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 for sale in Coles on Wednesday, January 3rd – at least two weeks earlier than last year.
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 was like a beetle on its back, with his arms and legs sprawled out and completely glued to the roof.
Fortunately the local fire service rescued him and he was unhurt but in need of a laundry service..
Mind you, I’m seriously impressed that someone of that age would be out doing DIY on their own roof! Good on ya!
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 talking about behaviour that is unbecoming of a diplomat
Mind you, it could have been much more serious for him..
Thanks to Rich for the link..
A training exercise for Swiss infantry turned into an accidental invasion of Lichtenstein, according to this BBC article:
A 171-strong Swiss company got two kilometres into its neighbour before realising the mistake and heading back. […] The company commander led his men in the wrong direction in bad weather but gave the immediate order to return when realising the error.
Oops.. 🙂
Today’s winner of the oddest spam subject competition is:
Fruitful Overflow Gods
The plumbing equivalent of animism ?
…that the GDB debugger has its own song ?
(Via)
Coffee is an essential, core enabler of online business.
(Inspired by Alec)
Todays winner is:
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The irony is that the spammer probably randomly grabbed it from a web page somewhere..
Todays winner is:
onrush corpulent scanner
New Scientist has a nice little article called “Just can’t get e-nough” about habitual problems some people get from using the Internet.
The web in particular has opened up a host of opportunities for overindulgence. Take Wikipedia. Updating the entries – something anyone can do – has become almost a way of life for some. There are more than 2400 “Wikipedians”, p 36 – you know where to look it up if you don’t know what it means – who have edited more than 4000 pages each (“see Confessions of a Wikipediholic”, below). “It’s clearly like crack for some people,” says Dan Cosley at Cornell University in New York, who has studied how websites such as Wikipedia foster a community. To committed Wikipedians, he says, the site is more than a useful information resource; it’s the embodiment of an ideology of free information for all.
Favourite terms – crackberry and cheesepodder (( someone who goes hunting for those cheesy old numbers for their iPod )) . 🙂