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:: Saturday, August 23, 2003 ::

Would you like a bag with that? Or a Poodle?

Radioactivity is good for you.

The haircut:
Before During After^*
*Agghh, what a horrible picture! How fucking smug? Mental note: Don’t pull that face again.

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I read it in Bill Brysons: Down Under. The passage it's self and further info can be found here.

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Some complete stranger emailed me last week to ask for higher res images of the Squarepusher pictures I blogged after Glastonbury. The shots were just from a disposable camera so I’ve re-scanned them, along with some others I didn’t bother with before. You can see them here if you’re so inclined; there are six of them and there between 200 and 400 k each.
1 2 3 4 5 Kit
Thanks for getting in touch, Michael, hope these are OK?

:: Dan 22.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Local News: Bristol (we don’t see much about Leeds up here Popcorn?)

In one final aviation adventure to eclipse all others Andy Elson and Colin Prescot are preparing to fly the biggest manned balloon in history "QinetiQ1" - to the edge of Space. Current altitude record: 34668 m.

Spank gets an overhaul. Bristol’s biggest fetish night even gets written up by the Beeb now.

This weeks Guardian Online picks:

Why Blogging is not the new social resolution, to paraphrase, “it’s just a buch of people who could never get published writing crap.” Umm, any argument here... no? OK, I’ll carry on anyway; you’re reading this after all.

Apparently the fact that Downing Street has release a public email address for Tony Blair is a big deal. Yeah, like he’s going to read it.

"Wait for video - and then don't rent it!" Quotes you don't see on film posters.

The children of the 80s are going back to their home-programming roots. Why Basic is coming back into fashion. Dark Basic sounds intriguing.

Chris Johnson, professor of computing science at Glasgow University, has created a program that tracks the development of arguments within documents and looks for material connected to the conclusions. The program strips out the rhetoric that distracts from the conclusions in long documents, such as those produced by an enquiry. Haha, I’d like to run some of the stuff I write for work run though this, or my uni dissertation.

Popcorn: Where did you hear that?

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I heard something today that totally stunned me (partly because I'd not heard it before):
In about 1993, sizmographs (sp?) all over Austrailia picked up a massive disturbance. It didn't fit the patterns of readings that would be caused by an earthquake, and was 160 times more powerful than the biggest mining detonation ever recorded down under. The patterns were closer to a meteor strike, but that would have left a bloody great hole in the outback, and non was to be found.

Scientists pondered over it for a short while but ended up sticking it in the "odd shit just happens occationaly" file.

Fast forward a few years and change country to Japan to the time when the Japanese doomsday cult released sarin into the Tokyo subway.
Whilst investigating the cult, it was discovered that the they owned 500 sq miles of the Aus outback. Slap bang in the middle of this land was ground zero and, on further investigation, a lab was found.

The cult seemed to have been mining Urainium, and had recruited two nuclear scientists from the former USSR.

It would apear that this cult not only had carried out the first non govermental nuclear weapons test, but it had gone totaly unnoticed for four years.



Why the hell didn't this make headline news?

:: popcorn 20.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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By the way popcorn, re this post, if you haven’t got your PC sound working yet you really should hurry up, those tracks are the work of deranged genius! They have stunned the office.

:: Dan 20.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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An interview with Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham about the DVD collections of their respective music videos due out around October. (Via Chicha)

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MSN tries to save you money shock! Look up the cheapest way top call directory enquiries at the bottom of this article; just select which operator you’re calling from. Better consumer choice eh? Funny, they all look more expensive than they used to be. In fact, considering that 192 was free from payphones (in my student days I used to nip out to a payphone to call directory enquires then go back to may flat to make a call) it’s defiantly more expensive.

:: Dan 20.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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A girl from Frome in Somerset has been bailed from a Greek jail after being arrested for flashing either her breasts or her bottom (changes depending on which report you read) in a beauty contest in Faliraki. Look at the picture the Beeb have used to report her case! Is this a normal family snap shot? Does she walk around with her breasts exposed like this at all times? Don’t they have a shot of her ass as well?

Another Maize Maze story. This one near Bath, has appeared, well was “cut out of the living crop”, it wasn’t created by aliens or anything interesting like that, but after only a month the council have declared it too popular and a cause of traffic congestion and demanded its closure. Another great publicity pic here, the crop isn’t knee high to a toddler, how fucking pointless is that? The maze looks as lame as a leaper with arthritis who’s just attempted the marathon then gets asked if he can help someone move house and tries to single handily simultaneously carry a dishwasher and a washing machine up ten flights of stairs. OK, bad analogy, but the maze is still lame.

:: Dan 20.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Someone else's pictures of Polly at Eden on this thread.

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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A variant of MSBlast spread on Monday, but the new worm has an odd twist: It applies a patch for the vulnerability that it and other MSBlast worms use to infect Windows systems

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Rare record shopping

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Flashmugging hits Chipping Sodbury.

Project the AOL coaster the furthest distance (without using explosives or anything dangerous) competition. Blackpool Beach, last Saturday. Who won, anyone know?

Right, that’s definitely enough links plagiarised from Need To Know for time being.

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Computer-Throwing Contest

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Stolen from G3RM:
Doctor slang is a dying art due to increasing litigation. Beeb’s example: TTFO = "Told To Go Away". Hmm.

:: Dan 19.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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Nice little Engrish generator (winner of NTK Engrish comp), keep refreshing.
And from the same author: The world's flags given letter grades.

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Museums based on very specific and yet mundane everyday objects: "The Derwent Pencil Museum is the only attraction in the world devoted exclusively to the rich and fascinating history of the pencil."

:: Dan 18.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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I watched 28 Days Later over the weekend and enjoyed both endings presented on the DVD. Now, you might get the same selection of endings in the cinema.

:: Dan 18.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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How do you like your movie served?

:: Dan 18.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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