I almost forgot, but I heard about the following link yesterday. Regardless of one's opinion of Microsoft or their products, this has to be one of the most awful videos ever inflicted on anyone. (For background: MS are trying to persuade their customers to advertise the new operating system Windows 7 on their behalf.)

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If you are familiar with Welsh, you may have heard of the Welsh strict poetic system called cynghanedd (usually translated as "harmony"). It's v popular amongst the kids in the street, as you can imagine, and predictably there's a website hub where poets and aspiring poets congregate to discuss cynghanedd 'n' shit: Annedd y Cynganeddwyr. At the ( Read more... )

FACE meet PALM.

Is it dead in LJ-land today?

This is quite amusing: Firebox.com are offering a service that wraps gifts badly, so that it looks as though you did it yourself. And Clive James approves.

Unlikely as it may seem, I hadn't seen this before: The Lolcats Bible translation project

Brilliant.

Director Kevin Smith recorded at a Q&A session, talking at length about his involvement with a (binned) script for a Superman film. Hilarious. And makes you never want to work as a Hollywood screenwriter...

The new theme song for Quantum of Solace is released...sort of.

Hur hur

I have a distinct fear of slash fiction whenever it raises its head. Partly because I can't see what the appeal is, and partly because its authors seem to relish thinking up the most bizarre (and, let's face it, perverted) combinations available to them. But at least I can almost understand when writers use fictional characters and play around with ( Read more... )

Further excitement in the "Anglesey-based Jedi Church" story. I particularly like the judge who, on issuing an arrest warrant to a man who committed assault whilst dressed like Darth Vader, said that he hoped "the Force would soon be with him". Ahahahaha.

I should be doing work...

Recently dyddgu directed me to a wonderfully acerbic cite called Speak You're Branes, which essentially highlights the worst offenders on online "leave a comment" fora, particularly BBC Online's "Have your [probably racist] say" pages. Whoever runs the site then calls the culprit a "walrus minge" or something, which frankly never ceases to be amusing ( Read more... )