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Monday, May 31, 2004
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Friday, May 28, 2004
Big Brother's Extremely Little Brother - just from the advance publicity, this year's Big Brother looks as though it's going to be pretty crap. So I'm not going to be watching it. My only regret is that this means I won;t get too many of the jokes on this site.
That's a pity, 'cos it's usually hysterical.
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
CAT RESUME
Career Goal - Long term position as HOUSECAT.
Qualifications
* Omnivorous. Strong rodent-control capabilities.
* Excellent nonverbal communication skills. Highly trained purring.
* Affectionate. Adaptable. Rare feline willingness to follow
established guidelines.
* Proven stud potential.
Experience
BARNCAT Westchester Estates, New York. March 1988-May 1990
* Ensured day-to-day rodent control for two story, 35,000 sq.
foot barn.
* Consumed over five rodents per day (average).
* Achieved 37% reduction in barn swallow population.
* Awarded feline leukemia inoculation after one month of service.
* Earned in-house privileges for outstanding service and
behavior after only two months on the job!
ALLEYCAT Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. November 1986-February 1988
* Successfully maintained territorial boundaries of four square
block area in notoriously competitive and dangerous location.
* Developed proficiency in urban survival, hunting, and
scavenging skills.
* Honored by co-cats for consistent expertise in maneuvering
safely and adroitly through heavy traffic of skateboards,
cars, and rollerskates.
Education
Certificate: Feline Deportment, February, 1987.
* Tom & Jerry, Associates, Hollywood, California. 1 year
intensive study with Tom of famed 'Tom & Jerry' partnership.
High honors.
References available on request.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
We Made Out In A Tree And This Old Guy Sat And Watched Us - "This site is dedicated to the English language, that complex tongue spoken by a large chunk of the world's population and by several communities in the American South.
Specifically, it's dedicated to unusual quotes, strange statements, bad writing and other oddities of the language. Things that are funny because of the specific choice of words. Things that sound great because of the context, or that sound even better when given no context at all. (Like the name of the site, for example.) "
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
clwb malu cachu - very useful guide to Welsh pronounciation. However, if you can say the name of the site, you probably don't need to go there...
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Monday, May 24, 2004
Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena - these mess with both your eyes and your head.
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Saturday, May 22, 2004
BUSHLAND: The Musings of the President of the United States - "Where America comes to laugh in order not to cry"
Something tells me I'm going to be blogging more and more sites like this as November approaches.
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Friday, May 21, 2004
Deep Impact: Amateur Observers: Where is Tempel 1? - Tempel 1 is a comet. Deep Impact is a probe which NASA plan to crash into it (friendly eh?). This page will help you to locate the comet's position at any given time.
Space probes have always carried some kind of message from Earth. Normally it's been the cosmic equivalent of "if found please return to...". However, over the last couple of years many of them have also included CDs containing lists of names submitted via the project web site (I see it as a shopping list for any aliens who want to get into the abduction business). Deep Impact has a similar plan.
I seem to have a knack of jinxing these things since I signed up to all the Mars probes that promptly went AWOL. However, in this case I think I'm helping.
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Thursday, May 20, 2004
Celebrity Battles.com - this is interesting not so much for the outcomes of the votes on various battles but for the categories of battles - "Who is more evil", "Who is the dumber political figure" (well I think we can all guess who'll win the league on that one) and "Who is more likely to get arrested?".
The pairings themselves are pretty surreal too - Rasputin vs Jerry Springer????
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
William Blake Online - I spent an absorbing afternoon last week in the William Blake room at the Tate Gallery. And in case I missed anything they've thoughtfully provided an online version here...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
ageproject - aka "guess my age". I don't know if the people who submit their photos to this site are monumental egotists or just plain naive.
The nice part is that, having guessed at their age, the site tells you their real age and what the average guess was. So I had a lot of fun pushing up the average by guessing the ages of anyone posting "I Love Me" photos as around 120.
However, I think this guy has the right idea.
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Monday, May 17, 2004
THE MUSEUM OF BURNT FOOD - does exactly what it says on the tin. Labels: says on the tin
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Sunday, May 16, 2004
Pac Manhattan - Some bright spark noticed the similarity of the road layout in Manhatten to the grid of a Pacman game. The result is this real life version of the video game.
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Saturday, May 15, 2004
Am I Annoying Or Not? - another variation of the Am-I-Hot-Or-Not site. And I think the answer would be Yes in most cases here.
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Friday, May 14, 2004
Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - The Infinite Cat Project - the end of the CAT scan project (use your imaginations) left a void in the market for weird cat-interacting-with-machines sites. This has now been filled by The Infinite Cat project.
Step 1. Put picture of cat on screen
Step 2. Get own cat to look at picture
Step 3. Take a photo
Step 4. Put it on the screen
Step 5. go to step 2 and continue
I've noticed that you rarely see sites like this using dogs as their subjects. I suspect this is because A) Dogs are not smart and it's too easy to mock them. B) Cats are generally snotty and therefore it's far more fun to make them look daft whenever possible.
And in this particualr case, there's too great a danger that a dog would try to lick the screen...
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
Church of Fools - a neat idea from the Ship of Fools people which has let itself down a bit in the last few days. The Methodist Church has decided to setup a virtual place of worship allowing visitors to roam about an online Church using avatars. They are also encouraged to sit and pray. Periodically, a real-life minister is recruited to host a service from the pulpit. So far so good. It's a nice idea.
Unfortunately following complaints about abuse, the chat functions have had to be curtailed, profanity filters installed, and some areas of the church closed to the public.
Let's see. The Methodist Church want a 3-D virtual church so they go to the people who did the 3-D virtual Osbournes (does Black Sabbath mean nothing to them???) and give their new site a name similar to the creators' company - and then they discover that this is attracting an audience that tends to be a bit profane. WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?!?!?!?!?!?
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
MI5's homepage - so much for the secret service.
Well the CIA have got one so I guess they were feeling a bit left out....
Anyone want to be a Spy?
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Sunday, May 09, 2004
Lucy Pringle's Crop Circle Photographs (Stanton Bridge nr Stanton St.Barnard,Wiltshire,2000) - I promise that a certain ursine had nothing to do this.
But it's given him ideas....
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Saturday, May 08, 2004
The Gadflyer: Ammo Dump - handy digest of ammunition for use in countering arguments on key issues.
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Friday, May 07, 2004
The Crossroads - Pulp Phantom - Quintin Tarrantino meets George Lucas ("with hilarious consequences....")
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Thursday, May 06, 2004
Yeti Sports - he's back with that penguin...and this time they've got an albatross.
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My personal best distance to date is about 1,350
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
VirtualStapler.com : Revolutionary Online Stapler Simulation - because it's Wednesday and by now you're probably climbing the office walls.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Welcome to The British Museum - well I can't be putting weird sites up all week! This is definitely one of my favorite places in London - and it's free.
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Monday, May 03, 2004
Cow Magnets - actually this is a genuine, serious product. But I still can't help wondering about the twisted mind that would come up with this as a solution to omnivorous bovines.
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Sunday, May 02, 2004
Saturday, May 01, 2004
The Exorcist in 30 seconds...
...with bunnies
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