Bifurcated Rivets
Eclectica for epopts

Volume 70

9 Feb 2006

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13:49:09

Cast Fetish - pretty well SFW. Pretty odd too.

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12:47:09

Gramalkin

8 Feb 2006

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21:04:08

Mavericks (via Information Junk)

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21:00:08

HSII

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09:18:08

Open Source joke book - I suppose there oought to be a quip I could use, but it eludes me. (Update: apparently the guy is a far-left liberal, so even though the jokes are not even remotely funny, he definitely needs to be supported)

7 Feb 2006

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22:13:07

Bit Torrent is one of those real misnomers isn't it? Bit trickle more like it.

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21:30:07

De-touch

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20:48:07

Oh good grief

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20:46:07

Ah, the web page for that nice lorry conversion (that's truck for westpondians) Thanks, Peter.

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20:42:07

Jesus pets (I really want to tag this with "but Satan goes all the way" or to put a comma after Jesus or something)

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13:44:07

Neat

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13:43:07

Odd

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12:20:07

Hah

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11:43:07

Hmmmm and also see this. If it is the book I think it is, it is pretentious, drivel. I suspect that most of us could produce an equivalent book in Japanese without a lot of effort, though possibly with a huge loss of self-esteem. It's precisely the sort of "experimental" writing that gets praised by certain people simply because it is experimental. As you will have gathered from the Amazon comments, Finnegans Wake it is not.

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09:59:07

Gary Entsminger - some nice tunes there in the music section (including one of the minor swings I linked to). Limehouse blues is particularly nice - another of my favourite tunes.

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09:52:07

Hmmm

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09:49:07

Lots of darwin fish variants I hadn't seen

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09:45:07

Superbowl Monday

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09:40:07

Superbowl ads - if you aren't already sick of them. It says a lot about the game that I have no idea who was playing this year (or who won), but I knew about the adverts.

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09:38:07

Go Daddy timeline - all this to sell cheap domain names (I think)

6 Feb 2006

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16:38:06

I haven't yet found a single person who watched the IT crowd last week. Lots of people making the right decision there, then.

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16:32:06

I see there is a claim that there are 50,000 weblogs being created every hour. So how long before my cat has one? I wonder what the equivalent rate of abandonment is?

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15:56:06

Oh how embarassing, this University is giving Sting an honorary degree.

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09:22:06

Qwerky

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09:20:06

Tefillin

5 Feb 2006

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15:48:05

Isn't the idea of self-help advice oxymoronic?

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13:31:05

Quipboard

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09:48:05

Rate J-gum - I bet if you were to click randomly on some of those buttons that you would interfere with someone's carefully planned statistics.

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09:45:05

Canadian Jazz

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09:23:05

Good grief

4 Feb 2006

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23:57:04

The Original

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23:55:04

Knopfler does it (Search down a bit)

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23:54:04

Surely not another one (this is nice)

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23:50:04

Bored yet??

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23:42:04

Here it is again

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23:31:04

Djangolin

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22:49:04

Tetsoo

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22:47:04

The Cathedral

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18:36:04

Loads of cracking gypsy jazz videos - some splendid playing.

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18:24:04

Guess what

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18:20:04

More

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18:11:04

Nice - one of my favouritest tunes ever of course.

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16:54:04

Marilynn Mair

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16:50:04

Absynth Quintet

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16:21:04

I saw someone in a T-shirt today that said "George Bush & Son. Family Butchers (Est. 1989)" in a nice understated typeface.

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09:09:04

Amazing (It's C program that generates Magic Eye images, that is itself such an image)

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09:07:04

Hmmmm

3 Feb 2006

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21:36:03

This episode is even less funny than the first one.

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21:30:03

Another Green Wing teaser and it was funnier in 10 seconds than the whole of the IT Crowd

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21:29:03

These advert things on the TV are odd. Don't normally see them.

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21:28:03

Ah, a teaser for the new Green Wing. Good. Though perhaps reminding us of programmes that are well acted and actually funny in the middle of the IT Crowd may be a mistake.

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21:23:03

I was catching up with last week's BBC4 programme about Django. Great original film of him playing, and lots of good players throughout. Annoying man doing the show though. Liked the story about the Gypsy Jazz rivalry in Tokyo. And the Django pizza in the Django theme bar in Tokyo which has Chilli beans on it. Asked what this had to do with Django the waiter said "It's Hot" Update : I sort of take it back about the annoying presenter - he had a knack for asking rather searching questions that put people instantly on the defensive : asking about Django and the Nazis for instance.

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21:21:03

Well, the IT Crowd (and they still keep calling it not I.T.) appears to be utter rubbish. One or two funny lines, the live audience (or so it is claimed) is annoying, terrible acting. God, and it's a double bill. But then it's My Name is Earle which is excellent.

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16:10:03

Mnemonics

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12:19:03

Juneberry 78s

2 Feb 2006

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16:30:02

The Westfield Center - nothing to do with flat earthers either (Full disclosure: I used to run the Flat Earth Society at my school until it was banned)

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16:24:02

Show off

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16:12:02

Outside and inside

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12:00:02

I gather they have sacked Souness. Is anyone surprised? Does anyone care? "Who is Souness?" I hear people saying. What are you talkin about? Trust me, you aren't interested. I certainly amn't. (My family tell me that amn't isn't a word, but I use it all the time)

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09:49:02

May have done Westfield before, but it is worth looking at again.

1 Feb 2006

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21:58:01

The wand (via Miltantplatypus)

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20:04:01

Good grief

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20:01:01

Hah

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14:07:01

Peter Callesen

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13:32:01

Face in blocks

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12:27:01

Neat (via the red ferret)

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11:09:01

I had not seen the South Park version of the Aristorcrats before.

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09:05:01

Men knit

31 Jan 2006

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20:40:31

Grafedia

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19:17:31

Hmmm

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18:57:31

Regurgitator - one of those old carnie tricks. Houdini used to store lockpicks this way.

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18:54:31

Fish School

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15:02:31

Oh, good lord (via Snarky)

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14:10:31

People say that weblogging changes everything (well, actually they user another word that is shorter but which I won't pollute your eyes with), so I wonder if posting things will make me feel less crap today?

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12:13:31

Great

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10:24:31

Pacman

30 Jan 2006

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19:58:30

Bliar just came on the television, and I thought it was an impersonator.

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19:06:30

Bloody hell

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14:37:30

Feeling horrible today (and for the last few days) - some chesty, virusy, coughy, coldy thing. Ugh.

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14:28:30

Deer Hunter

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12:43:30

Debbie's IDea

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12:30:30

Clientcopia

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12:20:30

Iron Hymen

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11:22:30

Waterfall 2006

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09:40:30

Hmmmm

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09:22:30

Rice Raiser

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08:47:30

Tic-frac-toe

28 Jan 2006

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17:10:28

Green Metropolis - secondhand books

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10:24:28

Ugh

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10:17:28

Laptop Battle

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10:04:28

Fantastic

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09:42:28

I see that Tony McPhee is playing here soon. Might be good.

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09:24:28

Huh??

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09:22:28

Hah

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09:17:28

John Ostle's Journal - some remarkable entries

27 Jan 2006

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13:26:27

World Jump Day - just like One Way Pendulum

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12:43:27

Bizarre

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11:34:27

Supersized meals - ugh

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10:34:27

Good Grief

26 Jan 2006

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15:06:26

Panic disorder?????? No wonder

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09:15:26

Word count (Bifurcated comes in at 74913 and rivets at 31802)

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09:13:26

Excellent

25 Jan 2006

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15:22:25

Your guess is as good mine (Actually it's probably better)

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12:11:25

I don't watch Lost, so have no idea what it is about except that nobody know what it is about, but this is an interesting suggestion.

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11:53:25

Hah

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07:31:25

Hmm, ignore the pin in the Google map, I thought I had removed that - the interface is a little too persistent about remembering searches. It's the tall building I work in. North side, 10th floor. Hopefully, the pin is gone now.

24 Jan 2006

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22:09:24

Well, I see that I am eligible for a Lifetime Achievement Bloggie. Nobody nominated me of course. Ah, well.

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21:35:24

If Microsoft made guitar amps (via Thumbrella)

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21:02:24

More new foods at McSweeney's - don't read while in the act of drinking anything.

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12:36:24

Been listening to Johnny Staats who is a very fine mandolin player indeed.

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09:56:24

Hah

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09:33:24

Young Blair

23 Jan 2006

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20:26:23

French Maid TV

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16:06:23

Damn, I had a fantastic idea for an RSS service last night and I can't remember it now. Given that I couldn't for the life of me get hold of the word alloy over the weekend, I doubt it will come back.

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14:48:23

Auctioneers - try 1964 and 2004

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14:07:23

Artnatomia is everywhere today, but it is an excellent tool

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09:27:23

Great list of apples - I love apples

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09:26:23

Fruit Salad Tree

22 Jan 2006

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19:28:22

Collagists

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19:22:22

Don't Bomb us

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19:21:22

Sitayana (but no chapter 4 for some reason)

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11:52:22

Prangstgrup - check out the archive. Startup sound is good.

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09:57:22

Varini (look at Varini's site to see more, but there are no off-axis shots so the point is sort of lost.

21 Jan 2006

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23:52:21

I forgot to add that someone is suggesting that bird flu is a scare to get people vaccinated with "micro-chips, possibly even terminator chips"! Woooo, scary! The trouble with Nexus is that hidden under all the wacko, nuttiness and utter ill informed ignorance there are sometimes glimpses of interesting possible truths which is what keeps me coming back to it. These flashes do seem to be getting fewer though.

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23:48:21

I just got the most recent Nexus magazine. I always swear I am not going to buy another copy but always end up getting it. Someone is advertising proudly that their gadget was awarded "best new alternative health product for 2005" by the Buckinghamshire Echo! Suggested vists to Electric Universe and New criminologist And I'm only on page 5. Such an embarassment of riches.

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23:11:21

I'll not bother with aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh

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17:57:21

"A l'eau. C'est l'heure." The motto of the French Navy (according to the sleeve nots on a Sandy Brechin CD). What should call sleeve notes on a CD since there is no sleeve? Case notes?

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12:15:21

Antphoto

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11:58:21

Hah

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09:44:21

Hmmmm

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09:39:21

Dorodango

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09:28:21

Bibliomania

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09:18:21

Midi or Virtuoso? (I got one wrong)

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09:10:21

A google experiment : a link to Len's Rio Caliente pages

20 Jan 2006

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23:29:20

Able Muse

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22:00:20

Best of Google video - some I hadn't seen

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21:14:20

Catching up on television tonight : watched the Sun Ra documentary that was on a while back and a program about Soho in the 50s. Both excellent.

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21:11:20

Tokyo nighttime

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20:02:20

The Cubes

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17:05:20

Plant Amnesty

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16:11:20

An old story of course, but I hadn't come across the FH rant before. Excellent!

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13:00:20

Planet Perplex

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12:38:20

More Clarksdale Moan (I didn't know about the Patton photo either, or about the Robert Johnson track. *sigh*)

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12:32:20

Good lord, someone has found "Clarksdale Moan". I'd really like to know the story behind that. (Misssing link there - there is a wikipedia entry that will tell you all if you don't already know)

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12:15:20

Fake I'm sure

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12:00:20

Good grief

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11:54:20

Hmmmm

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11:51:20

FourDocs

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11:46:20

THE Catalogue

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11:36:20

Neat

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11:35:20

Storynest

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10:11:20

Hah

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09:11:20

Amazing

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07:26:20

Oh, I say, chaps

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07:14:20

RIP Wilson Pickett

19 Jan 2006

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23:24:19

Hmmmm

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15:47:19

Nothing much in the Museum of Bifurcated Rivets yet, but there will be. Be prepared for lots of unslick design....

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14:29:19

Good grief

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12:26:19

Final indeed

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09:04:19

Wonderful

18 Jan 2006

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19:36:18

Ooops

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17:04:18

Betty Crocker (from the same site as Sears 1971)

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16:55:18

1971 Sears

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16:07:18

Been listening to a trio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi - fine piano playing.

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15:10:18

Find out about the diatoms of Loch Maree at my dad's website.

17 Jan 2006

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23:45:17

Fantastic

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22:40:17

Hah

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14:46:17

Hmmmm

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14:30:17

Fusion Anomaly (via FFK/Fulm)

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14:19:17

A hidden goatse, or is it just me? Wonderfully meaningless diagram. I love the way that the web is this little puff of dust at the bottom.

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10:23:17

Earth Whistles

16 Jan 2006

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23:16:16

I have to say that I find all these people who obsess on the net about life improvement slightly unsettling. What is wrong with piles of stuff for example? or indeed, clutter - just because some people don't like it, does not mean that it is necessarily indicative of being a bad person. I find anal tidyness weird and unhealthy, but you seem to not to be allowed to say that, just as you are not allowed to say that a lot of the GTD has all the manifestations of a cult : I got flamed horrendously by someone for suggesting that.

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22:19:16

Hah

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21:29:16

The data

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16:38:16

Hah - I'll do it for 50 quid.

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15:17:16

Levees

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14:03:16

I just got an email message with the subject line : TAKEN Pirate Ship (Whitley Bay)

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13:57:16

Some Hampton Hawes now - what a great piano player he was.

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13:19:16

Memory Master

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13:16:16

Oh, more good stuff from iTunes, Alison Brown, I'm naked and going to Glasgow. The random numbers have been hitting the spot today.

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12:38:16

Simon Thoumire doing the Tipsy Sailor popped up again - damn, he's good.

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12:37:16

Hah

15 Jan 2006

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22:53:15

Big article in the Observer today where Henry Porter confuses the web with the Internet. *sigh*

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09:22:15

wankr

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09:20:15

Luminarium

14 Jan 2006

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23:06:14

Hmmm (via snarky)

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22:08:14

Remember when Spybot - Search & Destroy had less than 10000 tests? 34177 in the current version.

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20:09:14

Custom creature

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20:07:14

Good stuff here

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09:37:14

Yo-yo museum

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09:22:14

Colette

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09:14:14

Searchlore

13 Jan 2006

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21:20:13

Barnraiser - looks like somethign I have been after for a while

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20:49:13

One of my all time favourite tunes linked from here.

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16:33:13

DIY Foundry

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16:04:13

Peatbog Faeries on at the moment. Good stuff.

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15:32:13

Fill my room

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15:18:13

Implosion World - the videos are great. The stadium demolitions are great - fulton is better than philly since it is bi-directional

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13:01:13

Nice

12 Jan 2006

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22:18:12

madness

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15:49:12

I may be doing some layout fiddling off and on over the next while so if it sometimes looks horrible and wrong (or at least horribler and wronger), I would advise you to take less of whatever it is you are taking.

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15:31:12

Yes, there has been a left shift.

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13:56:12

Great (via adblog)

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13:39:12

Hah

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13:26:12

Neat but flash

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13:20:12

Meatbook (note page 8 - add MSG to rice when cooking it and "The Rice Industry no longers considers it necessary to wash rice before cooking" : the Rice Industry?)

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12:53:12

Teleflip - I only know one US mobile number, so I've tried it

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12:52:12

The conditions for US photo stamps - 3A seems potentially to exclude almost anything worth putting on a stamp!

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11:49:12

Phonetrips - note the retro web awards too.

11 Jan 2006

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20:10:11

I got a fantastic rivet sizing gizmo today that I bought on ebay. Tells you the size of holes to drill and stuff. Definitely one for the calendar.

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20:08:11

Cakes by design

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20:06:11

And the point is?

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20:04:11

Plastic Radios

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20:03:11

Huh?

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20:03:11

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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19:38:11

Boing Boing has a thing about someone spending a year at Disney World? Why would anyone voluntarily visit that hell of earth?

10 Jan 2006

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22:34:10

MTB Militia

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09:47:10

Hah

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09:45:10

Another website that refuses to accept .name email addresses - it tests on the length of the last component of the domain being 2 or 3 characters long. People do need to stop relying on tests like that. (And, no, there is not meant to be a link associated with this posting)

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09:36:10

Absolutely fantastic - I might even start using this to put up nice images.

9 Jan 2006

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20:23:09

Newza da weird

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16:36:09

Hmmm - you might think the page creator is somehow unsure of their gender.

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16:14:09

Hel-looks (via Folderol) Someone ought to do a Bigg Market/Quayside website with photos of the styles there...

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16:12:09

Ooops (via Folderol)

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15:39:09

Can Do Exchange

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14:47:09

Hah!

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12:01:09

Craft Fair

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11:29:09

Seen on the net : "The top five Windows problems:

1) Viruses. 2) Infections. 3) Spyware. 4) Trojans. 5) Adware.

What a perfect acronym for the latest from Redmond!
"

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09:16:09

Hah

8 Jan 2006

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20:21:08

RIP Heinrich Harrer

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20:14:08

Hung

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20:13:08

Secret Societies

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20:11:08

Totally agree - I really want a steam room or something in my house. (And a J-Loo)

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20:09:08

Kodesex

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20:03:08

Penguin Sweaters

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20:01:08

Dr McNinja

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10:32:08

Mousehole

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10:25:08

Hyperwords

7 Jan 2006

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22:02:07

Garden your city

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21:25:07

Hmmm

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20:57:07

What's with all these awful "10 ways to..." articles that have popped up recently (for instance) - "10 short trite paragraphs that fill a page" perhaps. I'm surprised that the Generator web log hasn't had a 10 list generator.

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11:02:07

Crunks '05

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09:24:07

Hmmmm - ever wonder why all these secret societies are always of European origin? Where are all the Chinese and Indian secret societies, after all they've been civilised a lot longer. Or perhaps the Templars are a front organisation for an ancient Chinese society..... (Do follow the guy's links for some wonderful nuttiness)

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09:06:07

Hah

6 Jan 2006

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23:33:06

My Name is Earle was quite funny on C4 tonight

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23:32:06

Wacky Warnings - sort of funny, sort of yawn....

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23:30:06

Aargh

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23:08:06

Want

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22:31:06

Been on an "away day" today

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20:57:06

RIP Lou Rawls

5 Jan 2006

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22:15:05

Limbic resonance

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09:53:05

Sell your soul

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09:48:05

RFID Zapper

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09:43:05

I was thinking about making a Bifurcated Rivets calendar : a lovely photo of a Bifrucated Rivets tin for every month.

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09:30:05

Typecasting

4 Jan 2006

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18:39:04

TOOOL

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15:41:04

Hemaworstje can try to hide but can't escape : try here. (quite NSFW as you would expect and indeed might hope)

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14:27:04

Why is Google in braille today?

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13:40:04

Having another Alison Brown day : so good, so good.

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13:30:04

I wondered what had happened to these photos which used ot be on display in Thornes bookshop. (via Look at this)

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12:55:04

Drink recipes

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12:45:04

Listen with headphones - astonishing and creepy

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12:33:04

Games

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09:50:04

Thanks Gary - some good stuff in there, just the kind of thing I have been looking for recently too.

3 Jan 2006

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22:35:03

Blonde joke

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22:27:03

Web developer firefox extension just went to 1.0 - good stuff.

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22:18:03

Atlantic 252 (of no interest to occipondians I suspect, and probably very few others)

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19:25:03

Hmmmm

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10:12:03

Excellent "In Dada spirit, Highberger did not select a specific month to celebrate Dada. Instead he’s proclaiming International Dada month as Feb. 4, April 1, March 28, July 15, Aug. 2, Aug. 7, Aug. 16, Aug. 26, Sept. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 1, Oct. 17 and Oct. 26. Highberger selected the dates by rolling dice and pulling numbers from a hat."

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10:08:03

Hmmmm - might be NSFW and might offend, but do read about Master Skip, and indeed any of them. Do you think they know how ridiculous they sound?

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10:03:03

Collage

2 Jan 2006

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22:51:02

Huh - I didn't get sent any. And where's my G5?

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21:45:02

Strange, NSFW, and certain to offend

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10:13:02

Play gamelan

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10:12:02

Which book?

1 Jan 2006

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22:39:01

I note once again that I seem to have failed to win (or be nominated for) any of the prestigious web awards last year. Or even any of the unprestigious ones.

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21:46:01

Bluegrassbox (Thanks Gary)

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21:16:01

Wandoo Digeridoo

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10:47:01

Closures and name changes - horrible when something like that happens. (I am still angry that they changed the name of Bainbridges in Newcastle)

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10:44:01

DJ Izoh

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10:41:01

I could go there (Len is going in fact)

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10:39:01

One way to spend new year's eve (Though I think they got the year wrong)

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10:37:01

Dummy houses

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10:37:01

Ball of paint (popups and horrible ad alert)

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10:35:01

Hah

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10:34:01

Bye Bye Blackboard - I much prefer blackboards to whiteboards for teaching.

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10:33:01

Glass engine

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10:32:01

My first tattoo

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10:31:01

Saddest songs - Satie Gymnopedie?????

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10:29:01

Pet coffins

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10:28:01

Escherization

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10:27:01

Cindy Wright

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Happy new year everyone

31 Dec 2005

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17:25:31

Silvester Nacht

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10:21:31

Hmmm

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10:11:31

Old Tokyo

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10:03:31

Nothing like starting a new volume on the last day of the year, don't you think?