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:: Saturday, August 02, 2003 ::

Look at the size of those balls! (Marbles that is. Amanda provided for scale)

:: Dan 2.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Private spacecarft test flight pic.
The craft itself (imaginatively called SpaceShipOne) is just the middle bit, the rest is the aircraft that launces it (White Knight).

More info here

:: popcorn 2.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Naked Masturbating Glastonbury Hippy Woman found elsewhere on web. So someone did take some photos after all.

:: Dan 1.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Meet the latest spaced out modern artist - a picture-drawing robot arm in Australia whose brain sits in a petri dish in the US.

:: Dan 31.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Mike Oldfield isn’t bitter about piracy; “That's why record sales are down 50% ... people are used to buying one copy and then making 50 copies on their PC” !!! And how many times have you released the same album Mr Oldfield?

:: Dan 31.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Mad Austrian secedes in skydive across the English Channel. Well I’ll be a chimp’s father’s brother-in-law.

:: Dan 31.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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It's another sad day for English society.
Who should be on our banknotes survey.
Sophie Dahl was the last choice for the 20, what were people thinking?
More seriously, I can't believe people actually voted for Bechham, JK Rowling and Will Young? But then, there wasn't the widest possible choice there, I just hope those people weren't nominated by the general public.

:: Dan 31.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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The pilots at airline SAS will have to check the aircraft themselves between each flight from 1 August. Technicians fear that the pilots will fail to notice damages.

Well, I’m no expert, but I think I can see a blockage in that engine from here.

A customer in a sex shop wanted to check if the condoms fit him and was so polite the staff did not want to report him for indecent exposure

Dog eats dead owner

'Drink-driver' acquitted as he was still drunk when he confessed

A disco in Sandefjord, Norway was fed up with 'sleazy old men' and started refusing entry to men older than 35.
Right, so I have less than 10 years left assuming these sort of rules make it to the UK in the next few years. Better get leering then...

:: Dan 30.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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I've done it. It's finally happened. Nay-sayers said nay, doom-mongers monged doom... but it's done. I've had my hair cut. After ten years of long hair. All of it. Off.

My bother cut it for me last night; in a style we've dubbed "The 18mm". He reminded me while he was doing it of when Popcorn had his ponytail cut off and it was pinned to the notice board in Browns in Bristol (where they both worked at the time) until the Head-Chef throw a wobbly about it.

We did take some photos but they are likely to languish in the camera until I finish off the film in about a years time but I’ll endeavour to scan them and post them eventually.

:: Dan 30.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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The Americans are really starting to scare me.
I'm so glad terror-daq has been pulled, as it seems like the most absurdly idiotic idea the pentagon have ever come up with.

:: popcorn 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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If you find statistics about media in anyway interesting you might like to look at nationmaster.com’s media section, where you could find out Internet users (per capita), Cinema attendance (per capita), Newspaper circulation (per capita), Website defacements (per capita), around the world. And on the main site you can find out the Top 100 Most Murderous Countries on Earth and all sorts of other fun stuff.

:: Dan 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Is there something in aussy genes that predisposes them to loosing their marbles at the same time as growing brass balls the size of melons?
On Thursday, this man will attempt to glide across the English Channel, with nothing much more than a 6' wing strapped to his back.
Certifiable.

Good luck to him.

:: popcorn 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Also via Chicha: the lonely pillow.

:: popcorn 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Further thanks to Nathalie Chicha for blogging What The Font!?, I didn't even know there were tools like this. I have finally identified the font Clay used to create the early Gusset posters [Gusset Fiddlers, Brewhouse 1, Brewhouse 2], which has been annoying me for ages. It’s Handwrite Inkblot for anyone is interested.

:: Dan 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Now you can judge a book by its cover, thanks to Cheshire Dave's Book Cover Review Site. (Source: Cup of Chicha)

:: Dan 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Swiss army chair

Just how dumb is this guy?

:: popcorn 29.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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GUI Gallery. The Timeline is particularly interesting for the geeks. (Stolen from G3RM) (I only scored 38% in the geek test btw, which I was a bit upset about, I think it’s the lack of graphic novels)

(Oops, Grom had already blogged that image, and more.)

:: Dan 28.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Agghhh!!! My eyes, my eyes!!!

Follow up to the worst interview ever, the worst presentation ever. (Annikah sounds gorgeous if you ask me, I want to see this woman!)

P.S. Blake's 7 rules.
P.P.S. Hello Dave, long time no see. How's life?

:: Dan 28.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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ooh ooh, thought you might appreciate some noise radio too

:: Dash 28.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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You probably know already, but there's some good cybershite here..., you wanna get to Warshite for the cool videos... plus the touretaphone is a wicked laugh!

We are getting the network set up in our new house and I might start talking to you dudes again if we can get my dam puter to work...

:: Dash 28.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Blake's 7 is set to return. Is it just me or does the flash for this site out-do the SFX of the original series by about a factor of 20?

:: popcorn 28.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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Hello, hello. I'm back from my holiday. Have been camping in Cornwall for the last week and have seen plenty of interesting stuff and had a great time despite the variable (and often shit) weather. I managed to eat in Rick Stein's St. Petroc's Bistro, saw (probably) the world largest marble run in House of Marbles, nearly visited Padsow Maize Maze but decided it was too expensive (£4.50 each for a maze!), visited several National Trust properties as the wife is still trying to make the membership pay, a few castles, The Lizard, and the horribly commercial Lands End (only missing a McDonalds and it could claim to be The Restaurant at the End of the Earth. No really, it already claims to be The End of the Earth!) I'll bore you with some photos soon.

P.S. Amanda has just reminded me about the Monkey Sanctuary and the monkey we saw licking its own cock (no photo I’m afraid). She didn't understand why it would do that. Women.

:: Dan 27.7.03 [Arc]    ::
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