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Federal Foreign Minister Andrews is not all there
Today's Crikey has an interesting little tid-bit buried in it.
It seems that Kevin Andrews doesn't appear to be able to get his head straight about what his department does....
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Sometimes Dilbert just sums it all up
I read this, and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Too bloody accurate though.
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Why won't this appliance boot!?!?
A coleague of mine as been having some troubles getting one of our demo appliances to boot...
Things were getting quite tense, as a major deal is totally dependant on the trial running seamlessly starting from Monday next week...
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Wow - Polygamy Juice & Polygamy vegetables!
(Thanks to Graydancer for the heads-up)
Some dude in Indonesia (restauranteur Puspo Waddoyo) had Polygamy Juice and Polygamy Vegetables on his restaurant menu.
(see here for the full Reuters article)
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Where the Wild Things Are meets Cthulhu
Where the Wild Things Are meets Cthulhu - Boing Boing
BoingBoing has some interesting stuff - today was a cross between Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are (or see wikipedia) and the Cthulhu mythos.
Link
(via Neatorama)
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Degrading media designation T-Shots for SecondLife
Thanks to Stilgherrian for posting this about "degrading media designations" for the germination of an idea.
Over the next few days, I will be making up a series of "Degrading media designation T-Shirts" for SecondLife.
Each one will have the appropriate designation on the front, and the name of the so-degraded author/pundit/commentator on the back.
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Rope Corsetry
There are times when you come across a piece of wonderful art and workmanship in entirely unexpected places.
This is one such example.
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ioDrive - High performance local storage
Wow! I thought I understood most of the options for high-performance storage.
This one just blew me away!
Check this for more information and a couple of videos.
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Merchandise - and other marketting silliness
lj-music: none - at work :-(
A _SHORT_ extract from a VERY good item on airline security
Thanks to Bruce Schneier for a link to this Blog entry.
The posting is long, well composed, well thought-out and highly effective at delivering it's point.
I thought I should extract just 2 paragraphs of the letter, to show you a little of what it is about....
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Merchandise - and other marketting silliness
Carabiner Keyrings!
Who and/or what decided that a carabiner would be a good thing to use as a keyring for IT merchandising?
I mean, IT merchandising goes, predominantly, to people who wear suits to work! Not jeans, pitons and climbing boots!
I have been thinking that this has been a wierd craze from the first time I saw carabiners being used in ( Read more... )