Saturday, January 19, 2008

At last, honest Web site excuses

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A South African provincial government Web site seems to have had a Webmaster with a sense of humor - and a fine awareness of the realities o...

Time for a few laughs

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to a Goon Show comedy moment. I have a particularly soft spot for British comedy, so I'm going to...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Are you interested in reading book manuscripts online?

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I've been having a discussion with a writers group of which I'm a member. I think it might be a very good way for a prospective auth...
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20 Clues To Mr. Right

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It seems that English ladies have a fairly demanding set of standards for what they want to see in a prospective mate . They've come up...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Texas Trouble

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I received the following by e-mail (hat-tip to Fred). A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell,...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The USAF Needs Ghostbusters???

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It's reported that a team of real-life ghostbusters is to visit the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to deal with a little proble...
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Doofus Of The Day #3

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I love it when dumb crooks do things like this . . . :-) A certain Mr. Derrick Kosch decided to commit an armed robbery in Kokomo, IN. He s...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Beware of Big Brother - at work and at home!

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This should make everyone who uses a computer, a cellphone or a similar personal device really, really angry. Microsoft has applied for a p...
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Racing car versus airliner - who wins?

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Today an interesting race took place in New Zealand . It was between an A1GP racing car and an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-200, each occupyin...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Would you like your eggs in 9mm. or .45?

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For those interested in a novel way to fry eggs, how about making them gun-shaped? Now to cut bacon into ammunition shapes . . . :-) (Hat-ti...
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Way To Go, Marines! Semper Fi!

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I can't tell you how pleased I am to read reports like this. It seems that the US Marine Corps, through a 'junior military reserve p...
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An historical treasure-trove is now online

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This is huge, friends. Huge. At least, if you're at all interested in the history of knowledge, how we've come to understand ours...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Two adventurers make it across the Tasman Sea - by kayak!

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Last year two adventurers in Australia, James Castrission and Justin Jones, decided to take their kayak for a paddle . . . a fourteen-hundre...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

Weekend Wings #2: Return Of The Airship?

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Airships and balloons have been with us for many centuries. Initially balloons were unpowered and at the mercy of the wind and weather. Bo...
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The Importance Of Being Armed

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There's an awful lot of nonsense said (by those who should know better) about how dangerous guns are, and how evil those 'gun-lovers...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

Harbin Festival

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During this month the Harbin International Ice And Snow Sculpture Festival is under way in northern China. It's one of the great festiv...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Clever advertisement

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I like it when companies do something original in the way of an advertisement. Here's one from a Dutch travel agency. (Hat-tip to Fligh...

Cheezburger does it again

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Many of you, I'm sure, are familiar with the 'Lolcat' phenomenon - pictures of cats and/or kittens speaking a strangely abbrevia...

The most important car in years?

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Although I've put a question-mark behind the title of this post, I think the just-announced Tata Motors 'Nano' car really is t...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The Latest On The First Data / Citi Merchant Services Scandal

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Friends, I've written about this in an earlier post (scroll down three posts if you don't want to click on the link). It now appear...
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