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In family vocational news, congratulations to my dad and my sister who both landed jobs this week, the former with OSH and the latter with Newfield Primary School, both of which are in Invercargill, thus making my mum a very happy lady indeed.
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Hot from the offices of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency comes the Live Deformed Frog Cam. Be extremely afraid.
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And while we're on the topic of spam today, Salon Technology's "The In-Box" column provides a witty on-going commentary on the joys of unsolicited e-mail.
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Simon and Steven (st.seb daddys) redesign in a throbbing disco stylee - good work lads!
‹ 30.11.00
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Stop the press! According to the next mail I received, I should be buying "Steroid Alternatives!" to "Get BIG and RIPPED!" Maybe that'll help me with the whole Natascha/Lady V thing?
‹ 30.11.00
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I love spam. Natascha and would like to offer me a free subscription to her lovingly composed newsletter, "Secrets About Girls". Lion Sciences National would love it if I bought "Lady V", the revolutionary woman's sexual sensation. And last, but by no means least, an anonymous friend would like me to undergo extensive training course in "How to Collect Judicial Judgments". Wow! It must be my lucky day.
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A friend who's doing some volunteering for BUAV at the moment, alerted me to the "Send A Cow" project. Apparently they used to physically send cows to Africa - sort of a bovine package holiday, strictly self-catering of course, and all in the name of charidee. The official site is under reconstruction at the moment but there are a few snippets of information here. Moo.
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Yes, I've returned after a brief unannounced absence - playing tour guide to Sarah who's in town after a conference in America. The last couple of days have involved ramen noodles, cocktails, modern art, pub lunches and puppet shopping ... all in various proportions. I feel as though I've walked off several weeks worth of sloth as well - bring on the festive season!
‹ 30.11.00
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I like stuff. So sue me. But you don't have to buy nothing to make a point - you can buy stuff that helps other people. Like pottery and stuff from Oxfam. Or one of the pizzas from Pizza Express that saves marine life or restores Venice. Or something. Me, I'm going to buy myself a large Honey Krusher or two after work tonight (for myself) and go to a "for charity PA" tomorrow night (for homeless people). How about you?
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Prolific has loads of tasty links today. Just thought I'd mention that.
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When you used to ask Jeeves if he was gay, you got a response along the lines of what you now get if you ask him if he's well endowed. But if you ask him if he's gay now, you get something much more entertaining.
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It's a little out of date as this year draws to a close, but the U.S. top two-hundred prescriptions for 1999 makes for some interesting reading, especially when Prozac comes in at number ten, above heart and diabetes medications (amongst others).
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The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan: Power to our Afghani sisters!
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A bastion of the onscreen portrayl of the American high school was the obligatory biology class frog dissection. Such forays into vivisection were mercifully lacking in the New Zealand education system, but now those of us who missed out can now experience the joys online.
‹ 24.11.00
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Continuing Anne Robinson madness ... God bless the Guardian! For us harried noomeejahoors™, their MediaGuardian site is publishing a list of the self-styled "Queen of Mean's" best put-downs for the day. Insulting friends and loved-ones will never be the same again.
[via interconnected]
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"You are the rudest gameshow hostess. Goodbye."
[via extenuating circumstances]
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And just when you thought today couldn't get any weirder ... Indian eunuchs!
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Tired of Adbusters? Looking to expand your culture jamming horizons? "Get quicky with the sticky".™
‹ 23.11.00
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Sheer brilliance: the Halfbakery. Sign-up and submit your own half-baked ideas for critical discussion by the masses. Surely you can do better than "virtual cemetery flowers", "alcoholic water" and the "Moebius roller coaster", right? Right?
‹ 23.11.00
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No mints on the pillow for you at some swanky new Swiss hotels however, would you like fries with that?
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Make lard a lifestyle choice at eatdangerously.com. Their motto? "Live fat, die young, and blow health out your ass!"
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Hey Ma ... Sony made a mechanical man! Oh wait, you can't buy it. Dang. At least that'll prevent the networks dreaming up "Small Wonder: The Next Generation", ergo civilisation won't implode. 'Rah!
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"Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial."Dane, Aspiring "Dog".
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From the Salon wires:
"It's such an addictive environment; it's like rats in an overcrowded maze -- they start attacking each other."Another article about weblogging? No. Just an interesting write-up on a weird hoax affecting the apparently crack-tastic Everquest community.
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Looking for that extra special gift this Christmas but can't be bothered with the High Street crowds? Why not buy what everyone else has lost at the Unclaimed Baggage Center.
‹ 22.11.00
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Not even Ronald McDonald can save you now ...
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Eight hundred and forty-eight years later, their marriage won a nice posh lady £1,000,000 ... catch up on your history with a quick guide to Henry and Eleanor.
‹ 22.11.00
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Useful spam for once! SEVENtwentyfour crawled brainsluice, found that the link to March's archive was broken throughout (oops!) and mailed me to let me know. A little free advice never goes astray, eh?
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The definitive article on that damn annoying web-safe colour palette.
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Poking fun at the "popular kids", with tongue firmly in cheek, is the The A-List Fan Club. Tom professes to be the Andie MacDowell of B-minus List webloggers ... does that mean I get to be the Jason Patric?
[via plasticbag]
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When Nixon met Elvis.
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Q. What do you call Postman Pat after he retires?
A. Pat.
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Kristin writes about her life in the 7minutes mailing list:
"When my fever finally went down today, after 10 days of being sick, I felt empty inside, clean, and tired, and....clear, like burning a field after a harvest. All of a sudden, with perfect clarity, I could see where I was going wrong in my life, and why, and without beating myself up about anything, I can not only see where change needs to be made, but I have the desire to make those changes. It remains to be seen how long this little epiphany is going to last, but it should be a fun ride, while it lasts."I've been a fan for ages. You should sign up too.
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The weekend in hypertext #4: Brought two sets of strangers together and watched as we all got happy at their hour, watched most of this, caught the tail end of this and saw all of this, shopped for them and him here because it's that time of year, lunched here, coffeed here and listened to this and this.
‹ 20.11.00
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'Tis the season: While Tom experiments with an open-source design project, Meg goes orange and white with a funky new look (which I was more than happy to offer my 2p to). The best of British, kids!
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brainsluice ... now with search capabilities!
‹ 18.11.00
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Daily weirdness: "Ship of Jokes" starring Uncle Gabby and Drinky Crow.
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When gurning met clubbing: An unlikely combination but still, it beats posing/sneering for a bit of club-side fun.
‹ 17.11.00
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On the literary front, you could do worse than to read William Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" (just completed last night). The book weaves around quite a bit and the ending was a little vague but it's the little details about Gibson's work I love, none of which I can remember to relate to you now. Suffice to say, the future of cyberpunk is most definitely assured.
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By popular request, the pics in the header are now clickable.
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"Filler" shocker! Polly Esther comes out as a shallow gay man. Who would've thought?
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Heteroflexibility: "I was angry that they would throw out the politics and the struggles of naming that had come before them. And what did they throw it out for? A monstrosity of a word, a mix of sexology and yoga practices."
‹ 16.11.00
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Jack Chick needs a reality check. Those top-quality (and not at all wacky) religious tracts you seem to find in the most unusual of places (BT producer John found one the tube yesterday) now have a home on the web. I love their links on the side: under the heading "Things To Do", we have "Free Catalog", "What's New?", "Online Reading", "Meet Jesus", "Take Survey" ... hang on, back up ... meet Jesus? Now that's taking the web to all new heights.
‹ 16.11.00
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Blogging news: Luke much anticipated redesign has occured and the result looks great! There's also two new additions to the sidebar (two which should have gone up a long time ago): Matt's Interconnected and Darren's Linkmachinego ... top notch stuff the both of them.
‹ 16.11.00
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After a lousy night's sleep ('flu related, not alcohol induced), it was fantastic to see a letter waiting for me at the foot of the stairs this morning. Grandma fills her letters with the mundane day-to-day activities of a woman approaching eighty along with all the gossip of the small rural district she lives in, all written in this fantastic cursive script. She swears like a miner and smokes like a train and makes me miss family like nothing else.
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Some chums and I drank and yarned last night away in Noho (aka Marylebone) at the Crown & Sceptre: cheers for a fun evening boys and girls.
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"Squirrels are just rats with good PR."Kylie (of gusset fame, now in London no less!)
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The yuppie revival has begun. Run screaming for the hills while you still can.
[via metro]
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New Zealand Vodafone employees say no to "me love you long time" antics.
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"It happened on one fine day that a young Kiwi, living in a land at the bottom of the world, did chance across a contraption of punga logs, lashed together with ropes of the strongest flax. And verily did the curious bird climb aboard this raft and was soon swept out to sea by the strong winds that Papatuanuku did blow upon him. After many days and many nights the Kiwi was washed ashore, cold and frightened, in a strange and hostile land. In this land, he wandered alone for as many days and nights again before meeting a group of welcoming strangers who did show him the stupefying nectar and the food that made his beak hurt with fire. And it came to pass that many friendships were formed and that the Kiwi lived contentedly with his new friends, in this new land, for as many days and nights once more."
Chipshop's Fables.
The amoral of the story, dear reader? "Don't get blown out unless you want a good time."
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brainsluiceUK: so did you like the site or not?How true.
kiwibogun: yeah, its a site about nothing.
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After my earlier rant on "Badjelly the Witch", I've finally managed to track an audio copy down. I've said it before and I'll say it again, viva la Napster!
‹ 14.11.00
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My sis' wants to whiz up a CD for me for Christmas and bloody hell it's hard to try and find something approximating the "your current faves plus some oldies for good measure" concept, but in case you're interested here's "Now That's What I Call Dave Vol.1".
‹ 14.11.00
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Hurrah for Amazon gift certificates and their kind donors! I'm now the soon-to-be owner of Vonnegut's "Timequake", Coupland's "Miss Wyoming", "Aardman Classics" on DVD and the Ministry of Sound's "The Annual 2000" (in blue leather, no less).
‹ 14.11.00
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Practical advice for rescuing cats stuck up trees: includes such gems as "Do Cats Ever Die In A Tree?", "What To Tell A Person Upset Over A Stranded Cat" and "Helpful Hints On Climber Selection".
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Beware the little black helicopters.
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Baroness Young: senile old biddy or calculating bigot? For the love of [insert higher deity here] woman, get with the programme. Even little old Noo Zullun can get it's act together enough to equalise the age of consent at 16 ... and it's been that way since 1986. Sheesh.
‹ 14.11.00
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Liz Windsor peeved at mobile phone ring tones: She's not the only one - I seriously think some people's sole purpose at work is to download all the different phone choons and test them sequentially from nine through five. This is second only to people checking their voice-mail on speakerphone ... you don't want me to go there </rant>
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Tom ups the ante (anti?) with a reductivist redesign. Am I supposed to like it? I'm not sure. Can I dig it? Yes I can.
‹ 14.11.00
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The weekend in hypertext #3: Visited them on several occasions which included a round of these with a couple of these, ploughed on through this and this, was disappointed by their normally excellent range of these, went for lunch here with them, went to watch this but was stymied by their weird screening times, so ended up watching half of this instead (there's a reason why only half was watched).
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A big old PDA for the pashmina set: meet Audrey (Audrey? Who the hell names an appliance Audrey?).
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New(ish) additions to the sidebar: Blue Ruin (was Bloglet ... now bluer!), Extenuating Circumstances, HumanLint and Wherever You Are. Check them out - they're excellent.
And while I'm shouting out, a big "cheers!" for the brainsluice-related public and private acknowledgements/kind wishes from Caroline, Graybo, Jen, Luke, May, Meg, Owen, Simon, Toby, Tom and Vaughan.
‹ 11.11.00
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Boxing? Nah, not for me thanks. Still, New Zealanders are always ones to back the local kid so go David Tua. Forget his alarmingly high hair (no David, "House Party" does not need another sequel) ... what makes this man special is his unintentional comedy stylings. A few years ago, Mr Tua appeared on one of the celebrity editions of the NZ "Wheel of Fortune": notable quotes included, "I'll have an 'O' for 'awesome'" and "I'd like to buy a vowel ... 'P'". Bless 'im.
‹ 11.11.00
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For crazy/mad early-evening bangin' house and trance (as the kids are calling it) you can't go far wrong with Sid's. Especially when the company is the three crazy/mad Strine lasses you met on your summer holiday in Greece. I also squeezed some time in to take the dog for a walk to Rupert Street (read "dragged semi-reluctantly but had fun howling all the same").
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A rejoinder from John (Senior Producer: BT Ignite) ... see yesterday for context.
‹ 10.11.00
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Albeit embryonic, gblogs.org.uk has launched. Watch that space!
‹ 10.11.00
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Lack of updates for today due to lunch-to-evening pub frivolites with the work crew ... apologies.
‹ 10.11.00
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Where football and gameshows collide: Who Wants To Be A Beckhamheir? (go on ... ask the Muppets!).
‹ 9.11.00
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Due to the fact that I sold my soul to Microsoft a long time ago, a few post-launch amendments were necessary for those viewing in Netscape ... things should look a little better now.
‹ 9.11.00
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Dear John (Senior Producer: BT Ignite),
Please understand that I do not operate a Gillian Anderson fansite, nor do I have any intention of doing so. You however, are unnaturally obsessed with Captain Beefheart and that, my friend, is an entirely scarier concept.
Regards,
(Cockney) Dave Pannett.
‹ 9.11.00
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There have been a few additions to Tim Burton's Stainboy since I last reported ... now thrill to his exploits as he takes on Toxicboy, Bowling Ball Head and Robotboy!
‹ 9.11.00
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Madge to play London's Brixton Academy: tickets will be like gold-dust, worse luck. Christmas present for moi, anyone? ;)
‹ 9.11.00
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From the "WTF?" files: I just received a crap joke, ostensibly sent to someone called Madeleine Johnson (apparently Ms Johnson is a bank worker, at least according to her e-mail address). Note to self ... check multiple personalities for any evidence of a "Madeleine Johnson" ... if found, commit self immediately.
‹ 9.11.00
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Okay, announcement time. Welcome to brainsluice - the weblog that used to be cortex (and keeping the vaguely neuro-related name). After, several months in the planning (as certain people will attest to!) it's good to finally have a domain name and some space to call me own. Anyway enough throat-clearing (I've done enough of that over the past few days with this manky cold) ... on with the show!
‹ 8.11.00
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No posts yesterday ... at home for the day coughing and spluttering. (h)Ack.
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The weekend in hypertext #2: Went shopping with her to buy several of these (well, cheap knockoffs anyway), then had dinner here with a few of them. Good times. Then proceeded to here, pulled out those at midnight along with thirty others in the party, and didn't arrive home until six the following morning. Feh. Went and brought this on an impulse while recovering. Played with them, celebrated him and watched this.
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Sorry, that's it for today kids ... it's moving time ... watch this space.
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Kick some arse with religious action figures (is it just me or is that URL kinda dodgy - forced indoctrination anyone?).
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Meg, Luke, Mat and I went a-dinin' and a-drinkin' last night in the vicinity of Covent Garden. Muchus funnus was had by all, although no-one would lift the Native American's loin cloth at The Maple Leaf, probably because of his scarily accurate hair (this post really should have come at the start of the day by my concentration = 0 at the moment, as is Luke's too apparently - maybe it was something in the water?).
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Mugshots of the rich and famous.
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Dad used to be fond of telling this yarn on occasion.
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The blog-a-blog-day concept continues ... this time, it's Lexi's turn.
‹ 3.11.00
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More quotables: "Well ... I ate half a carton of Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream for breakfast this morning, and while I enjoyed it at the time, now I feel a wave of discombobulated bitchiness coming on." (Polly Esther, "Filler", suck.com).
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Only two hours after getting absolutely drenched on the way to work, it's now blue sky and sunshine in central London. Sheer madness I tell you.
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In an e-mail from my friend Linda: "Sorry to hear you are wet. Everyone here is walking around with socks on because of wet trotter covers ..." Trotter covers? That's a new one ... love it!
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If you've got a bit of cash lying around the house, buy my cousin's farm in beautiful rural New Zealand. Believe it or not, you'll get change from £40,000.
‹ 3.11.00
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Managers suck (except for mine, who've rehired me for another six months and given me a nice fat pay rise - mwah!).
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Found in an old work to-do-list while tidying up: "Take off exam thang at 3pm but only comment it out as it will reappear like Jesus, or ET." WTF? Must've been on crack that day.
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I know you've all been curious as to exactly what it is but now you can read all about it online ... the homosexual agenda revealed!
[in a roundy-bout way via Luke via Darren]
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Urgh ... rain. Rain. I even got wet underneath my my jacket. Ack.
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<chuckle chuckle>
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Empowered womyn prevail at Heartless Bitches International: no mercy ladies, no mercy.
‹ 2.11.00
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Is it just me or does Robbie Williams look like he's about to do a turn as Linda Blair's Regan MacNeil in "The Exorcist"? Stand clear of the projectile vomit ...
Speaking of which, London kids can see the new version in a couple of weeks time at the London Film Festival. They'll be hurling in the aisles for sure.
‹ 2.11.00
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There's a table upstairs at work, manned by some luckless employee, offering the working class £1000 if we come up with an innovative idea for the company. Now hang on a minute, I give you my bright idea (which you can obviously use, and presumably make money off, for perpetuity) and you give me a grand ... something doesn't seem quite right there.
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It looks as though Katy is about to get a new playmate.
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True tales of human stupidity or just a load of old cobblers? Check out the Darwin Awards' inbox.
‹ 2.11.00
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Once again, Liam Gallagher feels the need to prove his idiocy to the world at large, this time at the Q Awards. Do not expect to slag off everyone's favourite diminutive pop princess and get away with it. Northern twat.
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You know it's going to be a great day at work when one of the lead video stories on the portal is monks pulling buses with their penises (this story is only up for today - hurry hurry!).
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Blimmin' hell, it's November already.
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I'm gobsmacked that more English folk have never heard of Spike Milligan's "Badjelly the Witch": we were basically raised on the thing during Sunday morning kids radio shows (yes before Pokemon wrecked the world, children actually stayed in bed and listened to the wireless for entertainment ... strange but true). After a moment's panic attack (on my part), Internet guru Luke found out that it's available at Waterstone's. It looks as though they're animating it too but in the meantime, I urge everyone to go and hunt down this fantastic tale at once before I turn you all into boy-girl soup.
‹ 1.11.00
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Individuality conquers information overload as weblogs proliferate: "Combining the personal perspective of a journal with the vast databank of cyberspace, a good weblog can take you in a hundred different directions in just a few minutes. Compelling and interactive, it represents the most successful new literary form of the Internet Age." Cool.
[via blogger]
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