My PC was quite noisy, so when it came time to upgrade, I made sure I got a quiet case. And, lo, the PC was a lot quieter. It was, for instance, no longer possible to hear the thing when the door of the room was closed ( Read more... )

"4th man is charged in failed London and Glasgow bombings"

Wow, this keeps getting deeper and deeper. First Jon Pertwee's implicated, now Sir Anthony Blunt.

Riches and wealth, they're not all they're cracked up to be. I mean, I got this sad tale in my email just this afternoon:

">From Doris Matins
Abidjan, Ivory Coast

My Dear one,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from the Ivoirian chamber of commerce. I prayed over it ( Read more... )

I just saw the Sky News headline "Third Doctor Charged Over Terror Plot" and thought "Isn't Jon Pertwee dead?"

Pr0n spam continues unabated. In point of fact, much of it seems to be escort spam, which pleases me in some fashion - no passive consumer of pr0n, I! They've clearly got me down as a man of action ( Read more... )

I've just started to get an exciting new series of pr0n spam of late. The mails consist of an embedded image advertising the pr0n in question, and some text, which is an extract from The Lord Of The Rings. I can only assume that this is some new genius concept in filter evasion which suggests that the heavy pr0n user is also a Lord Of The Rings ( Read more... )

Behold: a Seamus Emulator.

I see that there's an inquest into Saddam's execution, because they were jeering at him during the thing ( Read more... )

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Every year, at this time of year, the evil masters of Barbie release a DVD starring Barbie as some princess or other. Not stop-motion video with dolls, alas, but bargain-basement "everything's soooo shiny" CGI. Released simultaneously with this DVD will be a special edition Barbie doll dressed in the DVD's costume, and quite possibly princess ( Read more... )