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Shock - Inhaling Pigs? Brains Is Bad For You
2008-02-05 13:12:00 Who’d have thunk it? More About: Shock , Brains , Pigs
Virgin Gyms Are Dirty
2008-02-04 19:10:00 OK, it’s name and shame time. I held back last time, but now I’m downright angry. The Virgin gym I’m temporarily going to is horribly grubby. I have ONCE seen the changing rooms being cleaned. NEVER seen the gym itself being cleaned. And it’s a busy place – lots of juicy standing orders flowing in ... More About: Dirty , Gyms
McShit
2008-01-28 18:44:00 You simply can’t make this kind up thing up. McDonalds, one of the world’s most despicable companies, are today officially approved in Britain to give out their own exam certificates up to degree level. Would that be an A-level in de-greasing, garbology or obesitology? And do you want fries with that?
Hackers Post YouTube Video Declaring War on Scientology
2008-01-26 11:51:00 This is one scary video, posted by the hackers who recently brought down the Scientologist’s website. If I was Tom Cruise, I would be afraid, very afraid. But I suppose if you can trounce Xenu, you can defeat anything, right Tom? More About: Video , Youtube , Scientology , Post , Hackers
Gym Sins/1
2008-01-22 09:34:00 Over the past few years, I’ve been to the majority of gyms in central London - and, in one way or another, found most of them wanting in one way or another. The best gyms of all are old-fashioned boxing gyms. Should you happen to live near one (unlikely), go for it. Sadly, they are a ... More About: Rants , Sins
Payback!
2008-01-20 16:06:00 Just received an e-mail saying that the first monthly repayment from loans made to Kiva at Christmas has arrived. I’m very impressed with this creative and humanitarian use of the Internet. The loan in question was made to a 34-year old woman who sells eggplant, okra, and tomatoes in at a market in Sassandra, a ... More About: Payback
David Lynch on the iPhone
2008-01-19 13:51:00 I couldn’t agree more… More About: Iphone , David , David Lynch
TubeClan - An Intelligent YouTube!
2008-01-16 12:41:00 My mate John Buckman has started a new website - TubeClan. The idea is very simple - it features the best videos from YouTube, edited by John and Jan. I’ve always found YouTube to be a frustrating experience - yes, there are some great nuggets there, but a whole lot of drek, too. TubeClan carefully ... More About: Youtube , Intelligent
"One Of Us? Was Nuts"
2008-01-11 08:00:00 Having just listened to Lewis Black’s excellent autobiography, I’m a recent convert to his laconic humor… More About: Nuts
The Vista Upgrade
2008-01-10 08:00:00 Still in my let-me-entertain-you mode, here’s another parody that I find delightful, and oh so pungent. More About: Vista
Gravitational Humor
2008-01-09 08:00:00 This is such a sweetly humorous parody from the BMJ. I spent years ploughing through medical journals and so much of this is absolutely spot-on. It deserves to become a classic. More About: Humor
Liber Facerum Delenda Est
2008-01-08 15:00:00 My friend and IT consultant Ajay tells me that, in many of the companies he visits, FaceBook is running constantly on employees machines - sometimes hidden by a spreadsheet or Word document, but basically - it’s 9-5 FaceBook, with a smattering of work to hide the tracks. This is confirmed by a recent survey which estimates ... More About: Elen
Aquatic Heresy
2008-01-08 08:00:00 In the world of the underwater gardener, the name Takashi Amano is sacrosanct. His god-like creations are the envy of aquarists everywhere. The guy is so famous he’s even had a shrimp named after him (which, incidentally, I’ve bred -no mean feat). Here is a typical Amano layout: And here are lots more. They ... More About: Heresy , Eres , Quat , Aquatic
Truckamerarderie
2008-01-07 23:00:00 Several people have pointed out that Hiob’s Truck Cam referenced below hasn’t been working for a few days (guess Hiob needs time off over Christmas, too). Pleased to say that the link is now working. Additionally, for your vicarious trucking pleasure, why not consider: TruckBuddy’s Cam Trucking Webcam Watch Over The Road
FaceBook - the CIA conspiracy?
2008-01-07 15:00:00 Assessing the mood of blogland this morning, I would say that the tide is definitely turning against FaceBook. It will be a slow exodus, but I predict we’ve seen FaceBook’s best days. Check back with me in 24 months to see. Meantime, here’s an interesting summary of a story that been circulating for some ... More About: Facebook , Conspiracy
FaceBook Part Deux
2008-01-06 14:00:00 Just to amplify on the previous post. Blogger Robert Scoble was running a script on FaceBook to collect the names, email addresses and birthdays of his friends. This is hardly a high crime and misdemeanour, is it? I’d say wanting to put your friends’ details into your own Microsoft Outlook address book, rather than have them ... More About: Facebook , Part
FaceBook ?Fessions
2008-01-06 08:00:00 I confess - I’m a lousy FaceBooker. I don’t log in enough, I don’t respond to join requests enough, I certainly don’t keep my activities well enough logged, and I don’t join in all the latest and greatest apps. It’s a wonder I have any friends left at all. Thing is, I’ve never really been able ... More About: Facebook , Fess
Lies of the Tooth Fairy
2008-01-05 17:28:00 Watching Hilary Clinton’s rally in Penacook, NH at the moment, I am again partly appalled and partly outraged by the popular American perception of the British health care system. An audience member (I know, it’s probably rigged) has just asked Ms. Clinton about reforming the American healthcare system so that "it does not duplicate the ... More About: Lies , Tooth Fairy
Keep On Truckin? In ?08!
2007-12-31 13:00:00 A very Happy New Year to all my readers? and here?s just the way to celebrate it, riding shotgun with moustachioed Polish-American trucker Hiob, as he broadcasts live from his 18-wheeler all across America! Personally, I think Truck Cams are going to be big in ?08! Share This
PC Update
2007-12-20 15:56:00 Hi ? I’ve been really cruddy these past few days ? heroic quantities of phlegm with resulting phlegmatic behaviour ? seems like everyone in town has either had this or are having. Felt much better this am, then needed to go back to bed two hours later. But I’m on the mend. ... More About: Update
Crewmember deaths by shirt color
2007-12-18 14:00:00 This is why I love Trekkies. Who else would do this? I think the lesson of wearing red shirts is quite clear. Share This More About: Color , Deaths , Shirt
Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
2007-12-17 18:23:00 Many scientists say the threat has been overblown. [Chief executive of Synth etic Genomics, J. Craig] Venter notes that his synthetic genomes are spiked with special genes that make the microbes dependent on a rare nutrient not available in nature. J. Craig Venter!!! Did you not see JURASSIC PARK??? “I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power ... More About: Life , Forms , New Life
They Really Are Watching You - Official
2007-12-17 10:50:00 ?Within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans? phone usage.? - The New York Times, yesterday. This is clearly nothing to do with the threat from terrorism, and everything to do with moving towards a surveillance state. No sensible person would object to ... More About: Watching , Official
Word 2007, You Are The Spawn of Satan
2007-12-14 16:41:00 Weeks after making the transition, my productivity is still less than 40% that of Word 2003. So many things to hate, so little time… I used to have all the functions I wanted on a single toolbar, and could access them all with a single click. Now, most common functions are three clicks or more ... More About: Satan , Spawn , Pawn
Jews? Subway Hero A Muslim
2007-12-13 10:03:00 I like this news story from my namesake ? it?s heart warming. Share This More About: Muslim , Jews , Subway , Hero
News From Doppelgängerland
More articles from this author:2007-12-11 10:20:00 This is what our hive mind of Peter Cox has been up to in the last few hours? Media analyst Peter Cox said Black came across as arrogant the minute he stepped foot in Australia. “To me he was an intellectual wanker. He tried very hard to sound much smarter than he was.” CHUCK IN AIR RAGE ... More About: News 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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