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5 most obviously drug-fuelled TV appearances
I cannot express how valuable this link is.
Get on it. Literally.
http://www.cracked.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=880
I am slowly realising how amaqzingly useful the net will be in tracking down all those moments we ( Read more... ) -
The Leftie Lexicon - One correct definition
Quite a bit of abuse is (rightly) being thrown at this guy at the moment for a set of definitions writtenm by him, which include daft ones like this:
Islamophobic - anyone who objects to having their transport blown up on the way to work.
Haha good one. Oh wait. Awful.
However, this one is true:
Diversity - creating a workforce based on how people ( Read more... ) -
Mandelbrot Fractal - Must see!
I love Fractals. Mostly because I'm too dim to understand them.
For example - how do you find a shape that you can create out out of billions of versions of itself? It's like chicken and egg. I'm sure there's an explanation. I just enjoy the thrill of not understanding it.
Via Pistolwimp, via the beloved Milkandcookies
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We will always remember
The day they took our hair products away.
When we are no longer allowed to carry anything on a flight anywhere, like cattle are not allowed to take grass on the cattle train - and one day we will find this above article in some small dark archive somewhere, and wonder why we didn't see it coming.
Yes - a failed plot takes away the same liberties as a ( Read more... ) -
Do Comics Hate Jews?
There seems to be an increasing trend, alas, amongst my favourite and otherwise more incisive and astute comedians, towards racism - specifically anti-semitic.
Doug Stanhope's Edinburgh show, whilst blazing, a great deal of it insightful, and a lot of it well beyond the edge of taste, featured a Mel Gibson bit. The ultimate point made, is that those ( Read more... ) -
SPART
All too rarely is creativity found in the most common corners of life. Most would agree that, of all places to find anything remotely engaging, SPAM is the last place you'd think of.
And so it is, that today, shortly after 2am, from some quiet lonely server in the depths of the internet, ixh@kitaabun.co.uk sent me the first piece of SPAM I have ever ( Read more... ) -
Crude but Brilliant - Real TV & Radio Double Entendres
Sorry, sources are so varied I'm not listing them All guaranteed real, some really quite subtle.
Michael Buerk watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle up to a male
astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UKeclipse coverage remarked:"They
seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's just come in
his shorts.
Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo ( Read more... ) -
Ever wanted to write on the surface of water?
This is crazy. A machine that allows you to print on water.
From Pruned, and this Japanese site.
This does unfortunately mean that those promises I wrote in the wind are next...
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Lawrence Lessig - Read Only vs Read/Write Cultures
Lawrence Lessig spoke at Wikimania recently, along with Brewster Kahle (of the Internet Archive - see the book Free Culture)
Lessig continues to discover old (true) stories that actually help us explain the very latest cultural shifts.
Consider the story Lessig tells here about John Philip Sousa
We may well be in the biggest content war ever - and as ( Read more... )
