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Sunday, March 27, 2005
Yet another mini-bunny-fest Crazy Rabbit - not so much crazy as slightly obsessive Bunny rap - hip-hop for rabbits. And remember, when thinking about Easter Bunnies Make Mine Chocolate!
'cos the real thing takes longer to prepare... Happy Easter (those of a more pervy nature will probably enjoy this Easter Bunny more) Labels: bunnies
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
There's been an awful lot of fuss recently about copyright violation. Leaving aside my own brush with it as the victim of bandwidth theft (more of that anon when I can think of something suitably humilating to say about the spotty little perps responsible), Unhappy Birthday is doing their best to help ASCAP out and protect a regularly violated copyright. If you have seen someone singing Happy Birthday in a restaurant, a park, or at a school, you should tell ASCAP so that they can arrange for a license. If you are an offender, you should apologize and offer to pay whatever is due — a nickel, a quarter, a dollar — whatever ASCAP demands.
There is an overwhelming amount of copyright infringement of Happy Birthday. Let's right the balance and tell ASCAP about every one of these violations!
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
The AOLer Translator - translate normal English to the kind of typing which can be understood by the denizens (aka 12 year-olds) of an AOL chat room (aka the 7th Cirle of Hell). Eg: English - AOL is crap, I mean really crap. You might think that Girls Aloud was real rubbish but that's just a walk in the park to AOL Translation - AOL IS CRAP I MEAN RILLY CRAP!!11!!11 OMG WTF U MIGHT THINK TAHT GIRLS ALOUD WAS R3AL RUBISH BUT TAHTS JUSRT A WOK IN TEH PARK 2 AOL Labels: geek
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Extract: " When I was 9, I caught my grandfather shaving in the bathroom and that is when I saw it: His Camp Number - 58877241....
...I do not want there to be cattle cars filled with people that these hate mongers scream out against. I do not want to see gays, liberals, Mexicans, hippies, Hollywood Actors, or anyone else have to be tattooed with a number. No more 58877241s....
...This summer, my family and I will be traveling to Auschwitz, so my children understand what there grandfather went through. I want my daughter to know why I see him in her eyes. And then everytime I look in her eyes I will see hope and love and not 58877241.
So to the Phelps and Coulters of the world, you are on notice, we will fight your hate because we will not have this happen again."
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Monday, March 21, 2005
An old Arab lived close to New York City for more than 40 years. He would have loved to plant potatoes in his garden, but he is alone, old and weak. His son is in college in Paris, so the old man sends him an e-mail. He explains the problem: 'Beloved son, I am very sad, because I can't plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, you would help and dig up the garden for me. I love you, Your Father' The following day, the old man receives a response e-mail from his son: 'Beloved Father, Please don't touch the garden. It's there that I have hidden 'the THING'. I love you, too, Ahmed' At 4pm the US Army, The Marines, the FBI, the CIA and the Rangers visit the house of the old man, take the whole garden apart, search every inch, but can't find anything. Disappointed they leave the house. A day later, the old man receives another e-mail from his son. 'Beloved Father, I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes. That's all I could do for you from here. I love you, Ahmed From eBaum's World .
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Sunday, March 20, 2005
Don't like that site? Want to blast it off your screen? Now you can with new Netdisaster. I've been dropping ICBMs on Fred Phelps all day Feels good.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
My book group will be doing The Da Vinci Code later this week. It promises to be an interesting meeting. Personally the book fascinates me because I find it hard to believe that such an intriguing plot could be devised by the same guy who wrote a piece of crap like Digital FortressMeanwhile, a lone voice from the Catholic Church has finally spoken out against Dan Brown's best seller. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Church fights Da Vinci Code novel: "The archbishop told Il Giornale: 'The book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true.'" If that's what's bothering him, I think I know why the Vatican has otherwise kept its mouth shut (for a change). Do you think someone ought to have a quiet word with this guy about The Bible ?
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
Two fish in a tank
You're gonna hate me for this.
(if it's any consolation just remember that " everyone else has had more sex than me"....)
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
This is doing the rounds in my office. It came from a training journal for ER staff and is referring to diagnosing the cause of the coma or unconsciousness:
Diagnosis If available, the history from relatives or ambulance staff will often give all the necessary clues needed to make a provisional diagnosis of the cause of unconsciousness. However, if they are a pyrexial, depressed epileptic diabetic that has been unwell recently and then fallen down stairs...........
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Like a growing number of people these days, I belong to a book group. However, it's a busy life and any help I can get with my reading is greatly appreciated. However Book-A-Minute might be going a bit too far. Their ultra-ultra condensed version of The Collected Work of Stephen King reads:
It was a nice day...........................AND THEN EVIL CAME! Although on reflection, that's about right.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2005
I got a shock this weekend, I discovered that one of my friends actually reads this blog and even follows the links! So this is a special post for SJ (and Laurie too): Abebooks. Apparently all of these books really are in print...somewhere. Here's a sample you'll definitely appreciate if you tried the Roadkill Rug site a few days ago: Flattened Fauna
Roger M. Knutson
A definitive guide for the millions of people who seldom see a wild animal that has not been flattened by dozens of vehicles and baked in the sun to an indistinct fur, scale or feather-covered patty. Flattened Fauna is unique, bizarre, intelligent and quietly, incidentally amusing. In it is a wealth of fascinating information about the eating, mating and locomotion habits of more than three dozen of the most common roadside animals in North America
All Editions: $2.50 - $34.36Meanwhile (and still for Essers and Laurie) I'm not sure exactly what Putorius means or why someone would use it as a keyword in a photo library but it sounds cool enough for me to want to drop it casually into a conversation one day if you two don't get there first. Oh yeah, and Happy St David's Day.
posted at 10:00 AM
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