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Mix tapes made high school go round, right? Don't worry, you're not alone.
‹ 31.10.00
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"There's a fine line between participation and mockery." How true. Get all aphoristic at Aphorisms Galore.
‹ 31.10.00
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The weekend in hypertext (#1 in a new series): Had a marathon of this, ate this, went and visited them (+ their cute flatmate!), watched this, faffed around in bed doing this, listened to her and him, bought one of their items and started reading this.
‹ 31.10.00
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Discerning webloggers bare their souls at The Mayfly Project ... go and contribute now.
‹ 28.10.00
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New Zealand energy drink V has a relatively bizarre site done in a Terry Gilliam stylee. Those crazy Kiwis ;)
‹ 28.10.00
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"Sparkle and Decay: Shimmering Space Gods and Brooding Vampire Poets": an interesting compare and contrast piece at britannica.com looking at glam and goth.
‹ 28.10.00
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For ages I've been trying to work out where to go to find some decent vocal housey type choons to bop the night away to and last night it was mission accomplished! The DJ was excellent (and looked scarily like Meg (the not so mentioned one)) and the happy hour(s) lethal. For my sins I was banished to night bus purgatory - a hideous punsishment I assure you, overseas readers.
‹ 27.10.00
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The nightmare project has finally gone "live" ... praise be to a higher deity for that.
‹ 27.10.00
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For all those disgruntled workers out there, just say "I-Resign!"
‹ 27.10.00
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On a bracing autumn night, consuming cold lager, watching opera in Covent Garden from a balcony bar and yabbering away in the company of Jen, Mat and Meg ... life in London is good.
‹ 27.10.00
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It's blog-a-blog day at geekgrrl dot log. You go grrl!
‹ 26.10.00
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Blogging on a dare: gotta love it! Above we have the lovely Meg, doyenne of these pages, screencapped in all her radiant glory. She's the pimp with the mostest, baby.
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Can anyone spell 'hackneyed'? H-a-c-k-n-e-y-e-d ... 'hackneyed'.
‹ 25.10.00
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Work yourself into a spooky pre-Halloween musical frenzy at ThereminWorld... the opening bars of "Scooby Doo" will never be the same again.
‹ 25.10.00
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This weblog is about to live in interesting times - watch for exciting new developments soon, finally set in significant motion today.
‹ 25.10.00
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Eudora's MoodWatch purports to flag offensive e-mail on a delightful scale of one to three chilies of offensiveness. As one of its many benefits, the system "warns you if your drafted email contains potentially offensive language": bing bong, Ministry of Truth calling!
[via salon article]
‹ 25.10.00
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Giftsforbirds.com: now that's one claaassssyyy name for an e-commerce site.
‹ 25.10.00
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Weird dream from a few nights ago which I suddenly remembered yesterday: I went up to Anne Robinson (her of "The Weakest Link" fame) at a party and said, "You are the weakest link ... goodbye!", in my best impersonation voice ever. However, she turned out to be a really nice lady and not at all like the Cruella de Ville-inspired game host creation which appears on screen. Interpretations?
‹ 24.10.00
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Friday night saw the gang in attendance at The Donkey Show - a tripped-out, disco-themed version of that tripped-out, fairy-themed tale "A Midsummer Night's Dream". All in all a brilliant night out ... highly recommended for a 1970s choon reacquaintance (and the eye-candy wasn't half bad either!).
‹ 24.10.00
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In my haste last week, I forgot to give out big props to Caroline's new design - simple, elegant, yummy (in a 'lite' way of course).
‹ 24.10.00
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Apparently, Carol Gurney teaches you how to communicate with your pets. Man thinks: "Stop humping my leg, Rover". Man says to Rover: "Woof". Rover hears man say: "Woof". End of story.
‹ 21.10.00
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A package from my lovely family arrived this morning: some bank statements, a card and a crazy single by New Zealand poet Sam Hunt called "Your Body Has No Flaw" which put a smile on my face as I rushed to get ready for work. It's the little things in life that count, eh?
‹ 21.10.00
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I agree ... it's a hard 'g'.
‹ 21.10.00
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The studio has been transformed this morning into a hive of rabid shoe designers. The reason? Customatix. Design your own trainers/runners/boots and all it'll cost you, dear punters, is around $US80 ... brilliant stuff. I've already designed a pair decked out in a "new design" colour scheme complete with matching inscription on the heel. It's street-level marketing at it's finest baby!
‹ 20.10.00
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An astute cartoon on New Zealand's "brain drain".
‹ 20.10.00
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The right job needs the right glue. Right? Find out the best one to use at This to That ... a vast mine of useful gluing information.
‹ 20.10.00
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I was in attendance for the first taping of "Good Evening Rockall" last night. Not too bad of a show ... the host (Sue Perkins) was funny in a short, ranting English comedienne way and the panelists were reasonably entertaining. Watch for me tonight on BBC Choice at 10:30pm.
‹ 20.10.00
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From the neuroscience wires #2: Sound improves sight. This is clearly the underlying principle behind the boyband/girlband phenomenon, to wit: "Who on Earth is that caterwauling in such an irritating fashion? Oh ... actually, they're kinda cute ... well, okay, the single's not that bad I guess ... to HMV Jeeves and don't spare the horses!"
‹ 20.10.00
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Meg sparks up her redesign lobe for a spot of Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowening ... farewell to the cinnamon smells and hello to a quasi "Logan's Run" stylee. It looks great!
‹ 19.10.00
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Hurrah for UK bloggers! An entertaining evening appeared to be had by all at The Blue Posts: an entirely different bunch than the last meet (except for a few old stalwarts) so it was nice to put a few new faces to the oeuvres. I managed to quaff four pints of some tasty yet improbably titled lager ("Angusleiderhosen" or something) so was quite chuffed with that effort.
The ever lovely Meg (her top line for the evening: "Chicken tikka on my arsecrack") was tearing around like Lord Snowdon in heat and managed to come up with a fine selection of photos, including a swag of devastatingly unflattering ones of your humble author (see below for example). The equally enchanting Luke and I discussed the finer points of 80s New Zealand television, including everyone's favourite high camp soap opera, "Gloss". So overall, a fun night all round!
‹ 19.10.00
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Thanks to Meg for the inspiration ... get your own hot "Meg vs. Cookie Monster" action here!
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Quote for the day: "Widdecombe's mouth appears to be a fat hole in space time through which we get an occasional glimpse of a parallel nightmare universe."
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Fare thee well, Xena: It looks as though the warrior princess' warrioring days are up. Lesbians everywhere will mourn ... I'll just miss the fantastic vistas of home.
‹ 18.10.00
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The Ally McBeal Drinking Game: "Anybody in the room offers Ally advice (e.g. "No Ally, he's married/ugly/fat/a Rabbi, don't do that!"). They get to finish their drink if they should take their own advice". You get the drift.
‹ 18.10.00
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In Madge news (number [I can't remember] in an occasional series): Sought after URL goes to Ms Ciccone. Those in charge of madonna.com are not pleased.
‹ 18.10.00
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Watch out for hornet stomach juice ... bound to be the next big vodka mixer. Ack.
‹ 16.10.00
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It looks like Crosswinds has finally succumbed to the evil that is the pop-up ad: apologies all round! Rest assured, as soon as my Visa card arrives in the mail I'll be registering a domain name and hooking up some server space of my own as fast as you can say www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk.
‹ 14.10.00
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While away those boring Friday afternoons at work with a browse through the Encyclopedia Mythica: over 5700 articles should keep you busy until five.
‹ 14.10.00
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The inner workings of lava lamps revealed.
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Nail to blame for girl's chronic sore throat: Ouch! That's gotta hurt.
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Name that Muppet: "Stunt fish chucker. Small guy with black hair and a french moustache. Throws and catches boomerang mackerel for a living. Has a frilled collar like a clown. Never really gets a chance to perform, always kyboshed by Kermit."
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Readers weigh in on the mutated Ms Pac Man from Hell: a truly hideous creation which would surely strike fear into the heart of the poor preteen soul unfortunate to receive it.
‹ 12.10.00
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"My Computer Totally Hates Me!" vs. "God, Do I Hate That Bitch": it's always nice to hear both sides of the story.
‹ 11.10.00
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In the continuing saga of failing global currencies, one New Zealand dollar now buys you 27 British pence ... un-be-lievable. I'll definitely be sending some money home in the not too distant future (thanks to Simon for the heads up).
‹ 11.10.00
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Speaking of London-based entertainment guides (as I was yesterday), what happened to e-street.com? One minute it's an excellent and informative site, the next it's imploded. Weird. [Update: all seems to be well again - just one of those glitches I guess]
‹ 11.10.00
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In a frightening display of openness by the US Government's Department of Energy, a detailed chronicle of human radiation experiments is online for your entertainment and edification.
‹ 11.10.00
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The media reaction to the passing of the Human Rights Act is fairly strange - there's only been about a thousand stories along the lines of "Human Rights Act may spell end to brushing teeth" and such. New Zealand passed it's own version in 1993, so us budding law students had the chance to study it a reasonable amount during our degrees. The impact? Not that great. Even successive governments couldn't get their A's into G to implement Consistency 2000, a programme designed to bring all existing legislation into line with the new act. I can therefore confidently assure the British media that they have absolutely nothing to worry about ... you may now return to your tales of Posh and Becks.
‹ 11.10.00
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Just when you thought British tele couldn't get any wackier, along comes "Popcultomania" (Tuesdays, late, Channel 4): an animated/live action game show hosted by Alfred Hitchcock, with Andy Warhol and Che Guevara captaining the teams. Marvellous stuff!
‹ 11.10.00
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The critics yarn about Madge: "Her strategies have permeated the atmosphere so completely that it's hard for her to transcend them" ... "The reason to separate Madonna's music, her image and her media antics is that artistic output has become a byproduct of fame instead of the reason for it - a shift that Madonna is largely responsible for".
‹ 11.10.00
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London-based entertainment guides seem to be popping up left, right and centre these days - I've just thought of an excellent name for one and, beyond belief, the URL is still available. Anyone feeling in the mood for a wee collaborative project?
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I spotted these by the counter at the caf' today and thought how could you make money off of that? Then I read they'd sold 400,000,000 of them. That's one way of doing it I guess.
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Why do all the people in airline safety cards look so gosh darn ridiculous? Someone finally extracts the urine for the benefit of us all: I give you Airtoons.
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Ahh, Kellogg's ... a company dear to the hearts of many of the world's pyromaniacs. Find out why in this treatise on strawberry Pop-Tart blow torches.
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One in ten women find lovers on Internet - I don't know whether to be surprised about this statistic or not. Also of interest in this report: the survey was conducted for New Woman Online which "[i]s a brand extension of New Woman magazine targeted at Diet Coke-break woman." I'm sorry, what kind of woman? How weird to have those lascivious soft-drink gals become their own demographic and in turn, form the basis of a business plan. Crazy old world!
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Forget astrology ... use the UK's number one single on the day you were born to successfully reveal those special innate qualities. Mine was "Always Yours" by Gary Glitter. On second thoughts, don't compare me to Gary Glitter in any way shape or form.
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A while back, I reported on the unfortunate double-entendre in Experts Exchange's URL - expertsexchange.com. This morning I discovered a new one - muffinthemail.co.uk. What're they offering, some kind of home delivery for female genitalia? Nah, apparently it's just gift-boxes of baked goods.
‹ 7.10.00
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Look, it's the celebridee-filled, cleavage-enhanced, coke-fuelled world of high fashion store openings ... how banal. This season, we have the Gucci store opening, the DKNY store opening and the Christian Dior store opening for your viewing pleasure.
‹ 6.10.00
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Yugoslavia kisses off Milosevic: Goodbye you 'orrible man. If I were an evil dictator, and the people grew weary of my tryannical ways and poor sense of personal styling, there'd be much snarling, shaking of fist and yelling of "I'll have my revenge you nasty ingrates!", instead of slinking off into the Balkan night like that little wimp did.
[Aside: I have a related rude joke in my comedy styling repetoire ... mail me if you'd like to hear it]
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I'm sure there's nothing more romantic for some lovely laydee or her lucky fella than to get married in Las Vegas. Over the course of a few years, the term "Vegas" had taken on a new life in New Zealand before I left - just replace the last few syllables of the name of your podunk home-town with those five little letters and you've got an instant derisive term (eg. Invervegas, Ashvegas, Rotovegas). Does this happen elsewhere too? Mail me.
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Star Wars Astrology: Great, I share the same star sign as Luke Skywalker. Oh how marvellous.
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Surf's up! The news does not look good for America's eastern seaboard.
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Livin' In The Eighties ... ahh, the memories ...
‹ 5.10.00
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The Budweiser "Whassup!" meme is kinda fun to mess around with ... some notable parodies already on the market include rasping Grandmas and soon-to-be-hoarse Super Friends (at adcritic.com; requires QuickTime). Pity the beer's so average - if it were a Crayola crayon, it'd be medium ochre.
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I Love Bacon: self-billed as "more fun than a barrel full of Ebola-infested, feces-hurling monkeys". Quite.
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Madonna's "Meow-sic" was purchased in a fit of late shopping at HMV Piccadilly - couldn't find anything I really liked at their sale (unlike most of the UK blogging fraternity) although Blue Velvet on DVD would have been cool. Anyhoo, the album itself is pretty good - some quite trad Madge items mixed in with some interesting electronic guffo. The next question is, "Will she or won't she?" re the Brixton Academy show ...
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Stainboy is Tim Burton's latest creation and is now my new favourite super hero. His presence may just explain those mysterious patches surrounding the BT office water-coolers ... hmmm.
‹ 4.10.00
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Luke mentioned it last week, so I thought I'd do a plug this one ... Ads Infinitum is a classic ten-minute slot looking at crusty old advertisements long overdue their "best before" dates. "Kewzeen" anyone?
‹ 4.10.00
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Update: it looks as though BT laid into bigbrother.co.uk with their mighty sword of justice ... hurrah! I'm not normally one to support "the man" in such a blatant fashion, but it's fairly aggravating when people (a) rip off your work, and (b) do it in such a bad fashion. If you're going to plagiarise, at least do it with a little class people.
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This is a bit belated but welcome back Dan! The Doozer's replacement is great.
‹ 3.10.00
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Find the dot: one of the more interesting illusions from my undergrad psyc days [find out how it works]. See, don't say I don't try and learn ya anything.
‹ 3.10.00
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Tory hack may not be as clever as he once thought ... could it really take from here to Eternity to solve? It's an interesting looking puzzle nonetheless.
‹ 3.10.00
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A nasty cold has been with me ever since I arrived back from Greece. Urgh. Unfortunately, my contract doesn't include any paid sick leave. Fortunately, I have products from the lovely people at pharmaceutical giant Beechams.
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Weekend shenanigans: Saturday night saw the Monopoly Pub Crawl to farewell a couple of friends heading home. I piked and decided to do the "home straight" ... still, that was enough to send me merrily on my way. Those who had started at Old Kent Road were utterly shattered by the time Mayfair finally rolled round, which was understandable enough. The other infamous binge now awaits: the horror that is, the Circle Line Pub Crawl!
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