Ah, how true
Today's xkcd strip, Python, gets it right once again: Incidentally (he says), I met xkcd, a.k.a. Randall Munroe, when I was in the States. He's a nice bloke.
Word invention
Your word for today: Mumblefuck (MUM-bul-fuck), n.:That which happens between sleep-fuddled lovers on a Sunday morning. Invented1, in a roundabout sort of way, by your humble author and his friends. Use it at your pleasure. Verb forms are also acceptable. I have lots of work to do tonight and absolutely no inclination to do any [...]
One for the cricket fans
I had another post but, as Sam Gamgee might say, it got et. So instead, I leave you with this, courtesy of King Cricket: Sachin square-cuts Nasser
What?
Woman jailed for testicle attack: She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That’s yours."
Gotta love New Scientist. And geeks, for that matter
Today's New Scientist tells me that if you try to use Google Maps to find directions from anywhere in North America to London, you invariably get directed to swim across the Atlantic via Boston. from:New York City to: London gives the following snippet: 21. Merge onto Atlantic Ave (0.8 mi)22. Turn right at Central St [...]
Time to Offend
Easter: Nerd Prom for the religious. (It looks like something from Life of Brian, I think).
The countdown to judgement starts now
Like you weren’t thinking it already: BBC NEWS: British Skynet satellite launched
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Jesus tomb found, says film-maker
Nah, this isn’t going to cause any trouble, is it? Jesus had a son named Judah and was buried alongside Mary Magdalene, according to a new documentary by Hollywood film director James Cameron.
Second coming is a Komodo Dragon
From BBC News: ‘Virgin births’ for giant lizards (via Another Chance to See) Kevin Buley, a curator at Chester Zoo and a co-author on the paper, said: "Flora laid her eggs at the end of May and, given the incubation period of between seven and nine months, it is possible they could hatch around Christmas [...]
Flying Spaghetti Monster sighted in Germany
Via Wired (Link). (Click here to watch it if you can’t view the embedded version). In other news, WordPress’s buit in editor sucks when it comes to embedded content. Just sayin’.
the Right Was Right
Now that Shrubby‘s cronies are no longer in control of Congress, certain enterprising people of the lefty-American variety have come up with an interesting manifesto for the Democrats, showing the right-wingers just how right they were. My favourite items from The Right Was Right (via BoingBoing): 18. God to be mocked roundly Outlaw all firearms: [...]
Priceless
This has made my day: Condom mailshot raises hell (Stuff.co.nz) Hell Pizza has outraged family groups and morals campaigners by delivering innuendo-laden condom packets to letterboxes. The controversial fast-food chain is promoting its meat-lovers’ pizza – named "Lust" – with a mail drop of 170,000 branded condoms. That there’s a company called Hell Pizza pleases [...]
Courtesy of Stefan Walters*
Sound advice: * Didn’t know if you’d want linking to, Stef, so I didn’t. Don’t know that you’ll see this, either, but such is life…
Here, try the penis hotpot
The glue seems to be thinning out now, thanks to many, many cups of tea, a couple of naps and a trip to the cinema tonight to see Children of Men (which was, by the way, excellent, and I recommend it heartily… Just don’t expect to come out of it happy). And now, because tradition, [...]
Have a goat
I started writing a post last night about how I somehow forgot that liked to write for several years between leaving school and leaving uni, but it turned out to be very long and incredibly fatuous, so I decided to give you a news story instead: BBC NEWS: ‘Goat-free roads made me speed’ A Swiss [...]
My favourite few seconds of cricket this year
Inzamam ul-Haq, hit wicket, b. MS Panesar Via Youtube
Ubuntu for Christians
You will, I’m sure, be aware that I’m a big fan of Ubuntu Linux. It’s replaced Windows on all my machines and, gaming aside (which I don’t do much of anyway) is, for me at least, an infinitely better operating system than Microsoft’s offering. One of the great things about Open Source Software is that [...]
The World is Very Strange
From the department of Things You Hoped You’d Never Need: Colonic irrigation enema kit +500g Therapy Blend Coffee "This is not the kind of coffee that you will be able to enjoy with your after dinner mints or your morning croissant, that’s because the coffee doesn’t taste very nice, after all it has not been [...]
What did you expect?
JK Rowling ‘deluged’ with paper Harry Potter fans have sent JK Rowling reams of paper, after the author complained of a notepad shortage near her home in Edinburgh. You can’t tell me that she didn’t know, when she wrote that she was short of paper, that her army of devoted zombie maniacs fans – not [...]
Most People Stop at Page 3
And not just for the boobs, according to the BBC: Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results, says a US study. At most, people will go through three pages of results before giving up… Good thing, then, that if people were inclined [...]
Location, location, location
From the department of ‘things that we didn’t really have to be told about because we aren’t cretins’, the following news: BBC NEWS: First-time buyers ‘at record low’ The number of first-time home buyers across the UK is at a 25-year low, according to research This should come as a surprise only to those who [...]
A Wee Dram for Rabbie
It’s Burns Night tonight. Being not in the least bit descended from a Scot of any description I thought that I’d have a traditional Scottish meal of chicken, noodles and blackbean sauce before retiring to the office to do some work. Before bedtime, I shall pour myself a wee dram of scotch and drink to [...]
We will sue you for breach of contract
The Times: Woman awarded compensation after the hitman that she paid for failed to kill her Reeves banked the money and told Mrs Ryder that she would be killed in a drive-by shooting on June 11, 2003. She wasn’t; Reeves telephoned her to cancel the arrangement, saying that he had had to kill the hitman [...]
The Zeitgeist
Once again I find myself more than slightly disturbed by how people are finding me when they come from search engines. The top ten search results, for example: 38.10%: bloods 14.29%: hobbits sex 9.52%: gaiman 9.52%: the bloods 4.76%: age will not weary them nor the years condemn 4.76%: graham binns 4.76%: l!berata 4.76%: nuttall [...]
