Bifurcated Rivets
Eclectica for epopts

Volume 54

10 May 2004

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22:51:10

Jazz Folio (via Oink)

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22:49:10

Happy Fun Song (via Oink) Arigato, Mister Robato indeed

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22:44:10

Room

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22:20:10

Ooops

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21:48:10

RIP Barney Kessel

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18:23:10

Bizarre "days" (via Will) I note that the 27th of May has no day associated with it. Maybe it should be International no day day or something.

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13:58:10

Found photos - I never find photos. Who drops photos?

9 May 2004

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21:47:09

Bodytag - I have no idea either.

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21:41:09

My Urban Dig

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21:29:09

Concept Art

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16:07:09

Sex and the Umma Prayer is better than sleep? Hmm, I think not when extended periods are involved!

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13:23:09

Hmm, some entries have gone missing. I wonder why.

8 May 2004

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22:35:08

Good ad

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22:24:08

Atom ship

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21:13:08

Stephen Newton's weblog - he wangled a mention of the URL into a letter in the Guardian Weekend today, which is nice.

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20:43:08

This is very funny but not for the prudes amongst you.

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19:22:08

Banglapedia

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16:55:08

Cinespia

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08:40:08

Ridiculously complicated flash intro but I'll have a D70 if you're handing them out.

7 May 2004

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16:25:07

Big Wine Bottles

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09:01:07

Lovely - bit big but still a great concept

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08:46:07

Hey Hey 16K - none of this has any resonance for me since I was using "proper" computers at that time....

6 May 2004

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22:44:06

Hentai dictionary - probably not for the faint of heart.

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22:37:06

Big Boy Pete

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22:14:06

The 7th Fire - bad poetry and other bollocks alert! Allen Aslan heart indeed - I bet his parents were hippies.

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16:42:06

Blast and damn, I missed this weblog's 5th birthday which was on April the 30th! And nobody else noticed either. This ought to be an excuse to rerun lots of old links, but it's just as easy to go and browse through the earlier editions yourself. Astoundingly, all the links for the first day still work apart from one (to lileks), which is still around but has just moved.

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12:07:06

May pre house the seamy side volitation!!! (just in case you didn't explore the previous site properly....)

5 May 2004

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21:09:05

Banana Guard

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20:27:05

Morningwood Huh? Or maybe I should say "ah, ah, yessssss, huh?" (probably NSFW)

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20:26:05

Exit Mundi

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18:58:05

UK Roads Portal

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13:00:05

Oh shit

4 May 2004

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23:14:04

Why on earth would someone build a camera obscura into their roof? Let's face it, they are not exactly common and I bet the optics cost a bomb.

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23:10:04

The Big Pull - another TV series from the '60s that nobody but me remembers. I was utterly terrified by this and was extremely reluctant to go upstairs alone after watching it. All I remember is the character Anderson who never spoke and never blinked. *shudder*

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23:06:04

Oh stupid me, I didn't read down the page on the original link about "Quick before They Catch Us" - yes, there was a camera obscura in her attic room. So that settles it, and, yes, that is the theme tune. What a shame it's lost - though it was probably complete rubbish.

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22:57:04

Track 1 on this CD may well be the Quick Before They Catch Us theme. It sounds vaguely familiar, but, again, it sounds like a lot of '60s songs.

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21:38:04

Ogöplex - be honest, have any of you ever heard anyone use the term "the ropes"? I suspect the entirely bogus o with an umlaut and the reference to the European underground are an attempt to make this product sound sophisticated.

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21:34:04

The Flybar

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21:29:04

There is a billboard ad for the Discovery Channel which has just gone up on my route to work. It says "Real Bikes, Real Fights, Real Men-Hugs" - what on earth is that about?

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21:24:04

Photoshop skills required - OK, I thought they were funny.

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16:55:04

The Jøtul Wood Gallery (Stoves)

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16:51:04

Ah ha, The television programme I am trying to dredge up may be "Quick before they catch us". The description of the first story line suggests to me that they may have built a camera obscura which, apart from the theme tune, is the only thing that I remember about it. The actors do look familiar, but then they look like every British actor in the'60s! Hmmm, it is listed at TV Cream (go to PQ and scroll down), where the theme tune is clearly not "catch us if you can", but I can see why I might be confused about this, since they are nearly contemporary songs. I think this might definitely be the one. Of course it has been wiped so we'll never know will we? I think that the line that it was based on a book by Mark Timlin has to be wrong since the Mark Timlin book of the same name appears to be published in 2000 and he looks way too young to have been writing in 1966. But I suppsoe it may be a reprint and an old photograph.

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14:38:04

Manual Power

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12:28:04

Don't miss the real band names at metal sludge

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12:26:04

Metal Sludge

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11:48:04

Canadian Ice

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09:03:04

Gum Blondes (via Limited Ed.)

3 May 2004

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21:51:03

Isn't the good old IntarWeb great? I decided I needed to learn how to play Willin' and there it is.

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21:07:03

I'm trying to find out about a television programme from the sixties that I vaguely remember - its theme tune was "Catch us if you can" and was about some people who lived in a camera obscura. I thought it was called after the song but TV Cream has no entry under that name. (Mind you TV Cream has no entry for the Big Pull which is another series I remember from my childhood and I know that one existed)

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20:45:03

Midnight Eye - Japanese film

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20:34:03

Oh, good grief, what nonsense. Mind, they don't do a very good job of persuading me why the law shouldn't apply!

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20:28:03

Poem Hunter

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20:20:03

Mozart Rhythm and Romance (via Apothecary's Drawer) Clever stuff indeed.

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20:08:03

You can use http://rivets.notlong.com to get here now if you want to type a small number of characters fewer than the full thing (via Red Ferret)

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19:57:03

Planted out some calabrese and some PSB that we were given today. I am running out of space and I wanted to get in some broad beans, spinach, leeks and maybe some dwarf french beans. We usually have some runner beans in too, which we grow because they look nice - we don' actually eat them. I may have to unplant some onions. *sigh* And of course this isn't including lettuces and radishes and maybe a couple of courgettes.

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19:54:03

The cherry blossom at the top of our street was at its peak today. If we were in Tokyo there would be hundreds of people sitting just looking at it it's so good. As it is there is just a kebab van with no customers.

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19:48:03

Freshness Magazine (Via Limited Ed.)

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19:47:03

Limited Ed. Magazine (See I do read the comments)

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19:36:03

Body Piercing Glossary - so now you can find out what all those terms mean that you were too embarassed to ask about. Assuming you can make sense of the definitions of course, which is not that easy.

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19:19:03

Dubbin

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09:29:03

Who is that with Jerremy? I hope ad has pre-booked Jeremy sessions with a shrink for when he is older.

2 May 2004

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21:48:02

Killastration

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21:46:02

Conservitivering

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21:40:02

Tired of peeling eggs? What? Who peels enough eggs to get tired of it?

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21:38:02

I have never understood why anyone would want to buy stuff like this.

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21:37:02

Plane Crash Info

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21:35:02

Nicosphere 3000

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21:34:02

Lucid Dreaming

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21:08:02

In other news I planted lots of shallots, garlic and onions.

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21:08:02

Got up this morning to go for a bike ride for the first time in ages. Pumped up my back tyre and found that had perished so had to buy new one. *sigh* Bought some semi-slicks which should be easier to ride than the huge chunky ones I had on before. I fought the rear tyre on and found that I had screwed up the direction of rotation so had take it off again.

1 May 2004

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23:08:01

Made-in-strator

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23:08:01

Antigirl

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19:57:01

Arcbuster - this was kind of spammed in my direction and I have no idea what it is about.

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08:16:01

I just got a message about my Amazon.com referral fees - these are miniscule and in fact I have not yet accumulated enough to actually get them paid to me. The truely weird thing is that the only referral item bought using my code last quarter was a clear blue easy fertility monitor.

30 Apr 2004

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22:50:30

Take a ridiculous idea for a "sport" and add sexist nonsense. Great. I still haven't got over hearing that Wpmen's Beach Volleyball rules specify the maximum permissible size for the player's costume.

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22:29:30

Dang, the URL for Loretta Lynn's Kitchen and Gifts doesn't work. It might for you though.

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22:24:30

Loretta Lynn's Gooey Cake Recipe - good grief.

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15:54:30

This solved the pod problem.

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15:51:30

The Sharpeworld Scopitone of the Week appears to feature Ginger Spice and a young Mick McManus (a wrestler from the 60s in the UK). BTW it's called Sado-Maso and is in French

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07:25:30

Cat Nappies

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07:23:30

You touch my tralala I got this from Popbitch so you you know that means that it is pretty stupid and probably NSFW....

29 Apr 2004

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23:34:29

Nippon Graphica is a personal online exhibit of photographs, mainly in black and white.

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23:26:29

Chariotaku

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23:02:29

yeti 4

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22:44:29

The Golden RPG - a story that seems to have gone very quiet.

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22:02:29

The Accordio-organ??????? (And I have actually wished I could bend wood....)

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20:51:29

Why can you always put something more in a chest freezer, no matter how full it is?

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20:50:29

Why do Belgians make chocolates shaped like shellfish?

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20:17:29

Unmissable - do I want to go Advanced Spanking with Uncle Larry or possibly Solo Tatntra Lite - Preparing for Kundalini. So much to pick from!

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17:03:29

I like this

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16:40:29

Miss Monster

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16:38:29

Looper's Delight (Not sure they have the apostrophe in the right place - surely there is more than one looper involved?)

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16:16:29

LanguageHat

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16:15:29

Damn, the new iPod updater won't see my pod, so iTunes 4.5 won't see it either. *sigh*

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09:49:29

Damn it, there is a photograph of Steamhammer playing in Edinburgh in 1971. How the hell did not know about that then?

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09:45:29

Junior's Wailing - great stuff! Classic British blues band sound. I wished I'd seen them live, I can imagine exactly what it would have been like. *sigh*

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09:42:29

Gosh, there is a whole Steamhammer site! That is obsessive - almost nobody has heard of them.

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09:40:29

Steamhammer - I have one of their LPs and it's great.

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08:51:29

Huh? (via Snarky Malarkey)

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08:40:29

I just read something that mentioned IMing, I couldn't for the life of me work out what an i-Ming was.

28 Apr 2004

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23:28:28

mdeath - I have to assume there is something called mlife or else this makes no sense at all (which on the good old intraweb may also be the case)

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23:24:28

Wankers Corner - I wonder if they have a Dorking branch?

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23:19:28

I wonder why he didn't do a SkyBook

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22:59:28

Frog Literature

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22:39:28

Beer

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21:57:28

Solar Cooking (via Red Ferret) - great technology

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21:48:28

I think I shall, as Tamerlane did, start calling myelf Lord of the Fortunate Conjuction.

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21:09:28

Ah, telendro, telendro, telendro, telendro ^_^

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21:07:28

The Rasterbator

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20:37:28

RIP Thom Gunn, Hubert Selby Jr. and Estée Lauder

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20:00:28

Freedom Writer

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19:28:28

Ring ring ring banana phone - lovely

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19:23:28

e-admit

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16:19:28

"Cellphone when my old car dies, The Internet to show me where, GPS to get me there, Everywhere there's satellites, but still I life a simple life" - great line from "The Simple Life" as performed by Ricky Skaggs. Don't know who wrote it, good song apart from some coy religiosity in it.

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14:21:28

Khaaan

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13:18:28

Neat

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12:43:28

Sniggle (via Red Ferret)

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09:31:28

New Weebl and bob (Another weak one though)

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09:04:28

Want to sell something black? Try Goth Auctions

27 Apr 2004

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23:19:27

Grab A Book Game

Instructions:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

"No, all that we know and all that we need to know is that truth is asolute, definite, unequivocal and as sure as a waterfront."
(via Gaijinworld)

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22:41:27

Hotel - flash by Han Hoogerbruge, so you know what to expect!

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12:38:27

Hah, I hadn't heard the Lemonheads' version of Amazing Grace before. (It's on Hate Your Friends) and that went straight into Tito Puenete with Oye Como Va! and it sounded great.

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10:20:27

I am entirely speechless at the inanity of this. (Also via Sharpeworld) But if anyone wants to hire me then I am available. (Oh, and when I am a music consultant/DJ/conman^h^h^h^h^h^h I only use my middle name : Forsyth)

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09:43:27

I think it's something to do with the cranning that makes Iggy and Squiggy so appealing. If you catch my drift. Also the swingy New England style accompaniment rather than a stodgy Irish oompah.

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09:38:27

I am repeat playing a fantastic pipe track by Jerry O'Sullivan from an album called the Gift. It's a set of tunes finishing with a stonking reel called Iggy and Squiggy - one of those tunes that lifts the spirit, makes you smile and want to dance.

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08:40:27

The Peeps Challenge - of course, I have absolutely no idea what peeps actually are. Some strange US -only sweet I presume. Like Candy Corn (bleurch)

26 Apr 2004

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21:45:26

I would have expected that the HHGTTG would have been updated rather more recently than this. (see bottom of page and reference to Netscape 2.0)

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21:42:26

Buried Jets

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21:14:26

Queer Joe's Knitting weblog (No, I won't use the bl*g word - it's nasty)

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20:37:26

Anyone used a Zielonka?

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19:38:26

Derelict London

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16:43:26

Weird rain today and thunder and lightning, sky is a funny colour

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14:57:26

As requested, you can see the animated brain. It's 5M though - you have been warned. (I might to do quicktime version which ought to be smaller)

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09:56:26

A world first! Get inside the head of a weblogger!

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09:20:26

Supermodel Personals - I don't understand either.

25 Apr 2004

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22:42:25

Huh? - must be based round a TV sketch but I don't get it. I could see myself laughing at someone doing exactly the same with UK placenames though. I wonder if there is some significance to the accents?

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21:24:25

Praise the lord

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13:10:25

Coffin Photos - note the attempt to bring Clinton into this fiasco

24 Apr 2004

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23:22:24

My Little Eskimo

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23:20:24

Acte 3

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23:13:24

Chanok

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17:46:24

This is good (big quicktime file)

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17:30:24

In town today, two guys busking on vibraphones - fantastic.

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08:32:24

Hmm, breakfast in the backyard in the sun.

23 Apr 2004

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22:57:23

IFOCE Records - 17.7 pounds of cow brains?

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22:39:23

1000 things - but no samples!

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22:36:23

Head-shock - odd, and very strong, in fact my throat is on fire as I type...

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22:07:23

Ahhh, the Procrealligence site and it lives up to expectations - 100% flash, and so poorly designed that they have to put instructions in big letters to tell people how to navigate. That's procrealligence in action!

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21:27:23

Blue Limonade

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21:25:23

Animatorium Rex

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18:01:23

Adriana Bertini - condom artist. Only works in Internet Explorer and took over my screen, but it's interesting.

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13:53:23

Which reminds me of an advert I saw on television in Kazakhstan for a company renaming itself as procrealligence which was supposed to be a combination of proactivity, creativity and intelligence. Sounds more like birth control to me. (all the domain names are taken but all point to a hosting company)

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13:52:23

Would you employ this company? Adding together the twee name, the goth styling and the all flash interface I certainly wouldn't.

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10:12:23

NSA Forms

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09:23:23

Porn or Pony - an old one but still good.

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08:39:23

Center Guy

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08:38:23

Japanese Design? From the photos it appears to be hideous!

22 Apr 2004

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23:39:22

Wonderful

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16:02:22

Xmas menu

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16:00:22

Alien Song

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12:10:22

Huh? That is definitely weird.

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12:09:22

The Rubber Boy (careful with that URL, some variants are not office safe...)

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12:03:22

There is a thread on slashdot about a replica of the "Back to the Future" car and someone has made the comment "Imagine that: stepping out of that car in your brand spanking new spandex Tron suit. The girls would be over you like bees on honey...!" I actually did LOL.

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11:57:22

Hippo and Mouse

21 Apr 2004

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22:42:21

The breedster egg is gone - but let me know if you are interested in case I breed again....

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22:26:21

Dust bowl photos (and other stuff too)

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21:21:21

I got 9 out of 10 on the Guardian Art or Porn test

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14:48:21

Well, I have one egg on Breedster so can invite one person to join. Anyone interested? Mail me.

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11:14:21

Chimpeach

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10:35:21

Blind Blake and Charlie Spand, Hastings Street - mmm, mmm, mmmmmm!

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09:13:21

Good grief

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08:37:21

Everybuddy - of course, I never change my IM name.

20 Apr 2004

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22:45:20

Ice, Ice, baby

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22:44:20

Hello Passion

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17:18:20

Gazelleboy tunes

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10:26:20

Cribs - great (via Daily Jive)

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10:08:20

2352 entries in my spam mail folder when I got back.

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09:55:20

Strindberg and Helium - strange flash

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09:37:20

New (well not anymore) weebl and bob

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09:28:20

Relaxation - good resource (via Red Ferret)

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08:55:20

Al Lowe's Humor Site - humour is of course a personal thing, but I hadn't seen this before and that is funny

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08:52:20

Origami Maths, more Origami maths

19 Apr 2004

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23:01:19

We'll all have to pull our socks up now that Sharpeworld is back

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22:52:19

Weird

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22:02:19

We were staying just above here - good apartment/hotel, though not recommended if you have teenagers as there is not a lot for them to do (at least at Easter time anyway)

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21:17:19

Pharoah's Pump

10 Apr 2004

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09:01:10

John Ashcroft porn (We're not away yet...)

9 Apr 2004

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19:33:09

I'm off to Portugal for a week so once again updates will be none to sporadic: if the place we're staying has cheap net access there might be some, if it doesn't there'll be none. Quite simple really.

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19:28:09

Easter Bunny Rap

8 Apr 2004

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16:53:08

Sloganator flash

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15:46:08

Apocalipsis

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14:48:08

Big Ass Fans - perfectly safe for work too.

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09:24:08

Engadget - more stuff I can't afford. The K700 phone looks nice.

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08:41:08

Those last two via Red Ferret Journal which just gets better and better - definitely the best gadget log around, especially since Gizmodo now has all those ads and has dropped serious descriptions of things.

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08:38:08

Answerbag - why is this site so slow?

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08:36:08

Sunnysite - get rid of that geek tan

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07:58:08

Shock news - Hanami is just an excuse to get drunk! (Also note the strange ideas that the interviewees have about foreigners - I don't know anyone who thinks hanami is weird : everyone likes cherry blossom! And parties....)

7 Apr 2004

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22:40:07

They can do fancy french food but don't know how to use apostrophes.....

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21:25:07

Kaeru

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21:10:07

Wooden Mice

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21:06:07

100 things about me webring (no not me, them)

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17:38:07

Anyone know how to configure the Multi-Plugin for Windows iTunes?

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16:44:07

Sienfield and Superman is everywhere too, but it is good. Pick "Watch Uniform"

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16:32:07

Wonderful! I bet this one will be all over the net toute suite!

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14:15:07

GOD TV - "Broadcasting from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth"

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14:12:07

Read the midnight ministries stuff about False Ministers - ranting madness. I keep reading Ministries as Mini-series.....

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14:06:07

Whoa, I just noticed that the Midnight Ministry (previous link) is in Aylesbury - where the rivets used to be made. That has to be deeply signifcant (or not)

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14:04:07

Yeah, right

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13:42:07

Snapletter

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12:48:07

Panhandle Country again, this time by Mike Aulridge. What a good tune.

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11:19:07

Lots of videos of japan (including the pink penis)

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10:00:07

Hmmmm

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09:19:07

Great records, terrible website - renders astonishingly badly in Camino

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08:31:07

Cool Hunting

6 Apr 2004

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23:03:06

Ugh, the search buttons look horrible in Camino

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23:02:06

There were no matches for matches but there are matches for matches now

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23:00:06

Bento Pictures

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22:25:06

Of course, Ricky Jay is the man for card throwing.

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22:24:06

Card Throwing - note that he describes himself as "Christian" yet has a section on the vulnerable parts of the body. I will never understand.

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20:36:06

Unique ID

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15:24:06

Iconsurf

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13:46:06

Songfacts

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13:41:06

More on the ear cleaner - your parents will love it note.

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13:27:06

Yes, I know it is looking a mess at the moment. I'm thinking about how to make it better.

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12:52:06

Not that Robert Rankin (read the reviews, and note that if you look at the next Robert Rankin to be published this book is being paired with it. Ooops)

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12:10:06

Grammar quiz - as you would expect, I am a Grammar God

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12:05:06

Panhandle Country played by Bluegrass 2001 - nice, have to listen to that one again.

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12:03:06

You'll have noticed the new search box at the top. If you enter part of a URL into it you'll find all the places where URLs containing that text were linked. (If there is only one, you get taken to the place where the link happened) Let me know if this is useful and how it can be changed to make it better.

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08:42:06

Vodafone Futures - complicated flash

5 Apr 2004

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14:03:05

Quicksilver - procrastinate faster

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13:53:05

Sushi Cake

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11:26:05

Oh, someone asked about the weather in Alamaty - it was really warm, much warmer than here (but it had been snowing the week before)

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11:25:05

Electric Ear Cleaner - I think I want one of these. I wonder how safe they are.

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11:21:05

Oral Disco

4 Apr 2004

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21:57:04

Introverster

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21:25:04

So, back from Almaty. Tasted fermented mare's milk and fermented camel's milk. Went to the Russian Baths and got beaten with bunches of oak leaves. Drank vodka. Had a meal in a yurt. Drank vodka. Went to the opera to see Tosca. Nice people. They like toasts (in vodka).

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21:22:04

Subtly Simpsons

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21:19:04

Poor weebl and bob - not featuring weebl or bob