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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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6:31 pm - Links
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Right, links! Have I got a collection for you!
First off, the best thing I've seen all week: Rings Around The World, or The Rings of Earth, a short video on what the Earth would look like if it had rings. It's really good! If we all write in to Barack Obama, do you reckon he'll blow up the moon for us so we can have some rings?
Talking of lobbying, the UK Government is thinking of introducing proposals to cut off accused filesharers without warning or indeed anything approaching due process of law. If you think that's a bad idea, sign this petition! (UK residents/citizens only.)
Meanwhile, over in Minneapolis, you can if you wish go and see A Christmas Carol in Klingon. If I lived there, I'd be almost tempted. :)
This post gets worse, I'm afraid. Much worse. First of all, there is The Meow Mix, which will put the fear of Bast into you for life.
Next, the 30 Most Disturbing Twilight Products. I don't know whether my favourites are the sparkly dildo, the Edward Cullen silhouette wall decal, or Bella's uterus (don't ask).
And finally, awesome multi-fandom sparkly news. For next year's Simpsons Halloween special, they plan to have Lisa fall in love with a vampire who sparkles. As if that wasn't funny enough, the vampire is voiced by none other than... Daniel Radcliffe.
Told you it was awesome. :)
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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10:46 am - Linkses!
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Short one today. First of all, marmots! How can you not like marmots? Everyone likes marmots. We like deer and we like marmots and we like all the fluffy animals and we really like the moon. ;)
There is now a mouse designed specifically for use with OpenOffice. I am intrigued but feel I wouldn't use half the functionality.
Many of you may be familiar with Failblog. Well, now there's a blog detailing the opposite - Succeedblog! There are some truly impressive feats in there, although in some cases, I do have to ask why?
ION, someone's found a mandrake!
This is really clever and yet disturbing - Face Paint artist from Michigan paints his face to look like the members of Kiss, octopi and a dog's arse. Um. Yes. It's good, but it's not right! Not for the face paint phobic, that.
Everyone's got a Twitter now, and now even Big Ben's got one. Nifty but a tad repetitive, I feel.
Daily Fail's current poll is more leading than even I'd expect. Should female MPs be allowed to employ cleaners on expenses? Well, yes obviously. Get in there and skew it, my friends. :)
And finally! Got kids? Worship the Elder Gods? Want to make sure the kids grow up in your footsteps (or flipper tracks or tentacle trails, depending on just how far you've gone with it)?
Look no further. Let this educational video assist you. The Adventures of Lil' Cthulhu. I feel it lays the finer points of the mythos out quite adequately. :)
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current music: Muse - Uprising
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| Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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8:40 pm - Linkses!
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Haven't done one of these for a while, so here goes!
Before anything else, ![[info - livejournal.com]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) bathtubgin and lovelybug are doing a sponsored firewalk to raise money for the Fawcett Society's Equal Pay campaigning. Please give generously!
If you think getting around London is awkward now, it could have been worse. Or better, depending on your point of view. The borough boundaries could have been based on hexagons. Somehow, it never caught on.
Incidentally, I may have to subscribe to that blog. I love maps! Especially weird ones.
I quite like charts too, especially ones like this - Total Eclipse of the Chart. It's a flow chart designed to guide you around Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. I especially like the division of the various bits into 'croon' and 'belt'.
And that's off a blog also specialising in odd charts! *adds*
Speaking of geeky charts, today's XKCD is awesome. Even better, there's a large version that's fully readable. Sweet!
The acrostic is alive and well in California, as this letter of veto from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California legislature demonstrates. Best bit is the quote from Arnie's spokesperson.
Someone has made an actual Ban Hammer. Classy.
However, I think the opposite of classy may be this. Someone out there has made a set of Robert Pattinson ladies' underwear. Complete with panty liner detail of RPattz's face. Oh. Dear.
At least it's fan-made and not official (or unofficial - they're not for sale at all) merchandise. Which does beg the question - why on earth did no one in HP fandom go there? You're not telling me no HP fen wouldn't have gone after a set of DanRad pants?
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current music: Velvet Revolver - Get Out The Door
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| Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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7:44 pm
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Very little going on in my life at the moment, so here are links!
They're making a comic book about JK Rowling! Looks interesting, although I am a tad weirded out by the fact it's a part of a collection, one of which is on Sarah Palin...
The Kanye West heckle is gaining new life in memeage - here is a mashup of him heckling Obama.
And another meme is taken to new heights of geekery - students from MIT plaster the notes from 'Never Gonna Give You Up' on the university's Great Dome.
Meanwhile, someone from the US Olympic fencing team gave Obama a plastic sword and Photoshop did the rest.
Finally, even the keenest breakfast enthusiast would have difficulty polishing this off - a £10 fried breakfast involving 10 eggs, 10 sausages, 10 rashers of bacon, 5 black pudding, 10 slices of toast, mushrooms, tomatoes and beans. Free if you eat the whole thing in 20 minutes. No word on if tea's included with that.
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| Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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11:14 pm - Linkses!
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| Saturday, August 29th, 2009
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3:20 pm - Here Be Monsters
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Summer Glau joins Dollhouse! Good news for Joss geeks.
In other news, the old stereotype that men don't empathise as well as women? Utter rubbish - a new study suggests they're quite capable, they just don't bother. I feel so many alleged differences between men and women come down to that in the end. :)
Legoland has a motorsport arena now... and the Top Gear presenters plus Stig are in it! Yay!
How to make a plush cell model! Look, it's got mitochondria and spidles and everything!
It had to happen - there's a Harry Potter gay porn film in the making. Bits of it are in 3D. If they, er, need any creative input... *ahem*.
Loch Ness Monster seen on Google Earth. They're coming for us, I tell you...
And on the topic of monsters, here's a Monster Venn Diagram! Never knew there were so many things that were based on narwhals.
Someone has baked Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes! Nyom.
And finally, I have a flash game! Silent Conversation, which is a bit like Super Mario with books. Watch for the Lovecraft levels, those things are evil!
current mood:  irritated
current music: Carleen Anderson - Maybe I'm Amazed (Ian Grimble Mix / Full Length Version)
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| Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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8:55 am - OK, one last link
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| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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8:11 pm - BICON IS TOMORROW!!!
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SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I am all packed and ready. :D Travel all booked. Nearly everything sorted at work. I'm READY!
Will have laptop with me but do not know extent of internet access. So I may be offline for the weekend. So in order that you lot are not bored while I am away, here are some links!
Paid LJ Members - LJ are offering three extra days of paid time to compensate for slow service last week.
Think your partner never listens? They can't be as bad as this girl. Boy talks repeatedly about upcoming fortnight in Europe he has planned. Girl either isn't listening or forgets... because after he leaves, she doesn't realise he's on holiday and thinks he's ignoring her. The result? A cringingly funny YouTube video of the emails she bombards him with.
Probably the best Michael Jackson memorial yet - Michael Jackson as drawn on an Etch a Sketch. It's really quite impressive! Took 150 hours, apparently.
For the prurient among you, here's the machine they use to test condoms with. Most common cause of condom breakage is a blunt puncture motion. Who knew?
And finally, ZOMBIES! :D
First up, Zombaritaville - song lyrics rewritten with zombie themes. I think the rewrite of The Passenger is my favourite. :)
And finally, Louis Armstrong meets the Zombie Apocalypse. Scenes from the game Left 4 Dead set to What A Wonderful World. It's a tad disturbing, I grant you.
current mood: amused
current music: Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass
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| Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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9:23 pm - Linkses!
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Slate is doing a week long feature on the End of America, and one of the highlights is a little flash web toy called Choose your own Apocalypse! You too can choose combinations of up to five ways the USA is going to snuff it, ranging from the benign (World Government) to the lethal (SuperVolcano); the plausible (Peak Oil) to the Vastly Unlikely (Alien Invasion). Have fun playing with it - I did. :)
Also these are very cute - Simon's Cat, animated short films by a guy called Simon who has a cat. I LOL'ed.
Not one for RSI sufferers - Pixel otherwise known as death to your mouse hand. Addictive though.
Talking of pixels - Bangkok's newest skyrise project is going for the pixellated look. I'm thinking less along the lines of pixels and more along the lines of Cloverfield, but YMMV.
And finally, there is this apartment building in Florida with only one family living there. Sounds peaceful... and yet very lonely.
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| Friday, July 31st, 2009
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9:26 pm - STOP SCROLLING AND READ THIS.
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| Saturday, July 25th, 2009
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11:43 pm
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| Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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11:09 pm - Half Blood Prince
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Went to see Half Blood Prince at the Imax last night. Was really good! Although the 3D bit only lasted for the first 15 minutes, which was a little disappointing.
Very good though. ( Spoilers )
All in all, good movie.
In related news, I noted this story in yesterday's thelondonpaper in which Dan Radcliffe thinks it's great when people think he's gay. Which apparently happens quite a lot. According to certain unnamed gay web fora *cough*slashfandom*cough*, Dan has a 'gay face'.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE HAS A GAY FACE, EVERYONE!!! IT MUST BE TRUE, EVEN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS SAY SO. :D The paper speculates he may be about to come out as bi, but I suspect this is just speculation.
Although if he does, fandom will explode. I reckon he should therefore do it whether he actually is or not, just so I can watch everyone's reactions.
ION, we have a huge thunderstorm going on over London tonight. Cat is not frightened exactly, but being a bit clingy even by his standards. Was curled up in my arms while I typed earlier. Now he's just sitting on my duvet with his eyes shut.
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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9:17 pm
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TODAY'S TOP GEAR, OMG!!! Absolutely wonderful.
( Spoilers! Literally. )
Right, a few links! First, http://www.118800.co.uk/, a website which buys up phone numbers and, if you do a search for someone's name, will put you in touch with them. I've taken advantage of the going ex-directory option, myself.
Next up, this gorgeous short story involving sea people, science, species with differing gender roles and family life, and generally being just beautiful and awesome.
And finally, for Buffy fans and those who just didn't fancy Twilight - Buffy Summers vs. Edward Cullen. Now this is a movie I would like to see... but this short mash-up pretty much gets the point across. :)
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current music: Train - Drops of Jupiter
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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11:02 pm - Michael Jackson
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Has been taken to hospital after suspected heart attack. It isn't looking good, and there's several news reports that he's died - nothing confirmed but the fact that the BBC is repeating them, as are other news outlets is telling. Twitter has fallen over. JournalFen has very little concrete word. WikiPedia has the hospitalisation news but nothing about a death.
I'm... not sure what to say. I'm a child of the 80s, he was such an icon when I was young, still is. And now he's gone? Flawed, certainly, but he was just such a huge figure the world over. It feels so weird to realise he's not here any more. It's Michael fucking Jackson, you know?
Maybe this is another sign of my own mortality. I'm old enough now to see my childhood icons die. It's an odd sensation.
ETA: Word from the LA Times is he's in a coma. Wait, no... LA Times announcing his death. Damn.
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11:02 pm - Michael Jackson
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Has been taken to hospital after suspected heart attack. It isn't looking good, and there's several news reports that he's died - nothing confirmed but the fact that the BBC is repeating them, as are other news outlets is telling. Twitter has fallen over. JournalFen has very little concrete word. WikiPedia has the hospitalisation news but nothing about a death.
I'm... not sure what to say. I'm a child of the 80s, he was such an icon when I was young, still is. And now he's gone? Flawed, certainly, but he was just such a huge figure the world over. It feels so weird to realise he's not here any more. It's Michael fucking Jackson, you know?
Maybe this is another sign of my own mortality. I'm old enough now to see my childhood icons die. It's an odd sensation.
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| Saturday, June 6th, 2009
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8:39 pm - Meme!
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Rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. (Google Image Search may also work.)
b. Pick an image.
c. Copy each image URL into Mosaic Maker. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3.
d. Save the image and post it on this note.
( The Questions )
( The Result )
Pretty, yes?
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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11:35 pm - Elections tomorrow!
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If you're in the EU, the European Parliament elections are tomorrow!
I freely admit I've not really been following this in any great detail, other than to note the following:
- The BNP are vile and must be beaten at all costs.
- UKIP are not much better. Less openly racist, but more right-wing, corrupt as hell, unstable and generally just no.
- The Christian Party: lacking the BNP's racism, but alas the sexism and homophobia makes up for it. Hell and indeed no.
- Labour are going to get hammered.
- I still hate the Tories.
Just leaves the Lib Dems and the Greens as parties I would actually be willing to vote for. I think on balance it'll probably be the Greens. I am thinking they have changed the voting system this year so you only vote for one party, instead of listing in order of preference. Apparently new voting system is even more arcane and bewildering than the previous STV system was, which is saying something (I support STV but it's kinda complicated).
I would urge all those of you eligible and registered to get out there tomorrow and vote! If you're not sure who to vote for, pick someone likely to beat the BNP at least.
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9:57 pm
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Right, I think I need an external mouse for this laptop - the left mouse button is wearing out.
Recommendations? A wireless one is preferable, plus something not really needing a mouse mat. Also my birthday is next week, partners. ;)
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8:17 pm
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New Carmilla movie with proper lesbianism! Oh yes...
Funky new web gadget: Mapumental. Does maps based on how long it'll take you to get somewhere on public transport! No more will you have to struggle getting to that place which looks so close on the map but in reality takes about three buses to get to. Presently in private beta, but I've signed up for an invite, so who knows, maybe I'll get one. UK maps only though, but it'll certainly be useful for me.
Spinal Tap have a new song out! It's, er, interesting. :P But it was free. And it's called Saucy Jack and it's about Jack the Ripper, and I'm going to see them live at the end of the month so thought I'd better get some listening in. It's not bad actually!
New hoax (maybe?) in London: a spate of memorial bench plaques all from the same family, all with sarcastic phrases. Genuine or a monumental pisstake? I'm thinking the latter, but it made me laugh. :)
Doctors send a petition to WHO asking them to condemn homeopathy. About bloody time - there are some forms of complementary medicine that might actually work, and then there's homeopathy. Absolutely useless. Did a test one summer - over the counter antihistamines versus homeopathic pills. The antihistamines had been working well enough for a few weeks. Weather had been sunny and warm with moderate to high pollen counts, so I'd have been sniffling and sneezing quite badly with no meds. Came off the antihistamines and took the homeopathic pills as directed. HORRIFIC SYMPTOMS SO AWFUL I WAS BACK ON THE CLARITYN WITHIN THREE DAYS. Not the week I'd originally hoped to go for. Don't waste your time or money, folks.
And finally, yesterday's XKCD, otherwise known as Twilight's Revenge. Nice. :)
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| Thursday, May 28th, 2009
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3:24 pm - That time of year again!
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote...
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. (Chaucer as any fule kno)
Specifically to Bicon 2009 in Worcester!
Online registration is now open, so if you hang with bisexuals, work with bisexuals, live with bisexuals, sleep with bisexuals or are bisexual, you are welcome and should come!
Booked my place just now. :) I hope to see many of you there.
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