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  • Most Inappropriate … Time Limited Offer … Ever </comicbookguy>

    I got spammed with this overnight — now I’m used to receiving random spams that pass through my spam filters (“SpamAssassin,” he cried from the highest rooftop in the land), but what I got was a spam trying to sell me commemorative dollar coins. No big deal, they get papped out all the time. This…

  • “You’re Nicked!” “Erm, I Don’t Think So”

    Tip o’ the hat to me mate Mark from Cisco for this one: turns out there’s a loophole in the (presumably English [and — yes Nic — Welsh]) law which means that a driver caught on a speed camera, who is then sent a penalty notice by post, can elect to return the form saying…

  • Recognise This

    I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it … Pattern Recognition appeared in the post today. New William Gibson books always give me goose bumps, and somehow I always end up listening to Daydream Nation when…

  • “You … Have Been Very Bad, And This Is Your Punishment”

    Danny of ntk reports that [a Big Charity] has asked their members, and their friends, and whoever the hell else they feel like forwarding stuff to, to use the excellent FaxYourMP.com service to (perhaps unintentionally) spam MPs about [Particular Bugbear of Theirs]. FaxYourMP.com rather spectacularly died thanks to the load, but most critically … Basically,…

  • Who’d Have Thought Diablo Could Have Such Power

    More desktop experiences should be like Icon War. Tip o’ the hat to Sam Kington, who is the first person I personally know from my time at Glasgow Uni (or at least confess to know) who has a blog on the go 🙂

  • Definitely Not For Minors

    Sheer class: the video to Tenacious D‘s “Fuck Her Gently” as Flash movie — note that if this were a video recording available for sale or rent in the UK, it’d be rated 18 🙂 — tip o’ the hat to Emily

  • “Getting A Dose Of The Trotts”

    John appears to have pre-empted (or noticed) my shunt to MT, and also the fact I told thechat about it … all I can say is “eat my prefabricated blogging tool, biatch!”

  • Resident (Domestic) Evil …

    Gotta love this … warblogging.com‘s Index of Evil, summarised below with a live graph … Why Bush and Blair aren’t there, I don’t know …

  • s/Blogger/Movable Type/g

    I’ve just migrated my blog from Blogger to Movable Type. With luck, I’ve caught most of the appropriate templates and made everything feel funky 🙂 There will undoubtedly be hiccups — the primary one is that of loss of previous blog comments, but there weren’t many to start with, so no great loss there. If…