31 Jan 2003, 9:06pm
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Employee of the Month

Bored, at home, on a Friday night, burning cds & downloading stuff..

So I did a Google Image Search for “Employee of the Month” (don’t ask why – it was just a random phrase) which lead me to discover Mavis Glutch & Gretchen Smunkley. I kid you not.

31 Jan 2003, 7:06pm
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Bush Goes Ape

Finally, we have proof of the missing link – it’s George Bush himself!

31 Jan 2003, 6:55pm
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chunkylover53

Thousands of Simpsons fans sent an email to Homer Simpson after his Net

address appeared in a recent cartoon – and recieved a reply from the man

himself. In the episode, Homer gave his email address to a private detective as Chunkylover53@aol.com. Fans sending mail to the address have been getting replies from Homer (actually Mat Selman, one of the show’s writers).

Here’s an example response;

From: Chunkylover53@aol.com

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:04:04 EST

Subject: Re: hrm

To: wolverine

X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138

Dear Nerd,

I didn’t even know the internet was on computers these days, let alone some kind of electric mail dealie. Please send all future letters (and beer) to:

642 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield USA then a zip code.

Praise Jebus!

– Homer Simpson

(thanks for this one Steve)

31 Jan 2003, 4:58pm
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Spybot – Search & Destroy

Nice Ad-aware-style spyware buster called Spybot – Search & Destroy – worked well on my machine & didn’t break anything. It’s worth running a program like this every so often – even if you don’t delete the cookies & programs, you’ll at least be aware of what is on your machine.

31 Jan 2003, 2:55pm
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Rubbish Monkey

Anyone who knows me should be well aware of my love of all things monkey-like (& you’re probably all slightly disturbed by it too) – I’ve found someone else more obsessed with monkeys, in particular drawings of rubbish monkeys.

31 Jan 2003, 2:35pm
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Ugly Midis

Especially for BigOl, here’s a site with some of the worst midi files I’ve ever heard. They really are bad.

31 Jan 2003, 2:22pm
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31 Jan 2003, 2:19pm
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London Riot Re-enactment Society

Amusing idea for all you would-be anachists – the London Riot Re-enactment Society. It makes history fun.

31 Jan 2003, 1:53pm
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Naked eBay guy returns

Remember naked eBay guy who was selling a kettleand forgot that it has a reflective surface? Well, he’s back & this time he’s selling a tv. You might have to look more closely this time though.

31 Jan 2003, 12:15pm
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Geese clothes

Clothes for geese – for all seasons, holidays and occasions.

31 Jan 2003, 11:33am
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Bedroom Adventure Gear

‘Bedroom Adventure Gear’ sounds like the kind of specialist gear you’d need to enter a typical students’ room to wade through the discarded condoms, overflowing ashtrays and piles of dirty laundry. The reality is almost as unsavoury as it refers to the Liberator® Shapes Bedroom Adventure Gear or to you and me – a couple of lumps of expensive foam in a cheap cover that they hope you’ll shag yer missus on.(contains some NSFW images)

31 Jan 2003, 10:11am
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Justice?

This story came to me via the popbitch newlsetter which is normally funny and irreverant but the story of Chad Wegkamp‘s attempts at bank robbery in order to get enough money for an operation on his scrotum is heart-rending and highlights some obvious flaws in the American justice system. Most shocking is the failure to take extraneous circumstances into account & the “I don’t make the rules…” attitude of the Chief Prosecutor.

Added to all that, the guy tried to cut open his own scrotum! Ouch.

30 Jan 2003, 5:25pm
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Soldiers Banking On War

Servicemen in the USA have been making more than the usual amounts of deposits at the bank recently. Not the kind of deposits that you or I would expect though.

30 Jan 2003, 5:17pm
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Bush in Nigerian spam scandal

George ‘Dubya’ ‘Bubby’ Bush Jr has inspired a superb spam email based on the Nigerian scam spam (surely by now, you’ll have all received one of these in your inbox – I got 5 last week!).

30 Jan 2003, 4:30pm
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Possum Fur Nipple Warmers

Possum Fur Nipple Warmers – They’re furry, fun & functional.

(& wierd)

30 Jan 2003, 2:09pm
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Roomba Hoover

Sod your Dyson – I want a roomba – look at it action. It’s functional & looks like an R2D2 reject.

30 Jan 2003, 2:06pm
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Human Piste

Or:

Don’t even eat the white snow!

30 Jan 2003, 12:28am
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Mirror, mirror…

Just in case I get too many visitors to this site, I’ve got me a .”mirror site. Get your own mirror from here (unbelievably, the rest of that site seems to be a russian mail order bride site!)

30 Jan 2003, 12:15am
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Think the RIAA are bad?

If you think the RIAA (Recording Industry ASS of America) are bad then just be thankful that you don’t live in Finland!

30 Jan 2003, 12:11am
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Ha-Ha!

Microsoft were caught out this weekend by the Slammer SQL attack after they failed to install their own patch!

And they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity – their latest marketing scheme is called “Trustworthy Computing”.

Hmmmm.

30 Jan 2003, 12:04am
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Busta’s Backstage Pass

1) Moet champagne.

2) A bucket of KFC.

3) Rough Rider Ribbed condoms.

It must be Busta Rhymes’ backstage rider.

30 Jan 2003, 12:00am
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Wanna buy a streamlined car?

Bit of a bugger for going round corners but it’s a record-breaker anyway. It’s cheap on petrol too, all you need is 6,120 C-cell rechargeable batteries & a portable power supply to charge them all up.

29 Jan 2003, 11:26pm
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Personal Robot System

I love this robot from Thinkgeek – it’s pointless but still cool. Best thing is that you can program it so that it recognises your cd covers, all you have to do is wave a cd cover at it’s camera and it will start playing the cd.

Shame it’s not telepathic though.

29 Jan 2003, 6:43pm
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The Skyscraper Page

I’m not sure what use SkyscraperPage.com is but some of the guys at work think it’s excellent – I’m merely passing on their recommendation. If anyone actually has a use for it, please let me know.

29 Jan 2003, 6:37pm
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Elite Shipyard

Remember the old BBC/Archimedes game Elite (or should that be 1337now?). Some people remember it far too well. This guy has built a shipyard for all the old space craft in the game – it settled an arguement in our office about whether all the different versions of Elite used the same ships. (yeah, I know but what do you expect when there are about 20 programmers here!)

29 Jan 2003, 6:34pm
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Masturbate for Peace

Don’t smitten, Kill a kitten.

Masturbate for Peace – : Using self-loving to end war.

erm, ok…(be right back…)

29 Jan 2003, 6:17pm
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Potato Bazooka!

Those pesky kids are at it again. I remember that we used to have fun with spud guns when I was a kid, but we didn’t cause anything like the trouble these kids are with their potato guns. A quick search shows that people are serious about their vegetable weaponry these days!

29 Jan 2003, 10:52am
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Search B4stard

The rudest, most foul-mouthed search engine in the world has to be Search B4stard . Guess what? It’s NSFW but it is amsuing.

28 Jan 2003, 4:37pm
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Fetus Soap

Fetus soap on a rope – It’s like the son you never had. Perfect gift for the person who has everythign (except a fetus).

Anyone tell me what the difference is between a fetus & a foetus? Is it just the usual American vs British (proper) spelling?

28 Jan 2003, 4:35pm
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Ask Ozzy

Got a burning need to ask Ozzy a question? He is, after all, the fountain of all knowledge (maybe). Well, why not Ask Ozzy – you’re sure to get a decent answer & it’s better than a magic 8-ball.

 
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