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Monthly Archives: February 2005
I love the Pope, the Pope smokes dope.
I don’t mean to be profane, but I’m wondering about the Pope’s tracheotomy. As I understand it, the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, in which the Pope surely believes, holds that the special bread eaten during the ritual of communion actually … Continue reading
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Identifont – identify fonts and typefaces
Oh baby, am I a nerd or what? I love this site. It asks you a series of questions about what the letters in a font look like and then tries to identify it for you. There are questions like … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Technology
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Children ‘harmed’ by vegan diets
This idiotic story is so ironic it makes me laugh. American scientists criticising Vegan parents as unethical. Scientists have consistently used science on behalf of their big-business employers to persuade and coerce parents all over the world into feeding their … Continue reading
Posted in Shopping, Technology
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If only everything was so simple
I’ve been burning loads of DVDs in my Powerbook recently, copies of films and backups and so on. A few days ago I got this weird error message just as Toast was starting to burn a disk: Sense Key = … Continue reading
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AArrgh
I’m just copying some DVDs that my friend Giles lent me. I can’t believe I just sat and watched the “out-takes” at the end of Toy Story 2. Really.
Posted in Media, Shopping, Technology
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Ahhhhh
Question Time, a BBC programme in which a panel of politicians or other usually serious public figures answer audience questions about current political issues, went a bit off-topic this week. If you’re in the audience and you want to ask … Continue reading
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