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Friday, September 30, 2005
And today's "We laugh in the face of the Data Protection Act" award goes to: Dennis Publishing for this egregious attempt to bamboozle participants in an prize survey. What were these guys thinking???  To click or not to click? That is what the spammers hope you can't work out. Labels: geek
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I'm just so chuffed that I jumped on this meme wagon right back when it was born rather than when it had been Metafiltered and Boing Boinged to death. Firstly, here's the original Open Letter. Since then a cult has been spawned and I've decided that I'm a pastafarian! FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER - THE GAME - play the game... FSM Video - see the movie... Flying Spaghetti Monster Shop - and BUY THE T-SHIRT! If you're wondering what this is all about, this provides a fairly comprehensive explanation: Touched by His Noodly AppendageThere's even FSM porn (and the costume was up for sale the next day on Ebay. As an added attraction for geeks the sellers pointed out that it had actually been worn by a girl. And she was NAKED too! I don't know how the sale went but since by that time most of their potential buyers had either fainted or were bidding one-handed, I suspect their sales pitch had backfired) And it's a world wide phenomenon as witnessed by Las penas del Agente Smith » Múltiples apariciones del Flying Spaghetti Monster - this reminds me of the joke where Jesus wraps up a session talking to some hapless random with the comment "Must dash, I have to appear on a peice of toast in a Red State this afternoon" WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTERISM * Flimsy moral standards. * Every friday is a relgious holiday. If your work/school objects to that, demand your religious beliefs are respected and threaten to call the ACLU. * Our heaven is WAY better. We've got a Stripper Factory AND a Beer Volcano. So having considered all this, I've decided that this is the only kind of Intelligent Design I can get behind. Now ask yourself, WWFSMD? Labels: fsm, meme
posted at 3:33 AM
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
Feel like doing a little smiting? Biblical curse generator - Take heed, O thou relative of Herod, for you will be swallowed by a whale with excessively bad breath!
The generator also seems worryingly fond of curses involving the target being kicked by an incontinent camel - at least that should get those fundamentalists on the run.
posted at 10:20 AM
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Funny Answering Machine Messages..."Heaven, God speaking..."
posted at 9:49 AM
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I'm having a boring day; fortunately this has cheered me up no end Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
posted at 9:23 AM
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Wednesday, September 28, 2005
I recently "upgraded" my cell phone. By upgraded I mean one of my mates got a new phone and passed her old one on to me while muttering something about my existing phone and Noah. The 'new ' phone has a much larger memory, takes photos and allows me to Bluetooth it all to my PC (so naturally I'm in geek heaven). I didn't know much about the inner workings of mobile phones before but it only took me about a week to realise that the predictive texting on the phone was still attuned to the vocabulary and preferences of its previous owner. After accidentally texting a cricket score stating that one of the Ashes team had just gone "out for a [ahem] Fuck" I decided to ask her just what kind of language was in the customised dictionary on the phone. She glowered at me. "You'd better take care" she warned " 'cos there are a few other phrases which are likely to pop up by accident. Just double-check any messages containing the word Pod...Rod...Rubes..." She pondered for a moment then continued "...calls...Yank...Yanking...or Viv" Another pause "And be real careful with AUNT" Labels: geek
posted at 10:53 AM
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Monday, September 26, 2005
When plastic action figures go bad: Thor Rolls a Joint - a photoset on FlickrAnd watch out for the pigeon at the end.
posted at 3:44 PM
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Monday, September 19, 2005
 Well shiver me timbers shipmates, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day again! I'm glad I didn't forget it this year; they made me walk the plank last time that happened. Avast Behind!Late update:
My pirate name is:
Mad Mary Rackham
 Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.
posted at 10:09 AM
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Boing Boing: Another guess-what-this-thing-is-quiz - proof, if proof were needed, that the Internet is still largely the domain of boys with toys...
(even if they cannot identify them)
Meanwhile over at Metafilter, their toys are a bit more radical.
You may need to go lie down now.
posted at 10:09 AM
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Making Light: Folksongs Are Your Friends - guess it's time for us all to starting singing nasally, cup one hand over an ear and "sail from Liverpool, never to return".
posted at 9:58 AM
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
One cold November evening several years ago I was out in the West End with a group of colleagues several of whom were American. The conversation quickly got round to the fast-approaching Thanksgiving holiday since they were having to work their schedules around the event. Displaying a stunning lack of their own country's history as well as everyone else's, one of them suddenly asked "So, do you Brits celebrate Thanksgiving too?" While I was hunting frantically for the hidden camera I assumed must be somewhere in the room, I heard one of my British coworkers cheerfully answering the question: "Sure we do. Except we have it on 6th September instead" "Why is that" asked the clueless 'merkin. "Because we celebrate when the Pilgrim Fathers set sail" Happy Thanksgiving. (date checked courtesy of Today-in-History)Labels: fuckwittery
posted at 11:24 AM
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Rap star attacks Bush at benefit: "West was cut off mid-speech after he criticised Mr Bush, and the cameras switched to comedian Chris Tucker.
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NBC, which broadcast the event, said 'it would be most unfortunate if the efforts of the artists and the generosity of millions of Americans are overshadowed by one person's opinion'."
Silly me, I thought this kind of thing only went on in Communist Russia....
posted at 11:08 AM
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