The Thoughts and Feelings of a Melbourne Person
Picking up on something that Alec wrote about flooding and now being not a good time to be in insurance, I always think that the Monster Raving Loony Party had the right idea in their 2001 UK election manifesto.
Under a Loony government any prospective home purchaser be issued with a full description of such dictionary [...]
Got to love the anti-spam Captcha on the sign up for the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service..
(Thanks Don)
Vodafone spammed me recently with an SMS offer of free gift, so I took them up on it and found out I could pick from a selection of the usual magazine subscriptions, discount coupons, etc, but the one that took my fancy was to have a couple of trees planted by a conservation group somewhere [...]
“Perl, in a Nutshell” sung by Pudge, thanks for the pointer Alec!
This is, er, cheesy.. but in a good way..
Since www.cheddarvision.tv debuted in December, the Web site offering a live broadcast of a round slab of English cheddar cheese slowly maturing has had more than 1.2 million hits.
There is also a YouTube time lapse film of it maturing over the last 3 months.
It [...]
Via Mark.
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
Don’t dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Tag five other people to do the same.
Here we go..
The mainboard connector provides a [...]
Chalk up another great Google April Fool..
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.
Google - turning the fear that the Internet is [...]
Our good friend Chris Borthwick has had himself a blog since 2004, helpfully entitled “A live toad every morning“, and catching up on which I came across this observation..
One effect of global warming is that the seasons are beginning earlier each year. As one sign of this, I saw a display of hot cross buns [...]
Another “oops” moment..
A 91 year old man in Magdeburg, Germany, was trying to fix his roof with bitumen when passers by started to get the wrong idea and thought he was going to jump. Unfortunately whilst they called the police he fell backwards onto the roof. The police said:
When we got there, he [...]
Err.. from a BBC News story..
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear. Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.
The Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson had a very, umm, diplomatic reaction..
We’re [...]
