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Friday, November 25, 2005 - "Been so very very long - I'm sure you've missed me"

> Quotes

  • You don't get Jacque Schitte from the French.
  • It's not wrong, it's just American. - Then it's WRONG!

> Serious

  • ID Cards. Horrible idea. Worse implementation. [Details] [Details]
  • Taiwan might, at last, outlaw caning. [Details]
  • Living alone might be beggarig our social systems. Hmm. [Details]
  • The final countdown. [Details]
  • Read the eula? Blah. Just make 'em illegal already. [Details]
  • Patriot act gets worse. [Details]
  • Stopping htem makijng foolish mistakes they'll regret in later ife, or applying power that they wish they had but don't? [Details]
  • Kinda belated. Halloween - pales in comparison to "burn the papist in effigy" night. [Details]

> Politics

  • Burning civilians to death with fire that burns clean to the bone. Lovely. UK are using the stuff too, but with the same 'only for smoke' excuse the Americans tried. [Details] [Details]
  • Crime statistics. No agenda, for once - just some numbers. Inform yourselves, so that when you rant unintelligably you may sound intelligent. [Details]
  • Walmart told to not be so bloody silly [Details]

> Gaming

  • Magic the editor. Fun for being daft for a while. [Download]
  • Combine it with the auto-generator [Destroy]
  • Decker (mmmmultilink!) Again, yes, but it's still small and fun. [Download]
  • A game in the clouds. In a night dress. [Download]
  • A computer made out of the game of life? [Destroy]
  • Springy thingies! [Destroy]
  • Ravenblack. A kind of a game. Magical duelling with complex grammar. [Details]
  • Did I predict that punkbuster was the start of a wave of bad things? I think I did... [Details]

> Tech

> Stuff

  • Baen updated with a couple of books. Not so good, so no link.
  • ASCII art [Display]
  • More than you ever wanted to know about world religions, A-Z. I chose Z. [Details]
  • Gorrilaz videos [Destroy] [Destroy]
  • Would we know 'life but not as we know it' if we saw it? [Details]
  • Freely distributable music. Quite a lot of it is very good. [Destroy]
  • Other than places like Baen, where do words come from? [Details]
  • Let irfanview handle your fonts. [Download]
  • Bigass list of names. [Details]
  • The worst and the best. [Details]
  • Teen titans. Being given away. Fun. Also, arguably, awful. [Details]

> Humour

  • Intelligent design. The debate. [Details]
  • Another looming resource crisis! [Details]
  • World chess boxing. No, not putting chess sets into boxes, although that probably exists somewhere too. [Details]
  • An eBay auction of doom. The humour is, mainly, that anyone is daft enough to risk online auctions at all. [Details]
  • Come not near to me, for I am saner than thou. [Details]
  • Good place for a museum, that. Handy for the shops. [Details]
  • What? But I like banning! Ban banning banning! [Details]
  • You thought that MI6 having a website was odd? [Destroy]
  • You'd think they'd appreciate any tourism they can get. [Details]
  • Llama llama truck. Huh? [Destroy]
  • Forwarded by proxies of the mad bee lady (like the mad cat lady, but buzzier) Run away! [Display]
  • On the age of nations. [Details]
  • I am never going to be able to top that headline. [Details]
  • So if your cat has driven your crazy, try panexa. [Details]

> Comics

  • SSDD : CC derivative works license, I assume. [Display]
  • Suburban jungle : I KNEW I hadn't dreamt up that phrase. [Display]
  • Bob gets blunt (trauma) [Details]
  • A use for spam. Apophenia. [Display]
  • Penny and aggie. Drama queens and mad minds. [Display]
  • Cyber digital infection. Interesting and slightly dark. Interesting (read bad) art style. [Display]
  • Hate the Catball and clown girl. [Display]
  • Discordia. Awesome cosmic power. Itty bitty attention span. [Display]
  • Ozy and millie attempt accuracy. [Display]
  • Oh yes. Kill it. Kill the one in openoffice too, please. (And damnit, make those toolbars dock and be smaller!) [Display]

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