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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 - "Deatils day! Happy merrymas all"

I'm sorry, I didn't want to have to abort to this - but I've left it too long already and I'm going off to my grans for Christmas now.
Let's have some quotes first, that's always nice.
Intransigent Quadruped
like Michael J. Fox, but evil, and not a spaz.
Basic immunity to standard law enforcement (common, frequent) 25 pts.
What immortal hand or eye framed your awful G.U.I.?
Sciurus Rex
Firefox is still not as popular a web browser as Christina Aguilera.
Money kitty!
The combat system is an interesting mix of clay mineralogy and dog training.
{sic} Charting teh rise of teh much disputed meritocracy
May mice ritually flog you with nettles.
Two rabbit ears short of an antennae.
Irrational belief is one of the cornerstones of our civilisation
Snowflakes are Winter butterflies.
I hate our ninja.
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Posted by Vitenka at 5:05 AM GMT [Link]

Monday, December 20, 2004 - "How did you manage to spell that with a 9?"

> Science/Tech

The recently discovered Comet Machholz will be visible in the sky with the naked eye for the next couple of months, getting brighter towards early January. Samuel George of the University of Birmingham Astrosoc has put up a helpful page about the comet and how to see it. [Details]
Columbian druglords have created a coca plant that's resistant to herbicides, which may eventually render the U.S.'s cropdusting programme to kill the plants useless - or even make it helpful, as a free weedkiller. This could result in resurging levels of cocaine on the streets of Western countries - a Bad Thing. [Details]
Lucky the Soviet Union fell when it did, or we might be dealing with laser space battle stations by now. Well, possibly - they'd never have gotten it working. [Details]
Who would want to live in a cardboard house, no matter how environmentally obsessed they were? [Details]
Cleverer traffic lights are well overdue. Cleverer drivers would be better, though. [Details]
Dubai is the unlikely site for the proposed construction of a new skyscraper which will be the tallest building in the world by far. [Details]
NASA's annual publication "Spinoff" is out for 2004. It details all the techologies that NASA's work has helped other organisations to create or advance. [Details]
> Geek

Another year, another American with too many Christmas lights and a clever system for people to control them over the web. Pretty, though. [Destroy]
The Babelfish Retranslator - of fantastische not obstante a simple idea. It makes examination of a sentence, tradu it in one another language tradu it then stops backwards in the source language. To long in the way the fold it it zerfleischt it sustenance terriblly as you can see. It for a pair of the times with different attitudes tries the company.* [Destroy]
The ten most persistent (and irritating) computer bugs around. [Details]
Now you too can speak the lingo of a corporate zombie! [Details]
"Star Trek: Nemesis", an awful, awful movie, has the piss rightly ripped out of it. Excellent. [Display]
I'm lead to believe that this is genuinely some mad French guy's CV. In Flash movie form. [Destroy]
Would you call buying a chainsaw Nintendo controller taking the "Resident Evil" experience a little too far? [Details]
Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer: The Musical! Courtesy of Need to Know. [Details]
> Stuff

Remember the subservient chicken, which turned out to be a Burger King ad campaign? Well, it was only a matter of time... Play with the virtual bartender. [Destroy]
The Plain English Awards are here once again. Poor Boris Johnson - it makes perfect sense to him, it's just that none of the other idiots can work it out. [Details]
...Actually, I have to say that I disagreed with their "Foot in Mouth" award last year, to Donald Rumsfeld. What he said made perfect sense, and explained his point in a simple and easy to understand way. [Details]
Zefrank educates us on how to reply to irritating people without getting fired OR going against your principles - at the same time! [Destroy]
...He's got some really good stuff on his site, in fact. I vaguely remember some of the older videos like the advice one, probably from b3ta newsletters years ago. [Details]
Can man live only only beer, instead of water? That'd be a no, then. [Display]
A cool and tricksy little online art piece - just keep zooming in and in on the picture. [Destroy]

Posted by Stormcaller at 11:47 PM GMT [Link]