tests and I carelessly caught it from him. I know that you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He is kind and, although not well educated, he is ambitious. Although he is of a different race and religion than ours, I know your often expressed tolerance will not permit you to be bothered by that.
Now that I have brought you up to date, I want to tell you that there was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was not in the hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I am not infected, and there is no boyfriend. However, I am getting a "D" in American History, and an "F" in Chemistry and I want you to see those marks in their proper perspective.
Your loving daughter,
Sharon
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003
...:::Mumbles webcam:::...... - one last Welsh site, and I love it. The local photographer in The Mumbles has set himself the task of putting up a new photo of the area every day. Naturally since he's confined to one area, there's a bit of repetition in terms of subjects but it's on the coast and since he seems to be taking a lot of these photos on his way to and from work there are some beautiful sunrises, sunsets and night shots.
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The Mumbles Book - still on the Welsh theme, this palce has a cute monthly online newsletter. I'm so glad to find out what has happened to the bus shelter in town...
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The Castles of Wales - for a principality with a population of less than 3 million and a land mass a bit smaller than New Jersey there are a lot of castles in Wales; approximately 500 of them. Information on roughly 100 of them are provided on this site. And about a dozen of them are within 30 minute's drive of my parents' house.
And I've visited them all...
....at least twice.
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
This Day in History - I'm definitely in touch with my inner historian (although sometimes I enjoy these history trivia sites a little too much). This one is part of the infoplease encyclopedia site; and if you liked this you'll probably also enjoy " Today's birthdays "
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At the instigation of some friends, I'vre decided to try my hand at this whole Google-bombing thing
The following link simply goes to the profile of a pal. He's married with kids so don't get any ideas. And if he hasn't been reading the message board where we cooked this up, he's probably blissfully unaware of what we're up to - let's keep it that way shall we?
Too sexy to be legal
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Monday, December 08, 2003
Welcome to the White House - always handy to keep an eye on what the weasels are up to....
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Starfleet Academy Recreational Forums! -> Battle of the Pics III - Oh I *do* like it when someone rips off my photos on a message board without gving me any credit or bothering to tell me.
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Sunday, December 07, 2003
From a letter to the editor of The NY Daily News regarding the ordination of Bishop Gene Robinson:
"The actions taken by the New Hampshire Anglicans are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the chruch's founder, Henry VIII & his wife Catherine, & his wife Anne & his wife Jane & his other wife Anne & his other wife Catherinne & of course his wife Katherine are no longer here to suffer through this assault on tradiitional Christian marrige".
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Saturday, December 06, 2003
Gonna have a little BBC purge today......
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BBC - WW2 People's War - Homepage - normally I loathe anything with the prefix "The People's...." but I can live with it in this case.
With memories of what War really means rapidly receeding from living memory(ie. bombs droping on You, not just on a country 1,000 miles away), this project provides a useful service. It invites visitor to submit their own or their family memories of WW2.
I doubt very much that Dubya will give a toss about it, but since I live in an area that was totally flattened by the Blitz (and my Dad was living around here at the time) I take a personal interest in this kind of thing.
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BBC - Radio 4 - Home - this is how our license fee should be used!!!! Missed your favorite Radio 4 program this week? No problem - this page provides links to streaming versions of all the latest Radio 4 programs.
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BBCi - The Big Read - OK, you'll probably only really enjoy this if you are already familiar with the presenters whose voices are being used. If you've been following the Big Read series on BBC2 and BBC4 you may already have seen some of these adverts. Owing to their popularity those nice opportunists at the BBC have put RealPlayer versions of all of them on one page.
For the rest of you, this a collection of 3D animated adverts featuring a group of 'bookworms', each advocating the virtues of a particular book. They serve as trailers for a series where each book is presented by a real-life celebrity (whose voice is used for the worm). The last program is tonight.
...something tells me that this description isn't really selling it to you, is it?
They're very cute.
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BBC - Blackadder - The Blackadder Quiz - good quiz design (the questions are drawn randomnly from a large pool and they don't tell you the right answer when you get it wrong). so if you really do know your Baldrick from your Darling, this is your chance to shine!
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Friday, December 05, 2003
The Big Smoke Debate - The chance to have your say about passive smoking. - I'm allergic to tobacco smoke so let's just say I have a personal interest in this.
I'm particularly pissed off by people who seem to think that their right to smoke extends to forcing me to inhale the crap they breathe out. Apparently if I don't like smokey pubs, I have a choice - I don't have to go in them. It's a bit like me not washing for a week then telling smokers that if they don't like it, they can clear off. However, to my knowledge there are no non-smoking pubs or clubs in my neighbourhood which makes socialising a bit of a challenge. Still, don't want to deprive those poor smokers of their rights eh?
And as for designated smoking areas in a restaurant - that's just about as effective as having designated pee-ing areas in a swimming pool.
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The Newby's Advert Calendar! - open those little door and get a really twisted little advert surprise.
And if you enjoyed that, try out my own Advent Calendar.
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Looney Tunes Teach the Internet - OK, so Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and co. are probably not world authorities on IP addresses, Flash installation and FTP protocols etc. but the informaton is accurate, presented in an entertaining way and it's not too patronising. All in all, not a bad place to start (I may even send my Dad this link!) Labels: bunnies
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Thursday, December 04, 2003
BBC - Tickets - Homepage - and finally. the BBC lets you go to their program recordings for free. I've done it and it's great! (but they don't do tickets for ISIHAC)
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ISIHAC Games - Humph's Closing Gems - and here's a sample of the kind of things you might hear in "I'm sorry I haven't a clue".
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The Officially Unofficial I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Web Pages - offically sub-titled "the anecdote to quiz games", it's been going for 30 years and is reputed to be the most popular radio comedy program in the UK. It's certainly a cult.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
The Bears Nuts - for obvious reasons I quite like "Bad Taste Bears" and this is a good resource for information on all bear incarnations - past, present and future. And, in keeping with the BTB tradition, this site is just the tiniest little bit sick....
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School Report - Mr Bronson - this has left me confused. I'm sure I recall coming home from school to see Mr Bronson (played by the man we know as "Mr Michael") on Grange Hill. The only problem is that if the dates are right, I was graduating University at the time?!?!?
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Find A Grave - morbid but oddly compelling as you read about the lives of not only the famous but the infamous and the previously totally unheard-of.
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Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Microsith.com - feature free downloads of Microsith Planet Exploder 5.0 and a pop-up window appearence by Darth Paperclip ("If you shut me down I shall come back bigger than you can imagine")
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Monday, December 01, 2003
Welcome to Engrish.com! - and before you start laughing too hard at the fractured English on this site just think how much harder most other nations laugh when we try speaking their languages.
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