< Sigh > What would I do without the fortean_news feed?

Priest dies after trying to show how Jesus walked on water

Scientology to unveil Super Powers

Fluorescent Green Rat Sperm

Correction: Hippo Didn't Swallow Dwarf

Now this is good, mp3's of the Internationale in 30 languages ( Read more... )

Today's wikipedia article...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs_and_communism

< Tries to imagine a bunch of little blue men singing The Internationale >

< Fails >

My pogo-stick like, zero-attention-span, mind saw some mention of the concept of irony. So, as I have this thing for instant intellectual gratification, I immediately read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony. I was about to start reading this Guardian article on the overuse and incorrect use of the word irony when my palm's mp3 player kicked onto a ( Read more... )

I was fine this morning. But I've been progressively feeling more and more ill during the day. The trouble is, bed and a hot water bottle is a cold six mile bike ride away.

I better get it over and done with, staying here and sleeping in my office would be worse, but only marginally, I think.

PS I'd no idea you could do this after having a boob ( Read more... )

Not much to to say except to report yesterday's surreal moment...

Randomly turning on the TV to see somebody I knew was a contestent on Mastermind. Specialised subject - The Life and Career of Bishop William Colenso.

Ok, before we begin, understand that I am not and never have been a furry. I know people who are, but I am not among their number. If anybody says "The lady doth protest too much," I'll hit them ( Read more... )

The local news reported that police have recovered an ATM skimmer. The device had an SD card so it could record the ATM card's magnetic stripe data and images of the keypad as people typed in their PIN's ( Read more... )

Are you a hard-core fan of the Deer Hunter? If so, then now you can reenact your favorite scene from the movie every morning whilst you dry your hair ( Read more... )

Has anybody noticed there seems to be a lot of five pound notes about? I mean, for a long while, shops never seemed to have any. Pay for something with a tenner and you got change in pound coins - "Yes, thank you for that pile of shrapnel, it will build up my muscles and people will hear me coming from 100m away because of the clanking." The odd ( Read more... )