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Date
20020501
Mustard Man II
Time
09:03
(DAY THREE)

Grand things are happening on the Mustard Man front. The first thing I noticed this morning was the top search result for ‘Mustard Man’ in Google. Dog bless them and their daily indexing. There’s more, but I have to dig through my email first, m’kay?

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Date
20020501

Time
09:11
Mustard Man rated 33 on Daypop before slipping off the charts. It’s currently #34 on Blogdex. We will find him, I know it in my heart.

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Date
20020501

Time
09:13
Check out this special event on the weekend of May 18-19. And it’s in a good cause, too. How touching.

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Date
20020501
Flash Games
Time
09:20
If you’re into Lego, check out Junkbot (as blogged by the lovely Firda).

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Date
20020501

Time
09:33
The following wonderful people have supported us in our search for Mustard Man.

Fark

insignifica.org

chime.tv

toddfederman.com

Off On a Tangent

Juul!

Rankfish

The Ultimate Insult

bigsky.tk

Links are also coming in from about a dozen forums and message boards. Word is spreading. It’s only a matter of time, now…

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Date
20020501

Time
09:44
Snopes: the TV series. You know it makes sense. I’ve had to present fellow workers and webbers with a necessary clue-by-four in the form of a Snopes URL so many times it boggles the mind. Urban legends are not only seductive, they’re damn persistant. Having this kind of information fed to the masses via everyone’s favourite noisebox just has to happen. Please support it any way you can.

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Date
20020501
ITV: DOA
Time
11:07
For those of you who missed it.

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Date
20020501

Time
11:49
Feeling discombobulated? You need a culmative, or maybe one of these breakthrough medical devices

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Date
20020501
Christianity Watch
Time
11:53
Join the Jesus Massive, also known as the SWAT Team for Christ.

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Date
20020501
Photoshopping
Time
11:55
This is an outstanding thread over at Fark. Words don’t begin to do it justice.

(Look out, it’s a big download…)

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Date
20020501
Groovy Movies
Time
12:28
Funny. Very, very funny. (AVI file)

Yet another classic courtesy of punchbaby.com

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Date
20020501

Time
12:38
Nintendo is recruiting gamers to play all day, every day – for $100 a day – as part of a special summer promotion. Not a bad job, so long as your thumbs hold out for the duration.

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Date
20020501

Time
12:44
Have fun being an air traffic controller. Coffee, Speed and No-Doze not supplied.

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Date
20020501
May Day
Time
12:46
From urban75.com comes 15 Reasons To Be Angry. If this gets you worked up enough to get your skates on and get into town with the rest of the soap-dodgers, then please take the time to read the following legal advice. Looking at my watch, I can see that the Mayday in Mayfair event is just about to start.

Hmm, I can’t help but wonder how this one will turn out, especially considering what happened last year. You can tell that even Ananova are just waiting for something exciting to happen. After all, it has been a pretty slow news day so far.

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Date
20020501
May Day (Again)
Time
13:15
No TV? Watch the police milling about in Oxford St, waiting for trouble live on webcam.

I’m hoping this dog will put in an appearance.

[UPDATE – The webcam I linked to above is suffering from a heavy load today. Funny that. Here’s a whole bunch of alternatives to help you follow the action in London.)

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Date
20020501

Time
14:30
10 things you should learn before you leave school.

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Date
20020501

Time
14:47
The Dallas Morning News doesn’t like it when people deeplink – so, in the spirit of May Day…

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Date
20020501

Time
14:55
Football, soccer, whatever you want to call it, it’s a sport for wimps. You want a man’s game? Try Aussie Rules.

John Hopoate, eat your heart out!

(If you enjoy this story, pop on over to the related Fark thread).

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Date
20020501

Time
15:47
When Mark Shuttleworth returns from space, everybody dress in Ape suits.

Pass it on.



It’s an old gag, BTW. You’ll find this short rundown of the original variants particularly informative and amusing.

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Date
20020501
Mayja Vu
Time
15:55
IndyMedia reports that 2,000 protestors are hemmed in at Trafalgar Square. The BBC webcam is mysteriously whited out, and the Camvista version is offline too. Earthcam is ‘temporarily offline for scheduled maintenance’. Yeah, and I bet I know who scheduled it. One can’t help but feel a little paranoid when this kind of thing happens…

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Date
20020501

Time
16:48
Attention, busy executives!

You can now enjoy Hamlet as a Powerpoint Presentation over a cup of coffee, and still have time to give your secretary a good seeing to before lunch.

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Date
20020502

Time
07:50
I caught our 4 year old, Jack, looking at a book waaaay after bedtime last night.

“Jack, you know you’re not supposed to be reading!”

“Dad, you know I can’t read!”

Ah, Yes. Touché…

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Date
20020502

Time
07:55
Angry parents demanded the resignation of a California high school vice principal Tuesday because she lifted the skirts of teenage girls at a dance in front of men and male classmates to make sure they were wearing “appropriate” underwear. Also on CNN, those robots in disguise, Transformers, are making a comeback. No, the two stories are not interchangeable… (but if you like, you may now take a quick peak down your own trousers and check for mechanical parts or sensible underpants – if you have both, good for you).

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Date
20020502

Time
08:01
Deep Throat may finally be named. About a week after Linda Lovelace leaves us. Could one of the oldest jokes in politics be truer than anybody dared to believe?

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Date
20020502

Time
08:07
This is ‘the very best that the Internet has to offer’?

You might want to chip in and vote in the upcoming Webby Awards, even if a lot of the nominations are pretty lame. Yes, even All Your Base is there. The members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences obviously don’t get out much.

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Date
20020502

Time
08:13
I love the web. In fact, there are days when I could just kiss my monitor. Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to present the Velvet Elvis art collection.

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Date
20020502

Time
08:15
Bloggage will be light from here until about late afternoon. London awaits.

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Date
20020502
Flash Games
Time
15:36
It’s time to look outside the blue square.

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Date
20020502

Time
16:05
May Dog bless my wife and keep her. She went out on a special trip today to secure a cold six-pack of Victoria Bitter (not an easy thing to do around here). For those not in the know, Fosters is regarded as the equivalent of cat’s piss in Australia. Up and down the eastern seaboard, the drink of the working clarses (oh, I say) is VB – and with good reason. They changed the name of the UK import for a while here, as the poms thought ‘bitter’ meant ‘bitter’. It doesn’t in this case. VB is the lager of choice for Aussie east-coasters, be you from NSW or Victoria (Queensland being a separate nation unto itself). On this, at least, these two small country town conglomerates can agree.

I have a cold can right next to me now. The sun is shining. All is right with the world. Halle(hic)lujah!

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Date
20020503

Time
08:38
Australian prostitutes worn out by US sailors had to close up shop for a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down. In a completely unrelated story, 55 gallons of goat semen has been found abandoned in a US nature preserve .

[UPDATE – That boat full of US sailors is now headed for Tasmania.]

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Date
20020503

Time
08:44
It could happen!

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Date
20020503

Time
08:53
Warning: Importing.dbx files from a backup CD really, really screws up Outlook Express (as the buggers are classified as ‘read only’). Here’s the fix. Now to try and recover all of those ‘lost’ folders. Ho-hum.

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Date
20020503

Time
08:56
Hollywood froths at the mouth, fearing a Napster-style movie trade.

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Date
20020503
Mustard Man II
Time
09:31
(DAY FOUR)

Could this be Mustard Man? I’ve heard from three people so far who insist that it is. We’ll see what proof I can dig up…

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Date
20020503

Time
10:34
Prosecutors said they will drop assault charges against a man who scuffled with two teenage boys he found hiding in his 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom closet. At 4a.m., no less.

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Date
20020503

Time
10:39
There’s a very popular link doing the rounds suggesting that the Simpsons may be axed. It would appear, however, that Matt Groening was mis-quoted. To the cynical, it may even appear that he just has a very clever publicist.

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Date
20020503

Time
11:58
Is HIV really the cause of AIDS? These people don’t seem to think so.

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Date
20020503

Time
12:02
Meet Jakob Nielsen’s fan club.

(A groovy link, as blogged by Smuj.)

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Date
20020503
Yet Another Lame Quiz
Time
12:08
How would you die in a horror movie?

Hmm, I’m not sure – but in my dream it always starts with the damn torch going on the fritz. By the way, if you ever hear scary music in the basement – GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE!

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Date
20020503

Time
12:56
According to this article, horses can’t vomit.

I beg to differ.

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Date
20020503
History Revised
Time
13:27
Some good work on this theme over at SomethingAwful.com, showing that they can come close to the sublime material at Fark. From time to time.

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Date
20020503

Time
15:09
Well, there’s something you don’t see every day – at least not here. I live in a nice little village out in the sticks. It’s quiet. It’s peaceful. We all get along – most of the time. This afternoon, a team of tramps moved in (right outside the local off-licence, as it happens). They don’t have a dog on a piece of string, but they are bugging every local who walks by for spare change. I’m used to being confronted like this in London, but most of the locals don’t know how to react. It’s going to be very interesting watching how this pans out.

[UPDATE – The police came and moved them along quietly and firmly after about an hour. I’m sure it would have happened faster were it not the day after local council elections…]

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Date
20020503

Time
16:29
I’m just now opening the 2nd can from that six-pack of Victoria Bitter. Again, the sun is shining. I’m hoping that if I ration the beer, the weather will hold out.

PS – Thanks go to Adam, who pointed out that he gets to enjoy Victoria Bitter in the sun most days – living as he does erm, in Melbourne, Victoria. I’m not sure it quite classifies as living, though…

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Date
20020506

Time
08:19
I honestly can’t tell you how happy I am that the French chose the crook over the Nazi. Even if Chirac is an arrogant bastard and a notorious fish-nuker.

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Date
20020506

Time
08:29
Yeah, I know it’s a Bank Holiday – but some of us have work to do. Besides, everybody knows that it’s going to rain all day today. I’d much rather work today and take Wednesday off when the sun comes out.

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Date
20020506

Time
08:34
A homeless graffiti artist is facing felony charges for writing the name ‘Jesus’ (and/or drawing a little fishie) all over a US town. Maybe they can give him a burger with the works and dig up a case for copyright infringement as well.

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Date
20020506

Time
08:40
Poking around the web, I can see that – apart from a cynical release or two – not a lot is being done to mark the 1st anniversary of Douglas Adams’ death (this coming Saturday, May 11th). I shall have to see what I can do to correct this oversight…

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Date
20020506

Time
15:13
The suddenly-popular suicide bombing game now has a slightly-slower-to-load mirror. My advice is to save a copy to your hard drive before it disappears into the ether.

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Date
20020506

Time
15:17
Swear your head off and win big prizes!

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Date
20020506
The Dotcom Goldrush Dustpile
Time
15:19
Ever find yourself wondering where all the money went?

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Date
20020506

Time
16:46
OK, I wrapped up my work at about 3:00pm – which gave me ample time to do this:

What Are You Doing On May the 11th?

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Date
20020506

Time
18:17
It’s not turning out to be good week for the far right. The Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn has been shot dead, according to the latest media reports.

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Date
20020506

Time
18:18
I just don’t get this. Ann Winterton, the Conservative shadow Rural Affairs Minister, has been sacked for telling a racist joke in a rugby club. In a rugby club! It just doesn’t make sense.

Why in heavens name would they allow a woman into a rugby club?

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Date
20020507

Time
08:43
A chap named Steve emailed regarding yesterday’s comments about women being permitted in rugby clubs, pointing out that his club, and many others, had women’s teams that ‘kick ass’. Erm, it was a joke, Steve.

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Date
20020507

Time
08:47
You’ve no doubt read or heard about the man who stole more than $20,000 worth of rare comic books, including a rare copy of the first issue of The Amazing Spider Man. Well, I’m sorry, but this story has more heart. And explosives.

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Date
20020507

Time
09:09
I don’t know how often you see this kind of thing over in the US, but in Australia and the UK we get a lot of Merkin ads that have been dubbed with local voice artists. Inevitably, they end up looking like a cross between a commercial and a bad kung-fu movie. One of the latest examples of this has been the Tampax ad where the hapless and hungry guy (who turns up for a date and does his best to eat his girlfriend out of house and home while she hurriedly gets ready), mistakes a conveniently wrapped tampon for candy. A new one that’s just gone to air, for Nivea deodorant, has yet another girl running late for her date and features the same shoddy V/O dubbing – with the same female V/O artist. If she’s not careful, she’s going to be stereotyped as the voice of hastily applied feminine hygiene.

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Date
20020507

Time
09:10
As sure as God made little green apples, he needed to create some kind of demand for them. Right?

No? OK, how about some candy instead?

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Date
20020507

Time
10:21
Hulk SMASH! There’s been a few links around lately for the online trailers for HULK: The Movie which reminded me of a little URL I’ve had floating around for a few weeks now. Ah, me – to blog or not to blog, that is the question…

Oh, OK, what the hell – but remember, this link is soooooooooo not safe for work. Hell, I wouldn’t even look at it whilst eating lunch if I were you. Check out this extremely twisted tribute to She-Hulk.

[UPDATE – Oh, looky. I’ve popped over to test the URL and all of the links to these highly questionable images are failing today. And here was me fretting about it all. Ho-hum. Drop by and visit another time if you must, but take my advice and don’t put the URL in your ‘favorites’ folder. It’s the kind of thing that can easily be misconstrued…]

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Date
20020507

Time
10:32
Disgraced pop star Gary Glitter has been asked to leave Cambodia voluntarily.

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Date
20020507

Time
10:40
Now that’s a badge worth wearing.

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Date
20020507
Old Links
Time
15:08
She’s a chestnut all right, but you’d be surprised how many people without a high-bandwidth connection between their left and right lobes fail this classic test.

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Date
20020507

Time
15:11
Investment guru Warren Buffett assures us that a nuclear terrorist attack on American soil is “virtually a certainty”. This other site has some interesting things to say about Canadians. Yes, I do believe there’s a connection.

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Date
20020507

Time
21:00
A woman arranged the theft of her computer in a faked home invasion in a misguided attempt to stem her boyfriend’s thirst for Internet porn.

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Date
20020507

Time
21:57
Firda is expanding. I told her to cut back on the duckburgers.

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Date
20020508

Time
07:12
Ladies and gentlemen, I await final confirmation, but I do believe that we have located Mustard Man. Confidence is high. I repeat; confidence if high. Watch this space.

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Date
20020508

Time
07:15
This has to be a joke, but at least it’s a tasteless one. Somebody has started an online petition protesting against director Peter Jackon’s ‘decision’ to name the LOTR sequel “The Two Towers” – and therein lies the subtle clue that yes, it must be a joke. Either that or our schools have well and truly failed us.

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Date
20020508

Time
07:31
Nice try, loser.

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Date
20020508

Time
07:36
A lot of role-playing forums seem to be linking to bloggerheads these days. Perhaps someone can tell me why.

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Date
20020508

Time
07:43
If you’re wondering where the promised case study for The MASH Quiz is, please let me assure you that it is on the way. Soon. One day.

At the moment, I can’t write it up because vastly differing – and evolving – results are still coming in. The little bugger spread from weblogs to forums a few weeks ago, and it’s still being ‘discovered’ by a new communities. Being the No. 5 result in Yahoo for the search query ‘MASH’ might have something to do with this, of course…

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Date
20020508

Time
07:51
Hollywood wishes to secede from Los Angeles – and they want to take their sign with them.

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Date
20020508
Life Imitates Ant
Time
07:55
(Well, bees, actually.)

Remember that ad for X-box with the buzzing, beating, musical insects? Well…

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Date
20020508
Star Wars Watch
Time
08:02
For those of you who really, really can’t wait another 10 days, here’s some poor quality bootleg footage that will surely only spoil the greater pleasure of seeing it all for the first time on the big screen. I saw an advance pirate of ROTJ and it ruined the film for me. This being the case, it was easy for me to resist the temptation – even with the Yoda fight footage on offer. How about you?

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Date
20020508

Time
10:55
You may remember the story we linked to a few weeks ago, where a woman was charged with ‘assault on a peace officer’ for throwing her cat at a policeman. Strangely enough, we can go one better today. A suspected robber has been accused of throwing his 1½-year-old son at a police dog to stop the dog from chasing him.

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Date
20020508

Time
10:59
Sometimes required reading can be very entertaining. If you’ve ever been frustrated by the dimwitted automatons that always seems to get jobs in bookshops, then have a read of this. Investigative journalism at its best.

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Date
20020508

Time
11:33
If you’ve read my article concerning questionable opt-in tricks, then you’ll have a pretty good idea of how much this titbit tickles me:

Egg have been regularly and repeatedly sending emails to those who have clearly opted out of receiving junk from them, with a message along the lines of; “Look, we know you opted out, but are you really sure you don’t want any emails from us? I mean, we have some pretty good deals an’ all.”

Netimperative has the story.

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Date
20020508

Time
14:05
This is really weird. I’m in touch with not one, but two gentlemen who claim to be the man behind the mustard. I can’t publish my findings until this whole thing is cleared up, so please be patient. I know who is he is, I just don’t know which.

[UPDATE – A third Mustard Man has just entered the frey. This one can’t even spell his ‘own’ name, but it is getting very confusing…]

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Date
20020509
Paws
Time
07:27
An oldie, but a goodie. As the blurb goes: “When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer”. Pawsense is a special bit of software that can detect cat-typing and block it before it does any serious damage. Right, like this is is going to stop one of the most evil and ruthless creatures in the world from destroying your hard drive….

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Date
20020509
Laws
Time
07:35
Of the dumb variety.

In Australia, bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses of their patrons – and presumably not makes jokes along the lines of “Why the long face?”

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Date
20020509
Santa Claus
Time
07:43
Oh dear God, I’m blind! This is a concept so basic, so simple, and yet so evil – I simply can’t bring myself to describe it. I’ll just give you the URL and let you work it out for yourself:

www.santa-claus-porn.com

(not safe for work, obviously)

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Date
20020509
War!
Time
07:48
Huh! Good God, y’awl. What is it good for? Well, it can be amusing when Japanese soldiers refuse to believe it’s over, or when Donald Duck wins an Oscar for propaganda.

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Date
20020509
Pause
Time
07:59
Erm…

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Date
20020509
Doors
Time
08:04
Jehovah’s Witnesses want to knock on yours, even if it’s against the law.

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Date
20020509
Straws
Time
08:08
The attack of, the tower challenge of and the popping of.

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Date
20020509
Star Wars
Time
08:13
Discover the truth, as told by one brave man.

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Date
20020509
Claws
Time
08:16
Madonna has them. Erm, and Popbitch reports this morning that “her Guy Ritchie film caused test audiences to gnaw their own arms off with boredom… her London stage debut is beset with cancellation rumours … and now reports of her latest album suggest that she’s going backwards rather than forwards”. I can’t wait to hear a new version of ‘Like a Virgin’.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:01
Even better than yesterday’s Donald Duck propaganda link:

Dr Suess Went To War.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:02
Win your own weblog, as designed by Firda. If you’ve always wanted to run a blog, you won’t get a better start than this. Go to it.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:10
Give us this day our crispy crust, and deliver us from anchovies. A Seattle businessman is opening a pizzeria-church.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:14
So this is it. We’re all going to die.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:17
The B3ta Class of 2002. Only funny if you know which one I am. Erm, and contribute to B3ta.

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Date
20020510

Time
09:20
Behind the computer virus Klez.h lurks a nasty surprise. Update and scan now.

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Date
20020510
A letter to Private Eye
Time
10:21


Sir,

Has anyone noticed the increasing similarity between cakehole stuffer Jo Brand and Robert Smith of The Cure? Could they by any chance become related?

Yours, etc…

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Date
20020510

Time
10:26
The web is distracting. Well, duh. By the way, what are you doing here? Don’t you have work to do or something?

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Date
20020510

Time
10:27
Two Australians trekked from Siberia to the North Pole. Both suffered from frostbite and were threatened by a large polar bear. One nearly died when he fell through thin ice into near frozen water. What a pity they forgot to take the flag with them.

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Date
20020510

Time
10:34
Some thoughts on Australia by Douglas Adams. BTW, don’t forget that tomorrow is a very important day.

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Date
20020510
Viral Marketing
Time
10:42
The ‘subtlety’ of this campaign astounds me.

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Date
20020510
Star Wars Watch
Time
12:51
To get a PG rating in the UK, Fox had to cut one entire second from Star Wars II: Attack Of The Clones. It showed a head-butt. I’m hoping it’s not from the reportedly amazing Yoda fight scene.

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Date
20020513

Time
08:29
Mr Kipling does make exceedingly good cakes, but his flash games aren’t up to much.

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Date
20020513

Time
08:31
More attention for bloggers. We’re getting there. I dream of a day when I can say the word ‘weblog’ in a meeting and not have everyone go “Huh?!”

Revolution Magazine had a small piece on them a while back, but the next one is going to much, much more interesting.

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Date
20020513

Time
08:46
Forget backwards masking, digital facing is here.

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Date
20020513

Time
08:49
Hello, Newman. A US mail carrier has been fired and faces charges over dumping thousands of letters into a pond over the last several months.

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Date
20020513

Time
09:16
How to tell your child about oral sex. Not as easy as you think. For a start, all discussions regarding birds and bees are irrelevant.

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Date
20020513

Time
09:29
You know all those crap products you see on the shopping channel that seem waaaaaaaaay too good to be true? Here’s a guy who puts them to the test.

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Date
20020513

Time
09:33
The best beers in the world, ‘as ranked by real drinkers’ (they say). VB gets a disgraceful rating, but most of the reviews are by beer-snobs and people who don’t seem to have drunk the beer at all. One even described the taste as ‘bitter’, showing that he based his review entirely on the packaging.

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Date
20020513

Time
11:31
Sweets shaped like heroin syringes are causing concern among parents and MPs. Here’s the record of the related question put to the Prime Minister.

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Date
20020514

Time
08:22
I was going to email this article about corporate weblogs to Justin, Steve, and a whole bunch of other people – but I figured I’d just post it here with the inevitable: “told you so”.



If your company wants to approach the subject of weblogs, blah blah blah.

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Date
20020514

Time
08:28
Cats are evil, I tells ya. Eeeeeeeeeeevil!

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Date
20020514

Time
08:45
I’ve noticed when poking through the archives that a lot of the old news items disappear after a month or even a couple of weeks. Fair enough, server space costs money, after all, and not everybody is going to subscribe to an archive system just to see one article. They might throw some spare change into the tin, though. Too bad the major banks still haven’t got off their arses and initiated a decent micropayment system. You’d think we were still back in 1997 or something. Hmm, perhaps this can be the next project for Can Weblogs…?

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Date
20020514

Time
08:47
Come back, Ann Landers, all is forgiven!

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Date
20020514
Star Wars Watch
Time
09:02
Combining their love for Star Wars ‘and their love for each other’ (awwww), a couple were married last Saturday in a wedding based on a Star Wars theme. After they exited the church, the crowd yelled, “May the Force be with you!”

When you see the picture, you’ll have a fair idea of why the bride didn’t wear a metal bikini.

[Oh, and while we’re on the subject of Star Wars, here’s a rundown of the Skywalker family tree and 10 things we want to hear Samuel L. Jackson say in Star Wars…]

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Date
20020514

Time
11:46
Marc Needham is still looking for work. Maybe he ought to up the prize money.

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Date
20020514

Time
11:47
Under My Rock 3.0 has an interesting way of dealing with the frustration of spam. Rick not only mocks the sillier examples, but feeds the addresses from which they come to those loveable spambots in the process. (I haven’t got the heart to tell him that most of these email accounts will be dead by the time the bots get to them.)

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Date
20020514
Oldies but Goodies
Time
11:54
Have you ever wished that you could step into that classic picture of dogs playing poker and say ‘deal me in’? Wish no longer.

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Date
20020514
Weblogs (Again)
Time
13:15
Weblogs creep ever closer to the mainstream.

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Date
20020514
September 11th
Time
13:17
Well how about that, the FBI did have a clue. The tragedy seems to have been displayed on the US $20 note all along, too.

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Date
20020514

Time
13:26
5.2-magnitude earthquake hits San Francisco. Entire population shrugging it off registers as 3.5

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Date
20020515
Spamwatch
Time
08:54
The recent sharp upturn in spam is finally turning a few heads. Things like street spam are on the rise, too – and it gives me no joy to know that the spammers themselves are being ripped off. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Some harsher punishments for those who are the true source of the Spam wouldn’t go astray. Educate/help the users, go for the bloody dealers. They shouldn’t be able to get away with stuff like “OK, here’s your spam script and your spam tools, now don’t spam, m’kay?”.

This kind of a thing is a scam, pure and simple. They send Joe Bloggs over the top – who suffers most of the punishment, if any – while they gain what little benefit there is out of the exercise and legally withhold payment for the service rendered.

Excerpt from The Porn Report:

“Think of it as trying to keep a damp barbeque alight by throwing lit matches at it. A dozen or so matches aren’t going to help at all, but once you start throwing hundreds or thousands of little flames at it, you have real bonfire going. That doesn’t help you much, because you’re just one match. You light up and burn yourself out – and for what?”

Of course, given the UK government’s tolerance of the fax spam scam (providing a premium rate number as an ‘unsubscribe’ method, I mean really…) and their ongoing ignorance and inaction regarding all things networked, I don’t think we can even expect any help on the home front anytime soon.

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Date
20020515

Time
09:02
Why live your dreams when you can share your nightmares?

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Date
20020515

Time
09:08
Check out this guy who chooses to spend his time baiting some poor woman from Ghana. I mean, all she wants is a visa, and she is willing to have his ‘babby’.

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Date
20020515

Time
09:11
In a similar vein to All About My Vagina (sorry, maybe I could have put that better):

All About My Penis.

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Date
20020515

Time
14:44
New Zealand scientists trying to curb their country’s influence on global warming are starting with a crackdown on burping sheep.

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Date
20020515
Oldies but Goodies
Time
14:46
Tempted to play with radioactive materials? In your Mum’s shed perhaps?

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Date
20020416
Latest Viral Agent
Time
09:06
Upload photos of yourself wearing Fred Perry. Fred who?

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Date
20020416
Yet Another Lame Quiz
Time
09:10
Which “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” Character Are You? There are some who call me… Tim.

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Date
20020416

Time
09:11
Have an evil puppet version of you made so it can change places with you, leaving you to face a lifetime of sleeping in a suitcase and appearing on stage with a hand up your bottom.

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Date
20020416

Time
09:22
Play with the Homer Simpson Soundboard, or read about the stolen donut truck.

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Date
20020416

Time
12:42
‘My Dad and I Visit a Porn Set‘

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Date
20020416

Time
13:52
Laverne and Shirley return, Easter Island objects.

What, only Easter Island?

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Date
20020416

Time
16:06
Sorry bloggage has been light today.

I’ve spent a lot of time wondering if Weblogs can get their own BBC TV show.

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Date
20020416

Time
16:28
Run for the hills! Hatten has mutated!

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Date
20020417

Time
09:05
Can Weblogs Get Their Own BBC TV Show? is working out pretty well so far.

Thanks go to the following peeps for their kind bloggage:

http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/

http://www.ultimateinsult.net/

http://www.wannabegirl.org/

http://udn.netfirms.com/blogger.html

http://www.trialbyfire.tk/

http://www.funjunkie.co.uk/

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Date
20020417

Time
09:10
This is some awesome, awesome Lego.

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Date
20020417

Time
09:13
The cynic in me just doesn’t buy this. Back in Australia, McDonalds used to advertise their burgers as being ‘Made with 100% Australian Beef’. What they didn’t publicise was that their meat was supplied by the ‘100% Australian Beef Company’. Geddit? No, I just don’t trust them.

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Date
20020417

Time
09:18
Ship hits fan. Well, not quite – but you get the idea.

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Date
20020417
Flash Shows
Time
09:25
No, I can’t explain it either.

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Date
20020417

Time
09:29
Make your own big-screen TV.

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Date
20020417

Time
10:08
Turkey crashes through window of video store and craps all over the hunting videos. Strange but true.

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Date
20020417

Time
11:50
Blog evolves into actual newspaper.

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Date
20020418

Time
08:34
I’m very impressed that this very serious weblog took the time to wonder ‘Can Weblogs Get Their Own BBC TV Show?‘ – CNN will be next, you just watch.

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Date
20020418

Time
08:40
I find it hard to believe that this book actually exists, but it does. Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation is probably the silliest self-help book I’ve ever seen. No, wait – I take that back. Now I look closer, I see that Amazon has a special offer. You can buy this book and Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun for less than $20! Where’s my credit card?

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Date
20020418

Time
08:45
The SeeThru Weblog seems to be caught in a time loop that won’t let it escape lunchtime last Thursday.

I hate it when that happens.

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Date
20020418

Time
08:47
Woman who walks away with $58 million lottery cheque claims she’d be happy with just one million. Or anything ‘over $10’. Doesn’t it just make you want to stab her in the head with a pencil? Here, this will make you feel better.

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Date
20020418
Mustard Man
Time
08:53
(DAY 1,235,722)

Muchmusic finally got back to me regarding the identity of Mustard Man! Hoorah!!

Oh, wait – hang on.

I’d better read this email carefully before I get excited.

It says:

“Thanks for your interest, unfortunately we are not able to supply any personal information about contest entrants.”

What?!

Scum!

SCUM!!!!

I wait over a month for a return email and this is what they give me? Don’t I even deserve a hint?

You’ll pay for this, Muchmusic. I swear by all that is tangy and yellow that you will pay!!!!!!

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Date
20020418

Time
09:04
A new auction site for you to enjoy – ejected.co.uk is dedicated to traders of unwanted CDs and vinyl. I’m sorry, but I’ll die before I part with any of my music collection. I’m the kind of person that keeps everything…

After all, there are times in life when only Manilow can soothe the pain. There are also times when you’re so drunk that listening to The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner seems like a good idea.

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Date
20020418

Time
09:27
I don’t know what’s more disturbing – that they built a virtual stapler in the first place, or that they actually have the cheek to ask for funding to build another one.

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Date
20020418

Time
10:12
Africa is being ripped off over Internet access. Seems fair if you ask me.

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Date
20020418
Christianity Watch
Time
10:14
A list of alternative rap groups for young gangstas who don’t want to go to hell.

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Date
20020418

Time
11:05
Popbitch has been threatened with legal action by the compilers of the UK charts if they continue to disclose midweek chart positions in their weekly mailout. I wonder why…

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Date
20020418
Photoshopping
Time
13:31
Not a bad performance over at Fark today, but I got my ass whupped by Chewbot. Oh well.

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Date
20020418

Time
14:22
A great tool for mocking friends – no Photoshopping skillz required! Insert a friend’s face into a highly questionable picture here.

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Date
20020418

Time
14:23
Oh, great – so it’s gay pets on Channel 4 now, is it? Richard Littlejohn will be pleased to hear about this one. Why don’t you drop him a line?

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Date
20020418

Time
14:33
Join in and help MSN ruin these people’s lives.

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Date
20020418

Time
16:02
Drop by somethingawful.com today for an awesome linkfest/article entitled; ‘Thank you very much, Internet!!!’

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Date
20020418

Time
16:27
A disturbing theory for Star Wars fans.

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Date
20020419
Flash Games
Time
08:58
Let’s play dodgeball!

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Date
20020419

Time
09:02
Five youths is a small town in the US are accused of plotting to ambush the police chief and ‘drive-by’ his ass (that’s gangsta talk – see, I’m hip). Too bad everybody at the local burger joint already knew about the plan. They probably know where Hamburgler is hiding out, too.

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Date
20020419

Time
09:05
David Lee Roth buries the hatchet – and, no, it’s not in Sammy Hagar’s skull.

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Date
20020419

Time
09:09
Internet Explorer users who click their browser’s back button open the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.

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Date
20020419
Obscure Irish Joke Reference
Time
09:11
It’s OK, they’re going to make the trip at night.

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Date
20020419

Time
10:38
A great collection of those hilarious ‘Man Show Boy’ Videos. All classics.

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Date
20020419
Photoshopping
Time
10:44
Yet another good Photoshop offering over at Fark, this time with a Kingly Captain Kirk. Fark are putting some good stuff forward lately, but I just can’t seem to get past 2nd place. In fact, I’m beginning to develop a bit of a complex about it…

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Date
20020419

Time
14:33
Some kinky search results are an important aspect of our Can Weblogs Get Their Own BBC TV Show? campaign, and we just scored the number four result for anybody looking for the new BBC weblog. We ain’t there yet, but we’re on the way…

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Date
20020419

Time
15:11
Oh, great. Now bovine TB is on the loose.

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Date
20020419

Time
15:22
That furtive bear turns up everywhere!

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Date
20020419

Time
15:41
Planetary alignment heralds world peace. For a brief period. Maybe.

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Date
20020422

Time
09:14
OK, here we are – Monday morning. A whole new day in a whole new week, onwards an upwards etc. etc.

Let’s see what trouble I can get into today…

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Date
20020422
Christianity Watch
Time
09:16
22 reasons why porn is bad for you. I have nothing against porn, really – but I do hate seeing people get ripped off.

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Date
20020422
Flash Games
Time
09:22
Mini-golf, anyone?

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Date
20020422

Time
09:30
Aren’t neighbours great? Read about the water-narcs or have a gander at this chap who has issues with the new arrivals next door.

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Date
20020422

Time
10:09
Top stuff. The WhatTheFont font recognition system is going to get a hammering from me. Send this link to the web designer in your life and make his or her day.

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Date
20020422

Time
11:52
A cool interview with George Lucas, who has only just recently become aware of how much we all hated Ep. I

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Date
20020422

Time
11:54
Bloody hell, and I thought my kids were bad.

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Date
20020422
Voter Apathy Strikes Again
Time
11:55
The poor folks over in France have woken up to discover a right-wing government headed towards power. The general reaction has been; “Merde! I should have voted!”

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Date
20020422

Time
12:02
Play with the excellent Google Browser while you can. Google are sure to step on it before the end of the day – they don’t like it when folks re-hash their data.

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Date
20020422

Time
12:04
A literacy test for people with short attention spans.

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Date
20020422

Time
12:18
This website is quietly waiting for Ronald Reagan to die.

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Date
20020422

Time
12:24
Dangerous variant of the AYB virus detected.

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Date
20020422
Photoshopping
Time
13:00
Take an image of the unveiling of the new wax dummy of ‘The Rock’, replace the heads with those of another notorious eyebrow raiser – and it comes out looking like gay porn!

No, I can’t figure it out, either.

Just go and vote for it, that’s all I ask.

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Date
20020422

Time
13:12
Anna Kournikova to appear nude in Penthouse. Not voluntarily, mind you. The pics are candid ones taken by a freelance snapper with a long lens. *Ahem*.

A Penthouse source insisted they were high-quality shots and would be used in a “lovely, tasteful pictorial”.

*Ahem*. Again.

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Date
20020422

Time
14:16
Take a look at the size of this confiscated spud gun! I want one!

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Date
20020422

Time
14:49
If you own a .uk domain name, you might want to watch out for this new scam.

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Date
20020422

Time
16:46
The most exotic creature in the Star Wars universe is a duck.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:20
Dancing with cats? Sorry, not unless there’s a kickline involved. Everybody knows that cats are evil.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:25
Confused cattle go to the mall. They couldn’t find Starbucks, but I’m sure the police fitted them out with a hot cup of coffee and a danish down at the station.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:28
You knew it had to happen, and here they come – Sept. 11 Babies.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:38
Eminem is to appear dressed up like Osama bin Laden in his next video. The twat.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:43
Sports careers come and go, but I have a feeling that this photo is going to run and run.

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Date
20020423

Time
09:51
When walking through the woods on the way to work this morning, I found what I first assumed to be an abandoned Lego figure – but then I looked closer and saw that he was wearing a pilot’s uniform. I searched nearby for wreckage of a little Lego plane, but couldn’t find any. Perhaps he was pushed out by his co-pilot, or a jealous ex-lover. Either way, I’m surprised that the incident has gone unreported – and that Lego don’t make parachutes.

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Date
20020423

Time
10:45
An excellent book that actually teaches you How to Shit in the Woods.

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Date
20020423
Christianity Watch
Time
10:48
1. Creation Safaris take you to ‘unusual and beautiful places’ where you can learn ‘important evidence for creation and against evolution’. I just love their slogan:

“Creation Safaris: Escape to Reality!”

2. You have to admit that this kind of behaviour is pretty scary.

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Date
20020423

Time
11:42
More Lego linkage! Hoorah!

From groovymother.com comes this excellent link that lets you make a Lego version of yourself.

This is me. Well, this is me as I like to dress up on Saturday night when I go cruising for sailors.

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Date
20020423

Time
12:49
Trying to bend it like Beckham seems pretty dull, if you ask me. I’d rather try to find Sven’s sweet spot.

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Date
20020423

Time
13:29
A fine collection of rude snow creations.

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Date
20020423

Time
13:37
Linda Lovelace dies aged 53. Honour her memory in ASCII if you like, or ponder on the distinct lack of poster or movie stills for this spicy title. You might also wish to drop by the Linda Lovelace Virtual Museum, even if it’s just to read this interview with Eric Danville that addresses the whole doggie movie issue.

TRIVIA: Deep Throat was filmed in only 6 days in Florida, US – and is in fact the highest grossing film ever to be made in that state – which beats the hell out of the The Blair Witch Project, if you ask me.

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Date
20020423

Time
14:24
25 child pornographers/abusers arrested in 10 countries.

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Date
20020423

Time
14:30
You know that yodelling thing they have at the end of every Yahoo! commercial? The guy who performed it claimed that he was only paid a few hundred dollars for it on the understanding that it would be used once and once only. When he took issue with Yahoo! over compensation for its repeated use they refused to play ball, so he took them to court. In a move that surprised almost everybody, Yahoo! just bit the bullet and settled.

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Date
20020424
Are You Gay?
Time
09:15
Tee-hee. Pete sent this in: Are You Gay? He doubts its authenticity, and is right to do so. Yes, it’s an urban legend.

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Date
20020424

Time
09:17
I’ve read this book, it’s a good read. Enjoy this excerpt/quiz thing from Everything You Know Is Wrong.

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Date
20020424

Time
09:20
Well, it seems we have a bit of an enlightenment thread running through the blog this monring. This seems as good a time as any to plug two of the greatest sources of truth known to man, The Straight Dope and the Urban Legends Reference Pages over at Snopes.com

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Date
20020424

Time
09:39
A collection of student art? How can I resist?

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Date
20020424

Time
09:44
Yet another football game, this one involving a table-top version to plug Adidas toiletries. Be warned that this game requires the very latest version of Shockwave Flash to operate – not a smart move when you want something to go viral, guys.

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Date
20020424

Time
09:50
Something decidedly weird is happening in the woods near my house. For the second time in two days, I’ve found the corpse of a toy on the way to work – well, in this case, the partial remains of one.

I can’t help but wonder what exactly is going on. Perhaps one of these figurines is on the loose. Don’t laugh – they’ve already turned on their creator.

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Date
20020424

Time
10:12
When I was poking around for a good link to those serial killer figurines (see below), I found this interesting titbit of information:

On March 24, 1999, the brother of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims was stabbed to death in his Milwaukee apartment in ritualistic fashion. According to a medical examiner’s report, Ernest Smith’s body was “posed,” with figurines placed around it and in his hand, sheets from pornographic magazines stuffed into his shoes and pants, and cigarette ashes put in an ear. The kitchen knife used to kill him was left in his body.

Just think about how weird that would be. You’re at home, minding your own business when *thunk*, you get stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife. You hit the floor and slowly but surely expire, as your unknown assailant sets up this weird tableau – then leaves. Soon after, you shrug off this mortal coil and have one of those ‘float above your body’ experiences we see in all the movies. You look down to see yourself lying on the floor with your trousers full of porn, surrounded by half a dozen GI Joes and Barbie dolls – no doubt thinking all the while; “Now how the hell did that happen?”

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Date
20020424

Time
10:24
Boy, we’ve taken a sinister turn in the last half-hour. Here’s five things you probably missed in ‘The Shining’ and a few things to think about before you commit suicide. If that last link depresses you, I have the antidote right here.

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Date
20020424

Time
10:33
Finally, someone has the guts to tell the truth about advertising.

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Date
20020424

Time
12:32
Woman charged with ‘assault on a peace officer’ for throwing her cat at a policeman.

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Date
20020424

Time
16:08
Eminem is being a twat again. He just bought every copy of the new edition of The Face and had the lot shredded because the cover showed him wearing a pink tank top. The original photo had the rapper wearing a red top, but it was digitally altered so as not to clash with the colour scheme of the front cover. R-i-i-i-i-ght. FYI, Eminem has always been rather touchy about the issue of his gayness, but especially so since this happened.

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Date
20020425

Time
08:23
Yesterday, the .US namespace (the official top-level domain for the United States) kicked into action. Perhaps now they’ll stop the whole ‘we own .com’ nonsense.

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Date
20020425

Time
08:32
A digital photography contest? Sounds like fun – especially if I can Photoshop my way into their hearts. Please send evil suggestions to the usual address.

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Date
20020425

Time
09:01
What do you think. Can I get my religion onto this guy’s action list? Even as a low priority, maybe?

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Date
20020425

Time
09:05
My, hasn’t it been warm lately?

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Date
20020425
International Tax Avoidance Day
Time
09:06
International Tax Avoidance Day is coming up (11th May – remembering the death of visionary Douglas Adams), and I ask you all to spread the word and stand prepared. I also need to remind myself to update the page for the Fark Party (10th May) with some kind of alert/reminder – even if it’s just for me. Followers of my religion are expected to carry a towel with them at all times on the 11th, and it wouldn’t do for a representative of the UCIN to be caught out towel-less after midnight, now would it? Even if it’s just so that I can suck the corners for much-needed post-pint nutrients…

Hmm, now that I think of it, I should probably pack a few testifying pamphlets as well…

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Date
20020425

Time
09:23
Some interesting and amusing discussion over at Fark regarding Eminem and the pink t-shirt scandal. If you’ve never read a Fark thread before, try one now. This one’s a pretty typical mix.

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Date
20020425

Time
09:35
No, this isn’t me, but thanks for asking (you cheeky sods!).

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Date
20020425

Time
09:43
Elmo just gave evidence before a congressional committee to urge more spending on music research and musical instruments for school programs. No, really!

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Date
20020425

Time
12:24
In case you’re wondering, yes, I did find another corpse in the woods this morning – but this time the toy killer has made a big mistake. If you look closely, you can see a name tag attached to the victim’s clothing. Hopefully, the authorities can use this name to quickly identify the victim (one ‘Stuart Little’) and get one step closer to solving this mystery!

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Date
20020425

Time
17:00
A fine collection of Nazi and East German Propaganda for you to enjoy.

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Date
20020425

Time
17:01
Tumbleweeds are still blowing across the SeeThru weblog. I may take them off my nav-bar tomorrow – once I’ve finished building about a dozen or so other pages, that is.

Oh, didn’t I tell you? New sections and new excitement will be coming to this blog soon. I know, I know, you can’t wait – but you really shouldn’t get your hopes up. It’s not a like a full re-design or anything, just some new bits tacked onto the side. Kind of like mag wheels on an old Ford Cortina.

That reminds me of a story, actually…

My brother used to drive an old HQ Holden. It was gold. And red. And black. And green. (This all depended on which body panel you were viewing at any given time – you get the idea, I’m sure.)

One day he picked up a couple of mag wheels at an auction, and by a couple I mean two. He was quick to get them onto his car – both on the driver’s side, mind you. As you might expect, the car steered like a cow as a result, but damn it looked great when he parked it against a wall.

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Date
20020426

Time
09:10
Some researchers are concerned about something they call ‘link-rot’, whereby bits of the web are disappearing (at what I think is an increasing rate). Some sites are being replaced by pornography, as reported by Wired last year. A headache for educators, yes – but really something that should worry us all.

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Date
20020426

Time
09:15
Apparently AOL’s $50-Billion loss is due to an accounting anomaly. Me, I think it has more to do with the cost of all those bloody CDs they send out.

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Date
20020426

Time
09:19
Another gem courtesy of ultimateinsult.net, The LEGO Chainsaw Massacre.

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Date
20020426
Christianity Watch
Time
09:21
How to Perform an Emergency Baptism

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Date
20020426

Time
09:23
The site autistics.org has all sorts of information on it, including tips on asking a girl out for a date. No, I’m not being cruel. If you take a close look at it, you’ll probably agree that it’s advice all single men can benefit from – and if you do want to take a girl to the movies, don’t forget the most important step of all:

“Step 2: Find a girl who you would like to go see a movie with.”

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Date
20020426

Time
09:30
A quick memo for everybody. Please sign it and pass it on.

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Date
20020426

Time
09:33
No, no toy corpses in the woods this morning – but I did find (pause for dramatic effect) the murder weapon!

The police will have to take me seriously, now…

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Date
20020426

Time
11:20
Shame on me for not spotting this earlier! The four men who broke into a holiday home where Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were staying have escaped a prison sentence by signing a non-disclosure agreement. This basically means that if they talk about what they stole (or saw in the house), they’ll be locked up. Included in the items stolen were some videotapes with “personal footage”. How very interesting…

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Date
20020426
Flash Games
Time
13:26
Watch out – this is a simple enough game but, like Tetris, really sucks you in after a while.

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Date
20020426

Time
15:15
Gosh, Serena, thanks for that.

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Date
20020426

Time
15:34
More on streaking for you to enjoy.

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Date
20020426

Time
15:48
Right, I’m off to brave the woods on the way home. If I find another corpse or get attacked by a lone psychopathic toy, I’ll let you know all about it on Monday. Have a good weekend, everybody – oh, and here’s something to keep you busy for the rest of the afternoon – What’s Better?

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Date
20020429

Time
08:57
I didn’t walk through the woods this morning, I caught the bus instead. On the bus, I was safe from the murderous toy that lurks in the woods, but I could swear that the ticket machine was looking at me funny…

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Date
20020429

Time
09:00
I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but I love boot sales. This weekend, I came across a couple at one boot sale who were tidying up the storage rooms in their little radio station. They had boxes and boxes of CDs on offer – 10 for £1 – and I bought 50 of the suckers! Nearly all of them were promo CDs from 89-93, which is doubly cool because it was full of stuff that I’d bought as a single (or played on music video) as a DJ, but was forced to leave behind when I left Australia. Interesting things, promo CDs. For one thing, they don’t seem to have a Track No.1 (I wonder why). They also give a very good indication of the large volume of quality material that gets released but never makes the charts.

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Date
20020429

Time
09:09
George Lucas will be judging a contest for fan-made films based on Star Wars. What a shame that the best of these don’t even qualify for entry.

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Date
20020429

Time
09:12
Seethru is now officially closed, as the message goes. What a damn shame.

They produced some of the best viral stuff in the last 12 months.

For this, they stay on the navbar for one more day as a mark of respect.

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Date
20020429

Time
13:21
Worth1000.com has taken a leaf out of b3ta’s book by launching a survival appeal.

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Date
20020429

Time
13:51
A great collection of cat attacks.

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Date
20020429
Mustard Man Returns!
Time
17:08
Can Weblogs Identify Mustard Man?

Frankly, I have no idea – but I figure it’s worth a try.

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Date
20020430
New Improved Bloggerheads (Coming Soon)
Time
09:16
OK, a great deal of the code is done and most all of the content is written and proof-read. Alls I have to do now is tidy up and link the front end. Should only take the rest of the day.

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Date
20020430

Time
09:19
Over or under? Crumple or fold? Yes, we all know that toilet paper can be daunting, but those of us who’ve experienced the infinite technicalities of a Japanese bathroom simply count our blessings and just get on with it.

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Date
20020430

Time
09:22
I was reading an old Freak Brothers book last night, and at the tail end (no pun intended) Fat Freddy was in a bar asserting that dogs were fascist. His reasoning?

“Well, have you ever seen a police cat?!”

Thankfully, not all dogs are blindly fighting to aid the wealthy elite in their domination of the poor. Some are actually pretty smart.

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Date
20020430

Time
09:34
Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers. All right! The web rules!

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Date
20020430
Latest Viral Agent
Time
09:41
Win free* flights for life with Virgin Atlantic.

(*I love it when they include those little stars…)

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Date
20020430
Mustard Man II
Time
09:45
(DAY TWO)

Can Weblogs Identify Mustard Man? is already receiving a lot of support. I’ll return the link love with a list later today. Now, onto that code…

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Date
20020430

Time
13:06
Well, here it is. As you can see, it doesn’t *look* that different, but there’s lots of new stuff around the place. Most of it is a full de-lurk revealing and explaining what I do for a living – but if it’s mild amusement you’re after, you could do worse than a journey through my plain-Jane Photoshopping collection.

You may also note a change to the navbar on your left. Yep, Seethru and a few others have gone (habits change, what can I say?) and the lovely Firda has been added. She’s a bit ill today, the poor dear, so please do drop by and say hello.

Have fun poking around the new stuff – and please do let me know if you find any deliberate mistaks.

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Date
20020430

Time
13:23
I love it when a deserving publication enjoys a new lease of life on the web. Check out Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself.

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Date
20020430

Time
13:41
Cool, a new search engine to play with – Flipper.com

This one touts itself as a deep indexer, so I’m off to see just how deep it can go. It seems a pity, though, that a search engine called ‘flipper’ doesn’t adopt more of an Ask Jeeves approach. Something like:

“Flipper, how tall is the Eiffel Tower?”

“ak-ak-ak, click-click-whistle, ak-ak-ak”

I know, I know. I’ll just get my coat, shall I?

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Date
20020430

Time
13:49
Well, the web is full of pleasant surprises today. Take a look at the future of democracy. The good thing about being able to vote online is that you don’t get collared by the party pigdogs as you enter the polling station – unless you count pop-up Conservatives. Do you think they’ll allow that?

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Date
20020430

Time
14:14
Yet another dope has been caught having sex with an animal. This time a pony. All ladder jokes aside, I recently warned a colleague of mine (hello, Martin) that there’d be an notable increase in offences like this. I knew this because, out of the referral stats over the last two years at Celebrity Bestiality, I’d noticed a general month-by-month increase in the number of people in the UK who used this kind of search query. I called the Home Office a few months ago to try and get some statistics, but they thought I was taking the piss.

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Date
20020430

Time
15:48
The BBC has introduced a new search engine, and not everybody is happy about it. The BBC claims theirs will be more useful, as things such as paid placement are polluting results in most search engines (funny, I was just thinking that.

But how big is the online presence of the BBC going to get? It’s already spent the last two years taking food out of the mouths of UK developers, and done very little for the community as a result. As with TV, the focus for the BBC online should be innovation, not recycling.

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Date
20020430

Time
16:34
A great link from the deep bloggage of www.groovymother.com – find your perfect date courtesy of The Florida Department of Corrections Offender Network. For example, I searched for a 6 foot blonde woman and got this selection of lovely ladies. These ones are from the fugitive list, so therefore are available for immediate dating. Pretty sweet, huh?

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Date
20020430

Time
16:49
ITV Digital is to stop broadcasting all its pay TV services from midnight tonight and lay off a thousand or so workers in the process. Happily, Monkeh has already found new work.

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Date
20020430

Time
17:00
Seems that I’m not the only one cleaning house – davelog.com has just had a complete refit and now looks, erm, different.

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Date
20020401

Time
16:25
hehehe – I almost forgot what day it was…



(In case you missed it, the Open Directory Project dressed itself up as the Microsoft Directory Project, complete with a familiar paperclip chappie that popped up to ‘help’ with your query – tee-hee.)

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Date
20020402

Time
08:50
Enjoy some really crap cartoons from the 80’s and a lot of other funky stuff at weaintcool.com (and if all this does is whet your appetite, you’ll find a great deal more at yesterdayland.com).

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Date
20020402
Attention: Students and the Unemployed
Time
08:55
Get down to the mega-funky Bargain Hunt Boogie at diffusiononline.net

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Date
20020402

Time
08:59
Meet the dickheads who invented Spam. Surprise, surprise, they’re lowlife laywers.

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Date
20020402

Time
09:18
I’m pretty sure it will disappear sometime today or tomorrow, so drop by and get a copy of the Queen Mamagotchi game from the Viz downloads page while you can.

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Date
20020402
Weekend Spam Warriors
Time
09:21
I’ve noticed that, ever since November, there’s been a notable increase in Spam over the weekend. At lot of these seem to be one-off attempts to cash in on one affiliate deal or another (in other words, a complete waste of time by some loser who doesn’t know how these things work). I’m willing to bet that this is a symptom of the recession that isn’t really happening, as more and more people get desperate enough to try this at least once.

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Date
20020402
Latest Viral Agent
Time
09:27
What a fucking joke! You may remember back in March I commented on the Pot Noodle people’s complete failure to translate their w-w-w-wacky ‘Not Poodle’ campaign to the web in any way, shape or form. Now some genius seems to think that everybody is going to flock to www.notpoodlequiz.co.uk to download an .exe file quiz. No, I didn’t link to the URL – and with good reason. The only thing hosted there is the aforementioned .exe file. I say again: what a fucking joke.

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Date
20020402
Yet Another Lame Quiz
Time
10:18
OK, but I likes this one:

Which Lego character are you?

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Date
20020402

Time
11:43
Need a new mouse? Check this one out.

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Date
20020402

Time
12:35
AOL have discovered blogs! Run for the hills!

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Date
20020402

Time
12:36
An interesting article on fair use.

Hell, it’s better than mine.

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Date
20020402

Time
12:39
A good photshopping thread at fark today, this time at the expense of Craig Barrett, Intel CEO and President.

A simple yet fun challenge, this one.

Enjoy. Vote. Wipe hands on pants.

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Date
20020402

Time
12:58
Quite a handfull, this list:

Celebrity Bra Sizes.

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Date
20020402

Time
14:25
Two escaped asylum seekers on the run from the authorities in Australia mistakenly hitched a ride from an unmarked police bus. At least they weren’t attacked by a naked carjacker (or thrown over the side).

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Date
20020403

Time
09:11
A nice way to say: ‘take this and stick it where the sun don’t shine‘.

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Date
20020403

Time
09:12
Secrets behind Google and how it works.

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Date
20020403

Time
09:15
Play a fun shell game with President Bush

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Date
20020403

Time
09:16
This Ali G competition lets you rap along to the new single ‘Me Julie’ (cool!). The prize is a shirt (amazing!). Calls to the Premium Rate telephone line cost £1.00 per minute (take this and stick it where the sun don’t shine!).

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Date
20020403

Time
09:20
Sign the World Cup Flag for England and become as unique as a million other people.

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Date
20020403

Time
10:34
A year later, and that former Hooters waitress still hasn’t got her promised ‘Toyota‘.

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Date
20020403

Time
12:07
Simon Fuller speaks.

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Date
20020403

Time
13:07
Here’s one I missed on Jesus Week: the Christian Wrestling Federation.

Praise the Lord! Pass the body oil!

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Date
20020403
Blimey! That Didn’t Take Long!
Time
13:17
Overheard in Usenet:

The Queen Mum arrives at the Royal Pearly Gates and sees Diana wearing a halo.

“Hello Diana” says the QM, “When does one get a halo like yours?”.

“Piss off granny”, says Diana, “It’s a f***g steering-wheel”.

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Date
20020403

Time
14:17
A fine collection of corporate anthems for you to enjoy.

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Date
20020403
Photoshopping
Time
14:50
It’s the invasion of the Bloody Big Original today over at Fark, but what the hell – at least I’m winning…

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Date
20020403

Time
15:56
A driver who admitted having the highest alcohol reading in Scottish legal history was released on bail to celebrate his birthday.

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Date
20020403
Recycling
Time
16:16
The soon-to-be-launched worldcupatwork.co.uk plans to offer an informational interface for office workers who wish to keep up to date with the World Cup. Their USP? A panic button:

“With a simple click of a button you can hide away the world cup site you are viewing from prying eyes, and appear to be working on some proper work in one of the variety of different interfaces available including Word, Excel, and Photoshop.”

Yawn….

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Date
20020403

Time
16:33
Seriously, what kind of sicko would want one of these in the corner of their living room?

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Date
20020404

Time
09:06
Yep, there it is in black and white. You can build anything with Flash. Of course, before attempting anything this serious, you might also need these tips on how to be a web designer.

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Date
20020404

Time
09:21
My good friend from The Ultimate Insult is about to become a daddy!

Be afraid…

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Date
20020404
Giving More Than 100%
Time
09:44
I just got one of those silly-type emails from my sister, but this one bears repeating, so here goes:

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

Here’s a little math that might prove helpful.

What makes 100%?

If, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Then,

H A R D W O R K is

8 1 18 4 23 15 18 11= 98%

and

K N O W L E D G E is

11 14 15 23 12 5 4 7 5 = 96%

But,

A T T I T U D E is

1 20 20 9 20 21 4 5 = 100%

and,

B U L L S H I T is

2 21 12 12 19 8 9 20 = 103%

So it stands to reason that hard work and knowledge will get you close, attitude will get you there, but bullshit will put you over the top!

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Date
20020404

Time
11:14
Hoorah! They cured Bubble Boy.

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Date
20020404

Time
11:49
Firda has a new look. All that money must be going to her head.

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Date
20020404

Time
12:01
Purchase a Pet Penny, erm, for a dollar. Yes, I do believe they’re serious…

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Date
20020404

Time
12:07
Damn it, this was the most satisfying experience of of my day. See Toast Fiction and the classic web site that inspired it. Call me a pyromaniac if you like, but nothing, and I mean nothing beats watching stuff burn (except maybe nuking cockroaches in the microwave).

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Date
20020404
Blowing Stuff Up
Time
14:34
Toast Fiction has me going now. So far I’ve dug up some real classics, including a chap who wins awards and recognition by lighting grills with 3 gallons of liquid oxygen, an Aussie bloke I’d damn near forgotten about who made a supremely awesome Sparkler Bomb (you have to see that one), some tin fun, and the less awesome but still quite funny Twinkie Project.

My, what fun. It’s almost enough to make me forget about the lifetime scar I got from a burning PET bottle at age 14. Or the time a segment of copper bomb travelling at the velocity of a bullet missed my head by about an inch. Or the time…

OK, I’m sure you get the idea. Watch and learn, but DO NOT TRY AT HOME. Take it from someone who knows, this is dangerous stuff and the Gods are not always kind to the dumb, the stupid, and the drunk.

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Date
20020404
Photoshopping
Time
15:02
An 18-year-old man (man?) was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for superimposing a picture of his ex-girlfriend over the body of a nude woman and then posting the picture on the Internet.

The site itself is totalled, but there’s a cache of it in Google if you can be bothered to look for it. (He is a nutter, BTW – find the site and you’ll see what I mean…)

Smart chap that he is, he’s worn a hood while facing the press photographers, presumably to foil attempts to Photoshop his head onto the body of a naked chick.

Too bad they got a clear shot of him inside the court…

Cannot… resist.

Must… alter image!

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Date
20020404

Time
16:04
Seth Godin has a blog? I’m there.

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Date
20020405

Time
09:27
Following up on yesterday’s special about blowing stuff up etc., here are some consequences for you to ponder. Take my word for it, violent entertainment is dangerous. I won’t even subject you to the horrors of the Three Stooges ward.

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Date
20020405

Time
09:33
Liz Hurley had a boy. She didn’t give it a stupid name, either. OK, preparing for the DNA test in 5, 4, 3, 2….

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Date
20020405
I Miss Douglas Adams
Time
09:42
It was in 1989 that I first read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. I was quite taken by the character’s navigational/investigative technique, described as follows:

“My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it’s going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often end up somewhere that I needed to be.”

(Douglas Adams, ‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’)

I was about halfway through the book on the day when I was driving to a very unfamiliar part of town to collect a car part for my Holden Gemini (see a picture of one) from a wrecker’s yard. I was on the expressway towards this part of town when I realised that I didn’t have my UBD (street directory) with me.

‘Bugger’, I thought, as I approached the exit with no idea where to go after that…. until I realised that the truck directly in front of me had, amongst other things, a dented Holden Gemini door propped up in the back.

So I followed it.

It led me right to the wrecker’s district, of course – but the cool thing was that it pulled up right in front of the same wrecker’s yard I had called earlier that day. My part wasn’t exactly waiting for me – first it had to be unloaded from the truck I had just followed.

The man deserves sainthood for this small miracle alone. Grab a pencil and check if the gravity in your room still works. Peace of mind is a rare thing these days.

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Date
20020405

Time
11:30
Meet the rabbit who thinks your cursor is a carrot.

At least he doesn’t dress up like a woman and make me feel all funny inside.

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Date
20020405

Time
11:33
An excellent piece on street spam.

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Date
20020405

Time
13:04
Watch Michael Jackson change before your very eyes. Be amazed! Be astounded! Be very, very afraid.

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Date
20020405
Photoshopping
Time
15:46


I’ve been enjoying a good run over at Fark lately, but I know it won’t last.

<pun>

There’s always someone who’s quicker on the draw.

</pun>

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Date
20020405

Time
15:53
If you’re considering selling porn online, here’s something to chew on.

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Date
20020405

Time
17:59
Good news everybody! Enron was just the beginning!

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Date
20020408

Time
08:56
Have a safe trip!

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Date
20020408

Time
08:58
See some warning signs from around the world and the best of the fake ones from Fark.

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Date
20020408

Time
09:01
Build a pub in your back yard. Or a genuine, bonafide, electrified, six-car monorail.

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Date
20020408

Time
10:11
Michael Barrymore aims for an acting career in the States. He’s in with a chance if they need a good cameo for a remake of Sunset Boulevard.

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Date
20020408

Time
10:20
Penthouse is going broke. Could the advent of online porn be a factor? Perhaps. There’s no staples, for starters…

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Date
20020408
Photoshopping
Time
11:01
Get that authentic lightsaber effect for still or moving images.

(via the new but cool trialbyfire.tk blog)

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Date
20020408

Time
11:15
One man, 13,500 McDonalds outlets. Just keeping it down sounds like a challenge to me.

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Date
20020408

Time
11:42

I just couldn’t stop smiling when I watched this knockout music video of ‘Hooked On A Feeling’ with David Hasselhoff (click here if you have a slow connection).

It has ‘made for German television’ written all over it. Once you get to first big special effect or the tribal jumping bit, you’ll see what I mean.

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Date
20020408

Time
12:02
Can starring in a crap sitcom actually cause Parkinson’s disease? We can only hope.

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Date
20020408

Time
14:02
I’m only blogging this Which Monkee Are You? quiz because I turned out to be the coolest musician of all time – Michael Nesmith.

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Date
20020408
Queen Mum Latest
Time
14:30
This picture of a special gift left by a mourner is doing the rounds. Yes, it’s obvious – but still funny.

Right?

Right?

(I’ll just get me coat, then…)

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Date
20020408

Time
14:56
Overture are suing Google for nicking their ‘paid listings’ advertising model. What, just Google?

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Date
20020408

Time
15:26
Hoorah! We have something else to wait for now that the Charlotte Church Countdown is over.

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Date
20020409
Overlord (of the Evil variety)
Time
09:42
The secret to becoming an Evil Overlord and not letting secret agents, angry loners or meddling kids fuck it up for you.

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Date
20020409
Old Computer Programs
Time
09:44
Sometimes new isn’t always improved – that’s why oldversion.com archives a collection of the original (and some obviously think best) versions of popular computer programs.

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Date
20020409
Oligarchical Collectivism
Time
09:47
You can read all about it here (there’s also some other stuff involving a guy called Winston and fittingly enough, a character named O’Brien). The whole thing was written by a chap named Orwell.

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Date
20020409
The Occult
Time
09:48
The Occultopedia has more information than you can shake a handful of chicken guts at.

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Date
20020409
Open Directory Project
Time
09:50
The number (and quality) of editors has slipped lately. Do yourself and the web community a favour by joining up today.

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Date
20020409
Sem-O-phore
Time
09:55
This is the semaphore signal for the letter ‘O’. Just thought you might like to know. There’s a bunch of other letters we really don’t care about here.

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Date
20020409
Organs
Time
10:01
Sure, you could become an organ donor, but not everybody thinks it’s a good idea. Hell, you can even get an Organ Keeper Card if you want one. Still, if you don’t mind being carved up like so much meat, you might choose to leave your body to science – but wouldn’t it be far, far cooler to leave your body to art? That way, your friends and family could come and see you (and all of your lovely internal organs) in the local art gallery whenever they pleased.

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Date
20020409
Oh, the Humanity!
Time
10:04
Enjoy the worst movies on earth at ohthehumanity.com

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Date
20020409
O!
Time
10:05
See the letter ‘O’ (and a bunch of other far less interesting letters) as displayed by Mrs. Stubb’s Kindergarten class for their truly awesome Millennium Alphabet Project.

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Date
20020409
Ouch!
Time
10:08
Meet Ouchy The Clown, ‘your premier provider of adult clown services’. And before you ask – no, he doesn’t do children’s parties.

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Date
20020409
Orgasms
Time
10:17
The difference between the male and female variety.

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Date
20020409
Oscar The Grouch
Time
10:19
Oscar is on display at the Smithsonian Institute, which explains why he only pops up occasionally on Sesame Street.

(Hey, I had to slip a Sesame Street reference in somewhere!)

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Date
20020409

Time
15:37
Here I am in Oxford. I just saw a truck fall over on its side. Right in front of me. It doesn’t start with the letter ‘O’, but it did scare the fuck out of me, so I hope you don’t mind if I include it.

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Date
20020410

Time
09:30
A few people have emailed me with questions about yesterday’s overturned truck incident. Here are the answers:

Is the driver OK?

As they say in the stunt biz…Yes, he’s OK folks!

Are you OK?

I’m fine, thanks for asking – but I did have a shaky start to my meeting.

It didn’t start with ‘O’!

Well, yes, it did. Aside from the obvious use of the word ‘overturned’, what I neglected to mention was what I was saying as I desperately steered around the bloody thing:

“Oshitofuckochristoshitofuckomygodoshit!”

What the hell happened?

I was a few hundred yards from the office I was headed to when the articulated lorry on the roundabout ahead of me turned into an exit road and tipped over. He wasn’t going too fast, so maybe an uneven load had something to do with it. I was first ‘on the scene’ as they say (and damn near twisted an ankle getting there). The cabin had fallen over with the rest of the vehicle, passenger side down. I looked up to the driver’s seat, but he wasn’t there. “A-ha”, thinks I, “no seatbelt”. I looked down, but all I could see was debris. Then I saw a foot twitch. The truck wasn’t going too fast when it tipped over, maybe 5 or 6 miles per hour – so basically, the guy had suffered an 8-foot fall to the other side of the cab and the impact caused every glove compartment, map holder and cup holder to empty its content over him.

His foot was against the cracked windscreen, so (and by now there were five of us there, one calling ‘999’) we decided not to break the glass to gain entry. Someone climbed on top of the cab and got in through the driver’s side door. By the time the driver came to, shaken but OK, there was someone right next to him and over a dozen people staring at him through the glass like some kind of exotic fish. And there was he literally swimming in his possessions.

I won’t close with a lecture about road safety, but I will say this:

He’s damn lucky that he stowed his pornography carefully.

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Date
20020410

Time
09:41
Check out Star Wars: Designer Edition. He has a point. If there were a Star Wars movie made in the early 90’s, I’m firmly convinced that every piece of technology would have been beige. If this site does inspire you, then maybe you’d like to start out small by building your own lightsaber. Just be careful, that’s all I ask!

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Date
20020410

Time
09:51
Hmm, why does company called ‘Beige Design‘ have a blue website?

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Date
20020410

Time
09:55
Just when I thought no venture could be bigger or more impressive than the Internet Archive, something came along this morning that Blew. My. Mind. The new site nurseryphotos.com allows you to search a database of over 172 million photos from hospitals all over the western world, some entries dating back as far as 1904.

I didn’t believe it myself, but took the time to do a quick search anyway and yes, my picture was there. Incredible, simply incredible.

You have to try it for yourself.

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Date
20020410

Time
10:25
Some things in life are bad,

They can really make you mad.

Other things just make you swear and curse.

When you’re chewing on life’s gristle,

Don’t grumble, give a whistle!

And this’ll,

Help things turn out for the best…

And…

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Date
20020410
Office Tip #364
Time
12:11
Don’t leave your chewing gum out on the desk, or everybody will ask for a piece.

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Date
20020410

Time
12:21
A cool collection of songs from The Simpsons. I own a couple of Simpsons CDs, so I already know most of these by heart. My personal favourite is I’m Checkin’ In from The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson. Not an episode you’re likely to see for a while, given that most of the action takes place in the World Trade Centre. Khlav Kalesh, anyone?

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Date
20020410

Time
12:36
You may remember the images of Christ looking over your shoulder from Jesus Week. Here are some slightly altered versions from sortakinda.com that will amuse you.

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Date
20020410

Time
12:50
Somebody just plugged a flash version of the parody of Cat’s In The Cradle over at GoofyFun.com

The song is based mostly on an enduring urban legend and is really quite good – but damn it, I’ve seen this before. Here’s one version and here’s the version I see most often. Until the bloke who actually wrote and perfomed the song stands up to be counted, these (mostly crappy) multiple rip-offs are going to continue. His name, BTW, is Aaron Wilburn – and I suspect that the reason he isn’t making a lot of noise about it is that he’s a nice Christian chap who prefers to turn the other cheek.

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Date
20020410
Photoshopping
Time
13:19
Art or Arse? makes a welcome return for 2002!

My entry is ready, but the email address they give on the site bounces! Scum!

Oh well, I suppose I must suffer for my art and wait until tomorrow to send this in:

Mustard Man

by Manic

Mustard Man is an installation piece formed of fibreglass-reinforced plaster, polyester resin, natural materials and American mustard. The piece is meant to emotively and realistically convey the daily trials of the modern-day proletarian to the upper-class literati.

Click here to see a large version.

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Date
20020411
Flash Games
Time
08:43
A fun game for your average gun-crazed homophobe – go on, get them before they get you!

(Yet another quality link from the notorious breeder @ ultimateinsult.net)

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Date
20020411

Time
08:46
Read about the Pizza Hut manager who robbed the bank next door and still got back to work in time to make the garlic bread for the lunchtime rush.

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Date
20020411

Time
08:50
The Brazilians have no sense of humour. Or irony. I heard about this on the radio the other day. Kind of childish and reactionary IMO, especially considering how well countries like Australia and Japan took Exactly. The. Same. Treatment. Also stupid in that The Simpsons makes fun of America Every. Single. Episode.

Anyways, here’s a discussion on the topic that popped up in a search this morning.

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Date
20020411

Time
09:01
Warning: This article is only amusing if you’re a weblogger. Just for the record, I was the first person to see the value in the domain name ‘warblog.com’. Too bad some cybersquatter now has it sitting on his dustpile.

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Date
20020411
Office Tip #365
Time
09:38
Beware! Stationery isn’t always stationary!

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Date
20020411

Time
09:40
Hooray! A deal is being hammered out for ‘Goldmember’. The way is clear for a cool title. Now only the movie itself will suck.

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Date
20020411
Flash Games
Time
09:52
Kill The Butterfly! Surprisingly difficult, but in the end very satisfying.

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Date
20020411
Flash Music Videos
Time
10:00
(of the crap variety)

Little Blue Dune Buggy.

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Date
20020411
Flash Games
Time
10:25
Oh boy, this is a cracker – and no, I didn’t go looking for it (see the other shag-and-shoot-em-up earlier in today’s blog). I just tripped over it while trying to find the source of traffic to bloggerheads from some German DJ site (if you’re here from that site, please do let me know where the link is).

Picture the scene: You’re Adam. You run around naked in the Garden of Eden trying to shag Eve (as you do), but for some reason you also have to deal with a chicken and a gorilla. Weird. Compelling. Challenging.

Play The Game!

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Date
20020411

Time
10:51
An even better article about the whole Brazil/Simpsons thing.

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Date
20020411
Corporate Killing
Time
10:55
If you didn’t see Mark Thomas on TV last night, then you really should read this. The ‘New’ Labour government (read: ‘Conservative Lite’) promised to reform the law on Involuntary Manslaughter in October 1997 – and to introduce a new offence of Corporate Killing, to make companies take health and safety issues more seriously. Surprise, surprise – two elections later and this promise still hasn’t been fulfilled.

OK, enough politics – back to the shagging!

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Date
20020411

Time
11:11
Britney looks set to appear in the next advert for ‘Chicken Tonight’.

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Date
20020411

Time
11:32
You’ll pardon me for not noticing this before (I see large notes so rarely these days), but Mrs Doubtfire appears on the Australian $50 note.

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Date
20020411

Time
11:47
Death to all gnomes! Hey, there’s even a flash game on this theme…

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Date
20020411

Time
12:06
Do not click here if you are in any way squeamish or currently eating your lunch.

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Date
20020411

Time
12:21
I was asked a day or so ago who I thought was doing it right on the web. My answer was ‘nobody’. I take it back. Somebody has, for the first time, actually succeeded. And hey, I can even take a little bit of the credit!

Tesco.com turns a profit.

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Date
20020411
Search Engine Optimisation
Time
13:07
My little Lego site just went live in Google’s database and is now enjoying some healthy traffic. I won’t bore you with the Lego-related results (which are relatively easy to achieve), but just look at these generic search results for some of the vehicles featured on the site. Given the site’s complete lack of link popularity (early days) and the sheer number of competing sites that focus on Star Wars and Star Trek, I’m sure you’ll agree that these are some pretty hefty results indeed. Too bad the site doesn’t make any money. Yet…

‘Imperial Shuttle‘ – Rank: 3

‘Imperial Star Destroyer‘ – Rank: 6

‘TIE Interceptor‘ – Rank: 7

‘Klingon Bird Of Prey‘ – Rank: 3

(Heh – I’m a web geek and a Lego geek. How sad does that make me?)

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Date
20020411

Time
13:41
Are you prone to Road Rage?

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Date
20020411

Time
14:14
The black hole of music. And no, I’m not talking about Pop Idol.

BTW, have you seen the ad for this travesty yet? My Dog, will they stop at nothing?

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Date
20020412

Time
09:12
Well, how about that – there’s an animal version of the crash test dummy.

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Date
20020412

Time
09:26
A collection of blank cassette tapes and (thankfully) empty air sickness bags. I know the second one is an old link, but they kind of go together, don’t you think?

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Date
20020412

Time
09:39
The U.S. is the prophesied Fourth Empire! We’re all going to die!

Best leave a note for the loved ones, then. Oh, and one for the milkman.

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Date
20020412

Time
09:55
Hey, I like Weird Al too – but there is a line, and this guy crossed it years ago.

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Date
20020412

Time
09:58
A woman was convicted Monday of helping her husband impregnate her teen-age daughter with a syringe. You’ll never guess which country this happened in…

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Date
20020412

Time
10:09
Damn it, I know I have a pair of 3D glasses somewhere in my desk.

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Date
20020412

Time
11:36
This is my weblog.

There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My weblog is my best friend.

It is my life.

I must master it, as I must master my life.

Without me my weblog is useless.

Without my weblog, I am useless.

Heh – can you guess what movie I watched last night?

In case you’re from another planet, or have dismissed this film as ‘just another war movie’, you can read the summary here or ruin the movie before you see it by reading the entire script here.

Those of you who do know what I’m talking about might enjoy this Sgt. Hartman soundboard, or a visit to Gunnery SGT. R. Lee Ermey’s official site.

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Date
20020412

Time
12:27
Wow, that caught me by surprise first time around. Google has a new feature that automatically refreshes your search if you (1) spell one or two words incorrectly and (2) that ‘incorrect’ search produces no results. Reliance on this can only add to my web-induced dyslexia, but what the hey.

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Date
20020412
Flash Games
Time
12:31
Are you a happy God or a vengeful God? Hmm. Only mildly amusing, primarily due to a lack of sound.

Playing with the world’s biggest magnifying glass is much more fun.

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Date
20020412

Time
14:34
Make your own Mr Man (you’ll need your speakers turned on to hear the instructions). Then, while you’re in the mood, go and learn your A-B-C’s.

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Date
20020412

Time
16:29
WARNING! If you laugh at this, you’ll go straight to hell.

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Date
20020412

Time
16:40
Get a free sample of dehydrated water.

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Date
20020412

Time
16:41
Alexander the Great had conquered almost the entire known world by the time he was my age. See what a waste you’ve made of your life by entering your age here and compare your accomplishments with folks who obviously have better things to do than visit my dumb weblog every day.

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Date
20020415

Time
09:14
As part of the Bush Administration’s ongoing efforts to obliterate all traces of terrorism in the United States, the Department of Justice has commenced registration of each and every American Patriot.

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Date
20020415

Time
09:19
You know, the increasing activity by amateur/weekend spammers is really starting to get on my tits. In case you’ve missed past comments about this issue, the current economic climate is driving more and more people to try one spam scheme or another ‘just the once’. This has not only led to a general upswell of spam (typically delivered over the weekend) but also an increase in the number of spammers who simply ‘CC’ everybody on their paid-for list, exposing these addresses to yet more abuse (because everybody who receives the spam subsequently gets to see a big chunk of the list the spammer paid for). Also, being amateurs, they more often than not organise these addresses in their Outlook Express Address Book – resulting in many, many viruses being delivered via this notorious security hole, courtesy of this new generation of spammers. Collectively, they stand to do a lot more damage in the very near future because of this. The wankers.

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Date
20020415

Time
09:44
A gallery of really bad greeting cards.

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Date
20020415

Time
09:49
Just because you love trees, it doesn’t mean that the trees love you!

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Date
20020415

Time
09:55
An entire Photoshop comp has bitten the dust. Why? Because the Henson Group stamped their little feet. Surely these works are protected under fair use?

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Date
20020415

Time
10:15
It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

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Date
20020415

Time
10:25
Woo! Yay! My book must have sold well over the weekend. Just look at that sales rating – 572! If I sell just a couple more today, then I zip up to the top 100 and usually sell a couple of dozen more as a result (because I make the ‘top titles’ list for the business category if I rank above 120 or thereabouts). If you’ve ever thought about buying this book – please buy it today!

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Date
20020415

Time
11:46
Steve Huey was suffering from an inoperable and fatal brain tumor. Doctors had given him only two months to live, so he decided to end it all by shooting himself in the head. The chances of him not only surviving this, but miraculously shooting out his brain tumor in the process were 254 million to one.

I’m sure you can guess what happened, though…

(Cheers to Rogi for the link.)

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Date
20020415

Time
11:57
Do you think the pop music industry is at its lowest ebb ever? Think again.

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Date
20020415

Time
12:40
Queen Mum, We Love You. Sweet. Touching. Evil.

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Date
20020415

Time
14:47
Here’s the site of someone who does every lame quiz they come across. Hosted at Geocities, of course…

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Date
20020415

Time
15:03
Jakob Nielsen is thinking of the children.

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Date
20020415

Time
15:05
You know those X-10 wireless mini-camera ads that have been popping up everywhere? The signal these cameras send out can be intercepted from more than a quarter-mile away by anyone with the right kit and a little know-how. There’s no law to stop such snoops from doing so, either.

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Date
20020415

Time
15:11
WARNING! This link doesn’t work for everybody.

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Date
20020415

Time
15:14
There are only 10 types of people in the world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

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Date
20020415

Time
15:19
Oh God, I think I’m going to be sick!

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Date
20020415

Time
16:57
Uh-oh. A good thing the web has so many dating sites, then.

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Date
20020318

Time
09:08
A bunch of cops were sitting around celebrating a divorce (as you do) when it was decided that some hardcore pornography might liven proceedings up. Of course, women have no place when it comes to pornography, so they decided to get rid of the one female officer who was present by making a phony ‘911’ call. The highly original fake name they used was ‘Jane Johnson’. (Sorry, that last bit is only funny to me.)

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Date
20020318

Time
09:15
This will keep you busy for a while… The Museum of Hoaxes.

They even have my personal favourite, the BBC’s Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.

I found it interesting that hoaxes are grouped in 50 year brackets, but the period 1999-2001 requires an entire category to itself. Is this what we’re going to be remembered for?

(Yet another quality link from ultimateinsult.net)

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Date
20020318
Mustard Man
Time
09:25
DAY FOUR (and a bit)

Still no joy on the muchmusic front. I may hassle them with a fax today when the boss isn’t looking.

I found this gentlemen in Usenet who uses the name ‘Mustard Man’ for trolling purposes, but it really is no substitute for the real thing.

Don’t worry, we will find Mustard Man. It’s only a matter of time.

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Date
20020318

Time
09:55
Deep in the archives of the BurningBird I found this, a short but very sweet collection of shaggy dog stories:

Shaggy Dog Stories 1

Shaggy Dog Stories 2

Shaggy Dog Stories 3

Here’s one extra from me to complete the list:

A Collection of SDS Puns

Of course, not all Shaggy Dog stories end in puns. Some of best just, well, end. My personal favourite here is the saga of Father Bear and Baby Bear, but now is not the time to tell it. I need a few drinks in me first, and it’s nowhere near midday yet.

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Date
20020318

Time
10:42
B3TA goes begging.

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Date
20020318

Time
11:44
At long last, Michael Jackson is going home.

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Date
20020318
Photoshopping
Time
13:49
Yet more attention for us Photoshopping geeks. I wish they’d stop, it only encourages us…

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Date
20020318

Time
14:07
Oh, dear God!

Could this really be the site of the web design company run by James Major?

The whois lookup checks out and there is an Emma Noble gallery stashed in the back, but surely this has to be a joke. Please tell me that it’s a joke…

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Date
20020318

Time
14:24
What did you get your Mum for Mother’s Day?

Was it anything as nice as this?

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Date
20020318

Time
15:03
Woman dates man. Finds out what he was really like via his weblog.

Not really fair, though. I mean, we’re all like that.

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Date
20020319

Time
09:35
Behold the Sock Jedi.

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Date
20020319
Another Lame Quiz
Time
09:35
Which HTML Tag Are You?

<tag>I’m it.</tag>

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Date
20020319

Time
09:44
Oh, goody – a new weblog directory to play with.

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Date
20020319

Time
09:48
Remember yesterday’s story about a guy who dated a woman smart enough to look him up in Google? I found him (and so have a few other people by the looks of things). It wasn’t quite as simple as searching ‘Joel’ ‘handjob’ ‘Library Girl’, but it was pretty easy. Personally, I think the journalist should have shown more care. The offending diary entry is here, BTW. Drop by and say hello if you like, but be nice. This kind of shaming can’t be easy to live with.

(If you’re reading this article in the bloggerheads archive, then this might be a better link for you.)

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Date
20020319
Mustard Man
Time
10:00
DAY FIVE

Still no joy on the muchmusic front. If they take more than a week to answer their email, I’m seriously considering sending an envelope stuffed with talcum powder, just to keep them on their toes.

For those of you who are sick of looking at the same picture every day (here’s a large version if you missed it) I’ve knocked together this rather obvious Photoshop of our hero. Enjoy.

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Date
20020319

Time
10:26
Mysterious Giant Fish Washes Up on Beach. Yes, there’s even a picture. I could tell you where I’ve seen weirder, but it involves an overly long cautionary tale about smoking pot before snorkelling and why it’s generally a pretty bad idea.

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Date
20020319

Time
10:57
This is cool. Somebody thinks my book makes a good promotional giveaway.

Whatever shifts them is fine with me.

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Date
20020319

Time
13:13
The original author of ‘If The World Were a Village’ is Donella H. Meadows. Just thought you should know.

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Date
20020319
Photoshopping
Time
13:23
A good Photoshop competition over at fark.com today.

You can see a larger version of my entry by clicking here.

The rest of the entries are over at fark.

You know who to vote for – get to it.

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Date
20020319
Flash Games
Time
13:44
Pegball is the mutt’s nuts. Kind of slow at first, but once you get the hang of it, you’re away.

Also, check out this great collection from the flash team over at spikything.com (‘kick-ups’ was the game that first got my attention, but you really must try ‘mutant snowmen’, it’s a great shoot-em-up).

Oh, and while we’re on the subject, the now-classic Spaced Penguin has a new home. Have fun.

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Date
20020319

Time
13:53
Watch out, bloggers and bloggettes – we’ve been rumbled.

Prepare yourselves for the invasion of the mainstream.

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Date
20020320

Time
09:06
Amuse yourself with the subtle differnce between www.tourettes.com and www.tourettes.co.uk.

(As noticed by a B3ta boarder – go there and give today.)

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Date
20020320

Time
09:08
Who could possibly deserve it more? Browse a collection of defaced Britney Spears posters.

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Date
20020320
Mustard Man
Time
09:19
DAY SIX

Damn it, I’ve just checked my email and there’s still no reply from muchmusic about the origins of Mustard Man. Someone did react to yesterday’s photoshop, however, and noticed that Mustard Man looks a little bit like Johnny Vegas.

So, here and now for your viewing pleasure, we proudly present an image with which to illustrate this rather pointless point.

More on Mustard man tomorrow. (As usual, we close with a link to a large picture of Mustard Man for those who came in late.)

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Date
20020320

Time
12:16
This london estate agent needs my help. It’s SEO man to the rescue!

(insert ‘whooshing’ sound here…)

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Date
20020320

Time
12:28
I’m a notorious keyboard basher from way back. Maybe a virtual keyboard is the solution. Or maybe not. Knowing me, all I’d end up with is bruised fingers and a dented desk surface.

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Date
20020320

Time
12:34
Making entertainment out of misery. Tune into spamradio.com today to hear speech generation technology going to waste in the most amazing and strangely satisfying way possible.

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Date
20020320

Time
12:48
Looking into my magic mirror, I notice lots of people dropping by today on the lookout for Joel of ‘handjob’ and ‘library girl’ fame/shame/etc. He’s over here and the offending diary entry is here. Be nice.

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Date
20020321

Time
09:28
Web users are stubbornly sticking to the culture of free according to this article.

*sigh*

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

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Date
20020321

Time
09:31
Cook up some popcorn and get ready to throw it at your television set – here’s a collection of videos showing every Eurovision entry since 1957 in Realplayer file or stream format. Can somebody tell me why this is necessary?

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Date
20020321

Time
09:38
And you thought spamradio was the ultimate in soullessness? Now we’ve got singing and dancing robots! I smell a novelty Christmas single in four-part harmony, I does.

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Date
20020321

Time
09:47
A very cool site about doctors. It’s all true, I tells ya!

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Date
20020321
Mustard Man
Time
10:35
DAY SEVEN

Ahahahahahahahahaha! I love this. The wonderful and talented Frank Gumola has been following the Mustard Man story, and informs us of the latest sighting, this time in the all-new N*SYNC lineup.

After 3 emails to 3 different departments, there’s still no reply from muchmusic, so no hyperlink for them today.

Feel free to send your own Mustard Man sighting in. We have to have something to do while we wait for the jobs-worths at muchmusic to get their ship together.

(As usual, we close with a link to a large picture of Mustard Man for those who came in late.)

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Date
20020321

Time
11:20
Today’s juicy conspiracy theory: those naughty NASA nobbins have been editing UFOs out of their footage.

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Date
20020321

Time
11:25
Play Spot Simon Fuller with Popbitch. Download the image of his school photo circa 1978, spot the young version of Pop Idol’s Mr Nasty and win!

[UPDATE – It’s already in the bag, sorry folks. Those trousers were a dead giveaway…)

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Date
20020321

Time
12:55
Geremino T. Ranallo, 65 and Warren G. Jacoby, 50, were convicted on a charge of disorderly conduct and fined $502 for spraying fart spray in a supermarket. Afterward, Ranallo said the judge’s decision angered him.

“I don’t want to be known as the fart guy,” he said.

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Date
20020321

Time
15:12
I spent most of my day neck-deep in HTML, but at least I had time to manage this.

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Date
20020321

Time
16:19
Damn it all to hell, they cut the red-hot lesbian love scene from the new Scooby Doo movie. There’s no reason to go and see it now…

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Date
20020322

Time
10:47
Good morning, everyone! Sorry I’m late – I received a very interesting email last night concerning one of my sites and subsequently spent most of this morning writing an article about it. Enjoy.

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Date
20020322

Time
10:50
Not surprisingly, I’m in a bit of cantankerous mood this morning, so this link from the Ultimate Insult suits me right down to the ground. Join Operation Clambake and take a stand against the Church of Scientology.

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Date
20020322

Time
10:54
I detect a bit of a theme developing today. The guy who’s been charging spammers with a $25 ‘reading fee’ just had a win in court. Hooray for him!

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Date
20020322

Time
11:25
Burglar breaks into home and steals a 9-year-old’s tooth fairy money.

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Date
20020322
Mustard Man
Time
11:31
DAY EIGHT

Today’s Mustard Man sighting comes courtesy of the excellent farker Skratch, who spotted our hero preparing to cater to the rich and famous.

No, muchmusic still haven’t replied to my many emails, so I’m left here looking like a total dope until they do.

Oh well, things could be worse. I could be grossly overweight and work in a fast food restaurant for one…

(As usual, we close with a link to a large picture of Mustard Man for those who came in late. Do feel free to send in your own sightings.)

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Date
20020322

Time
12:18
Rogi deserves a little reciprocal link love, so he does. He runs a tidy weblog, our Rogi. Go check it out.

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Date
20020322

Time
12:38
Buy a non-toxic, non-smelly dirty diaper for those moments in life when a tasteless practical joke is the only viable course of action. You may also wish to round off your online retail therapy session with the purchase of the world’s most straightforward toilet paper.

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Date
20020322

Time
12:51
Cool. Even more toilet paper.

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Date
20020322

Time
13:03
Load and loads of flashing Bush.

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Date
20020322

Time
13:08
The new picture editor at the BBC news site is a closet Photoshopper. You heard it here first.

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Date
20020322

Time
13:48
RE: that article you probably haven’t read yet:

Hmm, it seems urban75 has had to deal with similar stupidity in the past.

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Date
20020322
Google Sell-Out Leads To Downhill Slide
Time
15:35
I’ve always been a big fan of Google, but I must admit to getting an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach every time they introduce yet another sponsorship or paid placement model.

Take this example, erm, for example.

The search query is ‘child safe chat rooms’. Just take a look at the ad that appears (click the former link to see the live result if you like, but it doesn’t appear in all countries, so you may instead wish to click here for a screengrab of it).

‘Sexy chat and webcam rooms’? WTF is with that? I’m disappointed to say the least.

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Date
20020322

Time
16:04
I’ve just found a handy little tool that makes a visit to tourettes.com much more entertaining.

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Date
20020322

Time
16:15
British Library discovers it is sitting on a powder keg. Literally.

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Date
20020322

Time
16:18
OK, so sexy chat rooms aren’t all bad, but all the same….

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Date
20020322

Time
17:15
There are more Scientolgists than there are Rastafarians. What a sad world we live in.

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Date
20020325
.com vs .co.uk
Time
09:12
The inimitable Neil T would like to bring the following contrast to your attention:

www.supertramp.com

www.supertramp.co.uk

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Date
20020325

Time
09:25
Management at AOL tried to encourage its 82,000 employees to use AOL e-mail. The response was less than enthusiastic.

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Date
20020325

Time
09:28
Normally it would be easy for you to get that ‘drugged-up and couldn’t give damn rock-star’ feeling by browsing through some images of very expensive car wrecks. Sadly, none appear to have been driven into swimming pools (or thrown out of hotel windows). Most disappointing, however, is the webmaster’s assumption that you’ll be willing to pay $5 to view the site. Yet another symptom of the Big Change. It’s coming your way, children. Prepare yourselves.

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Date
20020325

Time
10:07
Amuse yourself briefly with the Homer Simpson soundboard.

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Date
20020325

Time
11:19
Search this US Driver’s License Database.

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Date
20020325
Mustard Man
Time
13:26
DAY NINE (and a bit)

Today’s Mustard Man sighting comes from Godzilla, yet another excellent farker and well-known MM fan.

Will there be another sighting tomorrow? Will muchmusic ever get back to me regarding the origins of Mustard Man? Only time will tell.

(As usual, we close with a link to a large picture of Mustard Man for those who came in late. Do feel free to send in your own sightings.)

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Date
20020325

Time
14:26
A great collection of Spaceman Spiff games and comics (if you have to ask, you don’t deserve to know).

This link arrived at what is hopefully the end of a totally spiffed-out day at Fark.com (again, if you have to ask…)

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Date
20020325

Time
15:21
A weblog that watches Google.

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Date
20020325

Time
15:33
I lost some parts watching Lego Troopers.

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Date
20020325

Time
15:42
I remember once upon a time, when I wanted to make the FAQ for uk.local.london as (ahem) ‘useful’ as possible, I ran it through AltaVista’s Babelfish into French, then German, then back into English to get that authentic ‘Frangalis’ touch. If only the Multibabel facility had existed back then. I could have saved myself an entire 20 minutes on this pointless exercise. Go check it out. Play Chinese Whispers with yourself. It’s perfectly harmless, and you won’t go blind, I promise.

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Date
20020325
Advance Warning: Light Bloggage Ahead
Time
16:51
I’m off to north Woop Woop for one of those tedious meeting things for almost all of tomorrow, and even though I hope to be back for a big’un on Wednesday, be aware that Jesus Weekend starts on Friday (and I may even take off a day early if I’m in the mood to do so). You have been warned.

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Date
20020326

Time
09:33
I’m off to a meeting that will probably take up most of my day today, but I woke up this morning with the final piece of the puzzle for my upcoming novel (I hear you laughing, you bastards!) and I’m trying to keep my mind off it so I can focus on the task at hand.

So, to get the whole thing out of my system and keep you entertained on this day of light bloggage, I present to you one very short story.

I read all kinds of things, but my favourite genre by far is ‘Golden Age’ Science Fiction. Some of the writing in this period dealt less with space ships & aliens and more with what could best be described as ‘storytelling sleight of hand’ – precluding (and indeed inspiring) television shows such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, etc. etc. etc.

The true art of this discipline lay in changing the entire aspect of the story with its final sentence. Achieving this with the final word was the ultimate challenge, as was linking this with the title of the story to create a double-whammy of sorts.

The short story To Serve Man by Damon Knight is not only the finest example of this sub-genre, it was also adapted for television by Rod Serling, went on to become the most popular Twilight Zone episode ever, and even had the piss taken out of it in The Simpsons. Two Stars is an open tribute not only to the structure of this SF classic, but also its central device.

Enjoy:

TWO STARS

By Tim Ireland

It was to be mankind’s greatest moment. The aliens had landed only months before and here we were being presented, as promised, with our guide to the universe. Ambassadors, dignitaries and a team of specially prepared translators watched the sky, awaiting the robotic shuttle that would deliver our key to the stars.

As the deadline grew closer, conversations were struck up here and there in an unconscious attempt to relieve tension and allay nerves. Soon an active discussion was underway, focusing primarily on what should be regarded as the highlight of the aliens’ visit.

The French ambassador insisted that the combination of the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles was enough to stagger anyone’s senses, and swore that he saw one of the aliens draw a sharp breath at the sight of Mont St Michel.

The representative from Australia snorted, suggesting this may have been due to the stench of low tide at the time. Ignoring looks of death from the French, he then went on to describe at great length the natural wonders found only in Australia, including its unique fauna, the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru. Mentioning also how taken the visitors were with the beauty of the surrounding islands, he closed by magnanimously declaring the entire South Pacific region to be the most impressive leg of the tour.

An Egyptian delegate babbled on about the wonders of the Sphinx and the Pyramids, only to be shouted down by the Chinese who insisted the Great Wall and Forbidden City were greater in size and beauty. The Indian Prime Minister had tears in his eyes as he related (yet again) the romantic story behind the Taj Mahal, and all the while the Americans interjected with Grand Canyon this and Mount Rushmore that.

It came dangerously close to resembling a brawl when the shuttle finally arrived. An odd hush fell over the gathering as the module opened. The Chief Translator reverently removed the long awaited book and hustled into the conference room with his team in tow.

The arguments had just started afresh when the team emerged from the room barely two minutes after going in. The Chief Translator hushed the crowd with a gesture and held the book aloft.

“Gentlemen, our guide to the universe…” he drew breath as if steeling himself, “…our ‘guide to the universe’ is a tourist brochure.”

“And what’s more” he added, “the little bastards only gave us two stars!”

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Date
20020327

Time
09:15
Is this maybe the one time of the year that someone actually manages to drag you into a church? Why not liven up proceedings by standing up during the service and reading out a few choice excerpts from the The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible?

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Date
20020327

Time
09:18
The British Conservative Catholics were formed ‘to counter the many sinister forces that are pitted against us, especially the Atheist Movement and the agents of Satan’. Drop by and say hello.

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Date
20020327

Time
09:22
A chap named Lucas Patrick walked into his local police headquarters last Wednesday and announced he was Jesus Christ. He then led officers to 16 bags of crack cocaine in his vehicle and told them they’d earn “salvation” by arresting him on drug charges.

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Date
20020327

Time
09:43
An oldie but a goodie – Inspirational Sport Statues.

Jesus wants me for his sports team.

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Date
20020327

Time
10:17
Black Jesus Picture Collection. Ridiculous. Everybody knows that Jesus was Anglo-Saxon.

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Date
20020327

Time
10:41
“During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I was riding the pogostick.” Heh. Cute, but only momentarily distracting. OK, here’s one that’ll keep you busy for a while. Check out jesusoftheweek.com!

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Date
20020327

Time
10:46
Now you really can get a hole lot more out of life.

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Date
20020327

Time
11:42
Become an ordained minister in less than 3 minutes and start your own ministry or church of any faith or religion. I did this a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back since. Chicks dig the uniform, y’see…

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Date
20020327

Time
11:45
shoesofthefisherman.com offers sandals that imprint the words ‘Jesus Loves You’ into the sand as you stroll about on the beach (presumably on the lookout for bikini-clad women in need of salvation). Interesting, BTW, that they feel the need to point out so prominently that the sandals are ‘made in Taiwan in a clean, Christian-owned factory that employs adult Christian workers that are paid a living wage’.

When I saw this site for the first time a couple of years ago, I came up with the brilliant idea of an alternative pair of sandals that imprinted the words; ‘Everyone Else Thinks You’re a C**t’. Unfortunately, my brilliant plan fell through – as sandals with this much text on the soles would only have been available in sizes 18 and above.

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Date
20020327

Time
11:59
These people believe that if Jesus were alive today, he would be a vegetarian. (Hang on, Jesus is alive today, isn’t he?) If that isn’t enough to float your boat, try instead this company that markets food made only from ingredients mentioned in the Bible. The Bible Bar is by far their best product, helping you as it does to (impending pun warning) work, rest and pray.

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Date
20020327

Time
14:11
For over thirty years, Jack Chick has been producing those small Christian comic books that get thrust into your hand by smug, self-satisfied witnessing types. This chap seems to think that it’s a bad thing. Personally, I think it’s great that a porn-obsessed child molester can find salvation within 40 frames. It’s also good to see issues like homosexuality and sexually transmitted disease dealt with in such a balanced and practical way. Who cares if it burns when you pee? You’ve got Jesus!

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Date
20020327

Time
14:59
Adult Christianity has a bunch of stuff stashed throughout the site, and waaaay too many features and benefits to list here (they even have their own versions of Chick tracts. Start with the XXX Bible and work your way down to hell from there. (Oh, there’s more naughty Bible passages here.)

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Date
20020327

Time
15:09
The Bible Gateway allows you to search multiple versions of the Bible in nine different languages. Big deal. The Unbound Bible has 10 English versions, Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages), 4 ancient versions and 42 versions in other languages. So there. (Oops, just found another collection of rude bits…)

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Date
20020327
Instant Jesus
Time
15:17
Ask Jesus a question. Go to the Chestnut Cafe and follow the link to ‘Get Jesus Now’. Accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour with one click, see Him looking over your shoulder, dress Him as you please, see Him wink, or simply pray to the guy and see what happens. If you don’t get what you pray for, you can always buy it with your Jesus Card. Don’t leave church without it!

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Date
20020327

Time
15:31
Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearance if a certain body.

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Date
20020327

Time
15:39
divine-interventions.com offer all sorts of (ahem) intimate products that allow you to make a religious statement that would make Linda Blair blush. Choose from the Diving Nun, the Jackhammer Jesus, the Baby Jesus Buttplug and more. Eurgh. Excuse me while I pop off to cleanse myself and confess.

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Date
20020327

Time
15:57
Oh goody, now the Bibleman collection features a special Bibleman Jr. video, so concerned parents can drum the Christian message into kiddies at an even more malleable age. I preferred Willie Aames when he was a notorious teenage breast grabber in movies like Zapped! and Paradise. Hell, even the return of Charles in Charge would be preferable to this disgraceful brainwashing.

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Date
20020327

Time
16:15
Motor Cross 30AD – Christ on a Bike. The title is better that the page, I must admit. This was actually one of the first web pages I built with my own two little hands, and boy does it show. Still, nearly 5 years on it still pulls in the punters. Why change it?

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Date
20020327

Time
16:45
A lot of people are going to view these links over the weekend and wonder where I stand with regards to religion. Well, it’s a highly personal question but I’ll comply just this once.

I think that I can best be described as an eclectic agnostic.

I was born a Presbyterian, attended the Uniting Church, went to a Baptist Sunday School (it was just across the road) and lived in a largely Roman Catholic area when I was a little bit older. Heck, I even scammed a few free wafers while I was in the neighbourhood. I became involved in Christian groups like Interact when I was a teenager, got married in a C of E church and even have a friendly word or two for the local vicar when we pass on the street.

So where did they lose me?

I’m still wondering that myself, but on this day in particular I’m reminded of a certain Sunday School lesson at the aforementioned Baptist church. The same teacher who maintained that men have two less ribs than women was teaching us about Easter. Easter Eggs, she said, were representative of Christ’s tomb, in you open them on Easter Sunday and lo-and-behold they’re empty. Praise Jesus! She then went on to inform us that eggs with Smarties or other such sweets inside were therefore an abomination. I’m not sure how those little solid eggs or milk chocolate bunnies work into this theory, but at the tender age of six I didn’t think to ask. I was too busy trying to look up her dress.

Enjoy the links, and have a good weekend.

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Date
20020330

Time
21:16
Yes she is. No I don’t.

Quote Of The Day

An old lady (who, presumably, had been convinced weeks or months ago to relate a version of her memories of the Queen Mum in the past tense), referring to the blitz visits as follows:

“Oh, she were grand. She condescended to come down and meet us, she did.”

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Date
20020301

Time
09:28
Yet more joy on the Korean front. While the bulk of the traffic is coming from yesterday’s surprise inclusion in Yahoo, there’s still plenty of link love going on out there.

Cheers to the following M*A*S*H-addicted bloggers:

http://www.captainfez.com/blog/

http://dusavon.blogspot.com/

http://www.neuroti.ca/

http://meany.mine.nu/

There’s also lots of traffic coming from this Danish site. It pleases me to think that somewhere in Denmark, one of those stereotypically blonde, sexy and ‘up for it’ chicks is looking at my crappy quiz and thinking of maybe sleeping with me. It’s highly unlikely, it just pleases me to think about it is all.

We’re still waaaaaaaay down on the blogdex charts, so we have a long way to go yet – if, indeed, we get there at all.

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Date
20020301

Time
09:31
It’s very satisfying to see that there are still ideas out there that can stand alone as text.

Check out If Star Wars was set in Glasgow.

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Date
20020301

Time
10:20
Cool Japanese flash/ad thingy. The only word I understand is ‘Panasonic’, but that’s enough for me.

Hi-ho! Hi-ho!

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Date
20020301

Time
10:24
It’s pretty sloppy work, and they did Spam me (the bastards!), but if you’re into football this might prove to be momentarily distracting.

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Date
20020301

Time
10:46
A creationist is offering a $250,000 reward for scientific proof of evolution.

This won’t win me the money, but it’s something to chew on:

– Time is linked with entropy, i.e. the movement of matter in the universe.

– This movement of matter began with the big bang, or if you’re a creationist, the moment God sneezed.

– The subsequent movement has been decelerating constantly, but in the early stages time was moving veryveryfastindeed.

– This means that God could very well have created the heavens, the earth, and got the whole messy business of creating intelligent life and an environment to support it in 6 days (at least, 6 days according to the scale of time those folks what wrote the bible could relate to).

So, there you go. Creationism can sit side-by-side with Evolutionism. If you’re on the right medication, that is.

There, that’s that problem solved. Now, back to that multiple subscription solution I’ve been working on. Should be a doddle compared to this.

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Date
20020301
Latest Viral Agent
Time
11:42
Cool! Very, very cool!

Create a curse and send it to your friends. This is fan-tas-tic, and not just because it lets you address your target by (spoken) name or use some dangdoodle cusswords to describe them.

Here’s a sample. Check it out.

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Date
20020301

Time
14:25
No. Stop. Think about it. You need money to buy crack. M-o-n-e-y!

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Date
20020304

Time
08:29
This man-morphing thing should distract you for all of 30 seconds. It’s not much, but at least it’s a start.

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Date
20020304

Time
08:31
Tee-hee. I used www.create-a-curse.com to send anonymous curses to a few friends and colleagues on Friday. I’ve only been rumbled the once so far.

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Date
20020304

Time
08:35
Blogs make the news, erm, because they make the news. Read the article – you’ll get the idea.

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Date
20020304
Cops Aren’t Dopes #341
Time
09:03
A policeman detected a dark green substance in his taco “which looked and smelled like marijuana,” and yes, that’s just what it was. A 19-yr-old employee at the taco eatery was subsequently arrested.

Not fair! If this were the movies, the cop would have eaten the taco and been completely unaware that he had consumed a controlled substance. Hilarious antics would then follow, probably to a reggae soundtrack.

I say again; not fair!

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Date
20020304

Time
10:09
Doreen Waddell of Soul II Soul fame was caught shoplifting at Tesco. She ran outside when challenged by staff and was hit by three, count ’em, three cars and died later in hospital. I’ll drop in a news link as soon as an item appears.

Yep, here you go…

And the same story over at the BBC, where they obviously had trouble sourcing a photo of Ms Waddell. Nice choice. Coincidentally, BBC online is looking for a new picture editor.

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Date
20020304
Geek News
Time
11:05
Tim Burton is rumoured to direct Tron 2.0 – go out and celebrate with a frisbee!

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Date
20020304

Time
12:01
Yet another execise in pointlessness. Sum up your experiences in 2001 in 20 words or less.

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Date
20020304

Time
12:12
One Rev. Harvey Polstom claims that ‘Boy Bands Are Making Our Kids Gay!’

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Date
20020304
Latest Viral Agent
Time
14:48
Viral in more ways than one: supershagland.com

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Date
20020305

Time
09:54
There will be much busy-busy-busy-ness today, and therefore light bloggage. I can, however, offer you the inescapable sadness of The Xanadu Preservation Society.

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Date
20020305

Time
10:36
Behold the history of comic books! Oh, and a fine collection of comic book ads (yes, I used to own some sea-monkeys – they died). Oh, and a collection of Hostess ads, complete with running commentary.

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Date
20020306

Time
09:01
The latest edition of Celebrity Bestiality is out. This month: Jamie Oliver and puns aplenty.

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Date
20020306

Time
15:56
More Jamie Oliver bashing for your viewing pleasure. Pukka!

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Date
20020307

Time
09:06
This excellent article on weblogs and their effect on Google has been followed up with an equally good piece on Googlebombing.

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Date
20020307

Time
09:14
Just what the world needs – a virtual Rubix cube.

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Date
20020307

Time
10:13
This chap likes the colour blue. But not hyperlink-blue, which makes him a bit queer in my book.

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Date
20020307

Time
10:26


From the U.S. Copyright Office FAQ:

How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?

“Copyright law does not protect sightings. However, copyright law will protect your photo (or other depiction) of your sighting of Elvis. Just send it to us with a form VA application and the $30 filing fee. No one can lawfully use your photo of your sighting, although someone else may file his own photo of his sighting. Copyright law protects the original photograph, not the subject of the photograph.”

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Date
20020307

Time
13:03
A dictionary of Britishisms and a guide for those Americans reading Harry Potter who may not understand proper English like what is spoken over here.

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Date
20020307

Time
13:13
The human virus scanner. Pure genius. Go there now and find out what brands you’ve been infected with.

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Date
20020307
From the Department of O.O.P.S
Time
13:16
A man charged with sexually assaulting a girl at a church and suspected in two other assaults was mistakenly placed in a cell with a teenage girl, erm, whom he sexually assaulted.

Authorities have described the incident as ‘unfortunate’.

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Date
20020307

Time
13:21
William Shatner is tring to ‘do a Wheaton‘.

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Date
20020308

Time
08:56
Eleven U.S. students have been suspended for purposely making themselves pass out as part of a fad. Big deal. There was a bunch of guys at my school who had some kind of weird vomiting club going on. One of the sickest things they did was dare someone in their group to eat a packet of Fruit Tingles, throw them up onto a paper plate and then (gulp) eat them again. He did it. In front of a hude audience in the playground. For about 20 dollars (if memory serves). Considering the growing popularity of shows like Jackass it could be said that they were truly men ahead of their time. Anyways, their ability to throw up ‘at command’ improved to a level where they could easily get out of assemblies, exams and the like just with a couple of well-placed fingers. Passing out? Hah! What a bunch of pussies….

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Date
20020308

Time
09:12
Meet Sandy Allen, the world’s tallest living woman. Are all tall chicks this sexy?

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Date
20020308

Time
09:15
A juicy consipiracy theory to punctuate your day and challenge your perceptions. Take a close look at the photos. I saw the ghost of Elvis.

He must have been driving the truck.

(As usual, one of the better links of the day comes from the Ultimate Insult.)

[UPDATE – On the very day the above link gets widespread coverage on the web, some previously unreleased images of the moment of impact mysteriously appear. A staggering co-inky-dink…]

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Date
20020308

Time
14:25
$cientology Vs. The Weekly World News – is there a difference and can you detect it?

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Date
20020308

Time
14:39
Bored? Why not take a few minutes to shave your testicles? If you’re in the office right now, please do try to exercise discretion – and clean up those curlies when you’re finished!

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Date
20020308

Time
15:05
I love a good mystery, I does.

Who is this woman, what is her picture doing buried deep in the annals of the website for this Baptist Church and why, I’m wondering, is the plastic wrap necessary?

I need sleep.

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Date
20020311

Time
09:12
An oldie but a goodie, and worth blogging because the creator of this excellent distraction classifies his online work as ‘art’. Maybe I can do the same and get ten grand a pop for all the crap I’ve created over the years.

Anyway, here it is – The Simulator.

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Date
20020311

Time
09:16
In a rotten mood this Monday morning? Use the wonders of modern technology to kill everyone (or do it the old-fashioned way just like those wonderful merkins are planning).

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Date
20020311

Time
10:06
Things move pretty fast in the new, improved ‘cut and paste’ pop industry. Throughout Pop Idol, a thousand careers are conceived and aborted before our very eyes. The ‘lone’ survivor is launched two weeks after the close of the competition with posters all over London assuring us that ‘The Wait Is Over’. Now the fledgling star is outed less than a month into his career (by my estimation, at least two years ahead of schedule). In the coming week, we should expect Will to get fat and suffer from drug abuse. A comeback will then follow, probably sometime next Thursday after lunch.

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Date
20020311

Time
11:29
The Rubberband Machine Gun is for wimps. Real men aspire to ownership of a Lego Machine Gun. You have to be able to take it apart and put it back together again in 60 seconds, too. While blindfolded. And under fire. Then you have to give your Lego Machine Gun a girl’s name. Etc.

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Date
20020311

Time
11:59
Nude photography by Leonard Nimoy. That’s ‘by’, not ‘of’.

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Date
20020311

Time
13:29
Remember in Electric Dreams where the guy spills champagne on the computer and it magically starts expressing thoughts and emotions? Check out the digital camera that’s come over all arty after being dropped in a pond. Some very cool images here.

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Date
20020311

Time
14:37
Make your own mutant fish.

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Date
20020311

Time
16:44
Some wacko, far from pleased with the quality of widescreen television, took hostages in the wrong building, made them put signs in the windows (presumably so the people he actually had a beef with got the message) and then shot himself. Last report, he was still alive and kicking. And an idiot.

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Date
20020312

Time
08:35
I’ve just been described as ‘L33t’. I had to look it up. There’s irony for you.

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Date
20020312

Time
08:36
I bet young boys still look under her dress.

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Date
20020312

Time
08:38
Robbie Rist, aka ‘Cousin Oliver’, the boy who killed the Bradys, is doing the Johnny Bravo thang. Rock on, Robbie.

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Date
20020312

Time
08:46
A Texas school cancelled the performance of an anti-violence play after fighting broke out amongst students who were watching it.

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Date
20020312

Time
08:52
Learn Oirish Slang instantly! Send no money (we’ll bill you).

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Date
20020312

Time
08:54
Google kicks ass. Well, duh!

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Date
20020312

Time
08:56
Too much online love can kill you. Or at least mess you up a whole lot.

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Date
20020312
Photoshopping
Time
09:03
Yet more mainstream attention for the world’s greatest interactive art form. It even makes case for fair use, which is interesting given the focus of my main meeting for today. Oh shit, I’m late! See you soon, kids.

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Date
20020312

Time
12:09
Who’da thunk it? Jimmy Carter was a sex monster. Film at eleven.

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Date
20020312

Time
14:50
Prince Philip is a twat. And a face-changing alien.

BTW, the Queen likes it: doggie -style.

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Date
20020312

Time
15:58
Meet andrew-washington.com

He’s 33, single, and has just recently moved to Kent.

He also has a ‘three-day goatee’ (negotiable). Go get him, girls!

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Date
20020312
Not Safe For Work
Time
16:03
The loveable cynics over at Fark have only now discovered the wonders of Kelly Brook.

Who am I to discourage them?

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Date
20020312

Time
16:10
Jesus seeped!

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Date
20020313

Time
08:58
A cyber-enhanced Jesus. Not recommended for the dashboard of your car.

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Date
20020313

Time
09:00
Interrogation by torture would never happen in America – primarily because the US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal. Nice one.

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Date
20020313

Time
09:03
Yahoo are hungry. And desperate, by the looks of things.

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Date
20020313

Time
09:05
Win a lunch date with David Lynch.

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Date
20020313

Time
09:09
Boy, these spammers never miss a trick. I’ve just been sent an email offering ‘OLYMPIC GAMES RAPE!!!’

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Date
20020313

Time
13:27
Ho-hum, it’s been done.

Spot what’s wrong with this picture, but only if you’ve been hiding under a rock on Mars since last year.

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Date
20020313

Time
13:29
Find Rob and win big prizes. Teehee. We like Rob, and we love bacon. We’re up for it.

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Date
20020313

Time
13:54
Almost a week later, the BBC reports on Googlebombs. Overpaid tossers.

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Date
20020313

Time
14:26
Found: the girl who talks with her eyes.

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Date
20020313

Time
14:45
Ho-hum. I had an idea for a cool quiz last night, but it’s already been done.

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Date
20020313

Time
16:08
The web has a new hero!

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Mustard Man.

The worst possible moment on the worst possible day in a career going nowhere… and somebody caught it on camera.

Great things await Mustard Man. His fame will spread far and wide from this moment on. Due to his newfound celebrity, he will be rescued from the hell of the fast food kitchen and instead thrust into the heavens as a shining cautionary example to us all.

Dog bless you, Mustard Man! We salute you and the bravery with which you have faced your daily trials. Yours is a life so illustrative of the human condition that you deserve the immortality of fame like no other.

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Date
20020313

Time
16:31
Rat-bread. Yummy!

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Date
20020314

Time
09:09
I walked past a bunch of kids playing football on my way home last night. One of the first things I noticed was a tiny 7-year-old in goal. The goal mouth was absolutely cavernous compared to this poor little titch. He was covered in mud and muck, and had a big scrape on his face. He’d obviously been through hell defending the thing. It started to rain heavily, and someone shouted “OK, next goal wins!”

Within seconds, the ball went sailing through the air and right past the little goalkeeper. I half-expected him to burst into tears, but instead he screamed out at the top of his lungs:

“Where was the fucking de-fence?!?”

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Date
20020314

Time
09:17
Mmmmm, Vegemite.

On toast, the greatest hangover cure known to man. Set to music, the most uplifting anthem in existence.

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Date
20020314

Time
09:25
Be patient, this is a busy download this morning.

Listen to the UK’s next No. 1:

Meet The Kilshaws

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Date
20020314

Time
09:47
The quiz thing. It’s out of control. It’s way, way, way out of control.

What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Are You?

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Date
20020314
Mustard Man
Time
10:00
DAY TWO

The gentleman who brought Mustard Man to my attention via Fark isn’t too sure that he’s done a good thing.

All the same, I have been reliably informed that the picture came from an entry to a contest on muchmusic.

I’ll be contacting them today to see if we can track that entrant down. We must find Mustard Man and give his his due!

(Click here to see a bigger picture of Mustard Man)

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Date
20020314

Time
10:59
Lots of cool backwards masking and reversed speech examples, complete with sound files. Use it next time someone brings up the Queen/Dust/Marijuana debate.

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Date
20020314
Spam Of The Week
Time
11:14
Some twit just spammed me, trying to sell a used army helicopter of all things. I’m still trying to get my head around the full implications of this idiocy.

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Date
20020314

Time
12:11
Remember Ivor Biggun?

I remember hearing the Winkers (misprint) album for the first time during a ‘wake-a-thon’ in the very early 80s. Yes, we actually convinced our parents and supervisors that letting us stay awake in the local hall for two days running would be a good fundraising idea. Man, did we get drunk.

We ran out of things to do at about 4am, so we must have listened to this supremely stupid album about a dozen times in all. I still know the entire Winkers Song off by heart.

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Date
20020314

Time
12:26
Yet another Googles, Weblogs, Etc. article. Just if you’re interested.

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Date
20020314

Time
15:17
George Carlin is trying to out-do Roger Mellie. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then don’t bother with either link, they’re just collections of very rude words.

Oh, while we’re on the subject, the The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang deserves a little link-love.

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Date
20020315

Time
09:16
Awww, diddums. The poor little murderer keeps getting woken up from his sleepy bo-bos.

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Date
20020315

Time
09:36
Y’know, there’s such a thing as being too fond of your car. Oh, won’t somebody pleeeease think of the children?

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Date
20020315

Time
09:39
Check out this very cool flash-based identikit thingy.

This is me. Well, a younger, sexier version of me. If I’m gonna have my image splashed all over the newspapers, I want to look good, dammit!

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Date
20020315

Time
09:47
First it was Pot Noodle with the litigious piss-take (there’s a desc. of it here), and now E4 are getting in on the act.

Not surprisingly, media buyers for the real snake-oil salesmen seems to exercising restraint as a result, which means less of the original ‘you can sue somebody for free’ ads in the short term, so there is that.

BTW, what is it with the Pot Noodle new meedja approach (or lack of it)?

They go to all this trouble, but there’s no indication of the competition at their tediusly w-w-w-wacky website.

Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that another company, Luminar Leisure, already owns notpoodle.com and notpoodle.co.uk – or maybe, just maybe, they don’t know or don’t care about this communications channel at all.

Given that their site has zero (and I mean zero) arming for search engines, I’d guess that it’s a little of both.

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Date
20020315
Mustard Man
Time
10:26
DAY THREE

No reply from muchmusic.com about the possible origins of Mustard Man.

Yet.

But… I did find this woefully underpopulated and somewhat misguided support group in Yahoo and this guy who calls himself Mustard Man, but, despite devoting his life to the condiment, still lacks the punchy pathos of our hero-in-waiting.

Where are you Mustard Man? The world needs you!

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Date
20020315

Time
10:47
Sorry I’m a day late with this news. I normally avoid The Sun because Rupert Murdoch is a (can’t bring myself to say it, sorry).

The chappie who was caught having sex with a goat by a trainload of passengers that stopped alongside his tin-sheeted lovenest denied it all, but was convicted on the strength of physical evidence – goat hairs in the underwear. Always a giveaway. They should make a commercial test kit for it.

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Date
20020315

Time
10:57
Sad loner andrew-washington.com has taken his ball and is going home. The site currently carries the message ‘Website removed until further notice due to infestation of juvenile delinquents’ etc. – but, and here’s the scoop, he was over at the B3ta Messageboard last night suggesting that he might set it up as some kind of pay-per-view thing. Good luck, Andrew.

(BTW, if you missed the original site, check out the increasingly useful Web Archive.)

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Date
20020315

Time
12:32
Google continues to evolve. Its latest useful appendage is a news search. Personally, I think I prefer Daypop, because it gives you the news and what folks are saying about it. We’ll see…

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Date
20020218

Time
09:45
Oh great. Now Paypal is evil. Can somebody please invent a good and just private and/or micropayment system before the web has to shut down for lack of funds?

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Date
20020218

Time
09:51
I was doing some research for the Universal Church of the Interactive Network to see if we could become an official bonafide religion (can you say ‘Amen’, brother?). Look at this top result in Google I happened across on my first try. Weird. Spooky.

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Date
20020218

Time
10:01
The Animal Control Dept. of Denver is fighting a Smurf infestation. Population problems like this, and still nobody knows how they breed? No wonder the world is going to hell.

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Date
20020218

Time
11:14
You cannot run, you cannot hide.

The world will end when memes collide.

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Date
20020218

Time
11:31
Click here to apply for a job and McDonalds. Heck, they’ll even hire you if you’re an illegal immigrant. Until you complain about working conditions, in which case you’ll be deported.

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Date
20020218

Time
11:36
Duck and cover, children. A very funny flash interpretation of the classic civil defence film.

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Date
20020218

Time
11:48
I’m sorry, but I find it amusing that a site offering Russian wives at knock-down prices also has a special on Pocket Translators. So you know what she’s nagging you about, presumably.

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Date
20020218

Time
12:04
On sale now at ebay: an ENRON Retirement Coffee Cup, complete with copy of their Code of Ethics.

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Date
20020218

Time
12:34
It’s the latest game to sweep the nation – Stuff The Cat.

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Date
20020218
Photoshopping
Time
14:26
Time for some farkin’ with Britney Spears in carbonite. How fun is that?

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Date
20020219

Time
09:12
Campaign Tip: Never release bad news in the run-up to an election. If you get caught afterwards; deny everything.

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Date
20020219

Time
09:18
Critic dares to lambast LOTR – gets mailbombed by thousands of geeks and freaks.

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Date
20020219

Time
10:25
Let Jesus into your monster truck rally.

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Date
20020219

Time
10:26
bidforsurgery.com – the ‘b’ stands for ‘bargain’.

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Date
20020219

Time
10:34
Not getting enough? Generate your own spam.

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Date
20020219

Time
11:08
B3ta’s which is better? machine has just been shot down by Google. Just when it was getting interesting…

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Date
20020219

Time
14:21
Phew!

Well, I’m glad I got that off my chest.

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Date
20020219

Time
14:39
Me and the Lord, we have an understanding. How about you?

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Date
20020219

Time
14:58
Pope John Paul has performed three exorcisms during his 23-year God-representing career. This doesn’t include ordering you, your mate and your esky offa his lawn (obscure Australian joke – sorry…)

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Date
20020220

Time
10:25
There’s been a lot of response to yesterday’s Pay The Paupers article. Most of the negative stuff was from people who missed the point, so if you haven’t read the article yet, I’d like to make it clear right here and now that it’s not about paying for small sites, and I don’t want your money, so please don’t send any. Thanks.

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Date
20020220

Time
10:28
Remember the main justification the record labels put forward for shutting down services like Napster? That of the poor starving music artist who got SFA for their efforts? As it turns out, under the new system put forward by those same record labels, erm, the artist gets SFA for their efforts.

Why am I not surprised?

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Date
20020220

Time
10:52
Charlotte Church is going to be legal in just over 13 hours, so what do we have to look forward to now that this classic countdown is all but over?

How about this – When Will O.J. Kill Again?

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Date
20020220

Time
11:22
Rocklopedia Fakebandica!

Listing every fake band from The Archies to Zack Attack.

Sure, I’ve got nothing better to do…

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Date
20020220

Time
12:30
It’s the end of free email as we know it:

Alta Vista

another.com

and yes, even Hotmail if this is anything to go by.

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Date
20020220

Time
14:08
The Brotherhood of Light is expecting intergalactic visitors to do a fly-by of the Winter Olympics. On Thursday. Between noon and 5 p.m.

Set your VCRs.

[UPDATE – More from the site of this same wacko… gasp in awe at the space needle from another dimension.]

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Date
20020220

Time
15:04
Check out some classic mugshots of pensioners at The Smoking Gun. No. 14 is by far my favourite.

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Date
20020220

Time
16:33
Slow porn? Sorry, it’s been done.

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Date
20020221

Time
09:11
Yanks can complain about Brit journalists all they want. After all, we’re the ones who have to live with them.

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Date
20020221

Time
09:14
Women with dogs. Kinkeeeee.

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Date
20020221

Time
10:11
Those who have complained, quite rightly, that the Pay The Paupers article offers no solutions will be happy to know that a solution is in the offing. Watch this space.

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Date
20020221

Time
10:28
Yet another (yawn) quiz – Which Sesame Street Character Are You? From what I can tell around the blogs, almost everyone turns out to be Ernie.

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Date
20020221

Time
10:40
Thanks go to Troutgirl for the link whoring. I love you babe, I really do – but try to make it more pointless next time, m’kay?

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Date
20020221

Time
10:51
Pop Idol meets Butlins: surely the very definition of cool…

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Date
20020221
Falling Cat Just Misses Baby
Time
12:01
He even left a cat-shaped hole in the bed – look, see?

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Date
20020221

Time
13:00
George Bush is a man of vision.

No, wait, before you go, see the proof!

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Date
20020221

Time
13:03
Here’s a variety we haven’t covered yet – camel rage.

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Date
20020221

Time
13:32
The Enron Answering Machine. Sure to be a big one on Blogdex tomorrow.

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Date
20020222

Time
09:15
I’ve been asked to plug a friend’s band, so; plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug, plug.

(Be warned that this is one of those sites that enlarges to take over your whole screen…)

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Date
20020222

Time
09:24
I’m off to some meetings in London today, so I apologise if the commentary and linkage is a little light. Tell you what, let’s have the Random Teen Weblog Generator take up the slack for a while.

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Date
20020222

Time
09:28
This quiz craze is really starting to get on my tits. I don’t want to link this one, but I feel I must bring it to your attention as a cautionary example if nothing else; What D&D Character Are You?

(I’m somewhere between the lard-arse dungeon master who runs games out of his basement and the skinny kid with mega-acne who Mum has to keep chasing out of the bathroom…)

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Date
20020222

Time
09:32
Google has always prided itself on being relevant and accurate above all. I’ve always prided myself on the ability to translate a site’s worth to a suitable ranking in Google, but now they’re just letting people throw money at it. This is a symptom of a much larger problem, people, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

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Date
20020222

Time
12:49
I’m at my first meeting and currently showing someone how weblogs work. Isn’t life thrilling?

I think I’ll use the opportunity for some common link whoring…

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Date
20020225

Time
09:10
Chuck Jones has passed away. No anvils were involved.

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Date
20020225

Time
09:13
Yet another exercise in futility: make your own nonsense font.

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Date
20020225

Time
09:14
A dynamite link from The Ultimate Insult:

GI Joe – World War II Combat Photographer.

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Date
20020225

Time
13:06
A 19-year-old woman caught shoplifting hair-care products attacked a clerk and fled but left behind her 7-month-old baby. This would have been a better story had the baby led the cops back to her home instead of the ID in her purse, which she also left behind.

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Date
20020225

Time
14:58
Smirnoff Ice. As clear as your conscience.

Erm, and devoid of any Smirnoff (or any kind of vodka, for that matter).

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Date
20020226
Latest Viral Agent
Time
09:16
Stone the crows, man!

Load up and get ready to fire, those bloody crows are at your marijuana crop again.

Good luck, enjoy your shooting – and watch out for rogue DEA agents!

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Date
20020226

Time
09:20
This quiz thing is waaaaaay out of control:

What Cigarette Brand Are You?

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Date
20020226

Time
15:00
Once again I feel that I must apologise for the light linkage. You see, I’m head-down arse-up working on some boring stuff (and my own lame quiz if I have time).

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Date
20020226

Time
15:02
The top ten cars for gays and lesbians. Yes, they appear to be serious.

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Date
20020226

Time
15:15
It’s weird the things you find with Google’s Image Search. I was looking for a pic of Ned Beatty and found this page dedicated to ‘cute, whale size men’. The Ned Beatty pic result came from a helpful list designed to tell you what movies show your favourite large, fat celebrities naked. The web has something for everybody, I guess.

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Date
20020226

Time
16:14
A woman in the office just claimed that if you’d endured childbirth, then you could go through anything. I don’t know why I felt it necessary to point out that if you’ve endured childbirth then anything could go through you, but I hope she decides to speak to me again someday.

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Date
20020226

Time
17:31
OK, it’s live. It might even work: Which M*A*S*H Character Are You?

I’ll be publishing the traffic results sometime soon so you can see what all the fuss is about without having to do a lame quiz of your own.

Cheers all.

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Date
20020227

Time
08:34
Another one of those ‘going to London to meet with Important people’ days today, so yes, linkage will be light. Not that it’s going to count for anything. By the looks of things, the Death Star is currently orbiting Saturn. We’re all doomed!

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Date
20020227

Time
08:50
Hooray! Someone’s made a flash version of Pitfall! And, just like the original game, it lets you cheat and go left from the start…

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Date
20020227
Posting Remotely
Time
14:14
Save the dotcoms!

Oh, won’t somebody pleeeeeeeeeease think of the children?

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Date
20020228

Time
08:52
I couldn’t get to a terminal when I found out yesterday afternoon, but rest assurred that I was out doing my bit. In fact, here’s what I would have posted had I been able to access the blog at about 8 o’clock last night:

Sho long, Spik, I’ll mish you! (hic)

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Date
20020228

Time
08:57
The M*A*S*H Quiz is spreading nicely. As I mentioned before, I’ll make a full report thingy for this after a while to let you know how fast these crappy quizzes spread, but here’s a few bits and bobs to tide you over in the meantime:

First, the bloggage. The quiz was, in the first instance, submitted to:

http://www.b3ta.com/

http://www.ultimateinsult.net/

uk.media.tv.misc

alt.tv.mash

From here, it spread to:

http://www.geekmystique.co.uk/geeklog/

http://www.hoopee.com/myhoopee/

http://www.rymdimperiet.com/

http://rankfish.tripod.com/

http://phuck.blogspot.com/

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/raasme/blog/blogger.htm

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/cflynn/about.htm

http://www.3bruces.com/

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, comes a surprise inclusion in the Yahoo! directory. Without a submission. After two days of activity. Result!

More later…

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Date
20020228

Time
09:22
A great snippet from the popbitch board. Fun on soooo many levels:

Just been talking to the guy who manages the new dancer boy in hearsay

“was it rigged?” I asked. “‘Course it fucking was” he replied, “the contract was signed 3 weeks before the audition shambles took place”

He also went out with ‘Connie2 the AOL girl. When asked why they split up, “Cause she’s a fucking muppet, and a right bunny boiler with it”

Click here to see the message as hosted at popbitch.

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Date
20020228

Time
10:43
Ooh, I love this one:

Who was Playmate Of The Month when you were born?

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Date
20020228

Time
13:58
!tihs fo daol a tahW

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Date
20020228

Time
16:52
I haven’t seen a headline this cool since the orbiting space lasers:

Giant Squid Babies Captured!

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Date
20020228

Time
16:53
A new sport for the Winter Olympics – Snow Peeing!

(Cheers to the 3bruces for the link.)