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While skimming BBC News Online this afternoon, I noticed a story headlined Latrine deaths over Kenyan cell phone. Turns out this student dropped her mobile into a pit latrine in Mombasa after paying a wee visit, and she offered 1,000 shillings (US$13) reward for its recovery — a coupla more statistics: the phone cost 2,000…

Sorry, I had to blag this from Paul … Separated At Birth? Infamous Porn Star Ron Jeremy Arrested Al Qaeda Leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Osama obviously needs some high rollin’ types to grease the wheels of the war against the infidels …

Yes, you read that right, a traffic warden gave a bus a parking ticket while it was stopped at a bus stop picking up and dropping off passengers. If this doesn’t show what a bureaucratic and officious society we live in, I don’t know what does. Footnote: the ticket later got rescinded after the bus…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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 🙂

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