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Snippets » April 2007

• the art of being incompetent at an unwanted task → or how to avoid work you don’t want to do #
• what would your daemon be? → golden compass movie thingiebob. requires flash. Gah. #
• game to help foreign students get over culture shock → drinking, snogging, random acts of gun violence. Right. A game. #
• Turkish citizens call for a secular state → separation of religion and state. that’s crazy talk, right there. #
• find a unix command and reinvent it for the web → Pipes is more like cat and old school redirects, isn’t it? #
• average everything → documentary on Channel 4 tonight #
• Visit Gun Town, USA. Firearms mandatory for residents → suck it libs. low low crime rate. #
• lolcat language explained → way to overanalyze it, dude #
• wow. just wow. misogynistic or merely pragmatic? I can’t tell → even the comment thread following is interesting #
• fastfood, advertising versus reality → I’d still eat almost all of the “reality” section. I am a sad junk food guzzling excuse for humanity #
• good time atheists → or so the strawman goes #
• why Arsenal doesn’t want American “investment” → I lol-ed at the first comment. Still laughing. #
• what are the odds? → Virginia Tech student also escaped the Columbine shooting 8 years earlier. #
• sex theme park. yes, it’s err.. real → because groping plastic mannequins groped by millions of others before you sounds like exactly the thing you should be doing. yeah. #
• the ideal girlfriend → craigslist never ceases to amuse and amaze #
• how many styrofoam cups are equivalent to a ceramic or plastic mug? → answer: about a thousand. I still wouldn’t give up my ornate ceramic tankard for stupid styrofoam though. #
• just like they do on the discovery channel → bunny suits not provided #
• great debut albums and signature tunes → Gah. He mentioned Jeremy. #
• having an orgy is safer than driving → unless the orgy is in your car. and you’re the designated driver… or something #
• Gaim is now called Pidgin → in the long tradition of Windows Commander -> Total Commander and the like. I like the name Pidgin though #
• 10 worst rap album covers ever made → ok, so the KKK reference was over the top but the others are … merely bad, not horrific trainwreck material. #
• life in rural mongolia - in pictures → nothing too surprising in there, but still interesting #
• lighttpd - the basics → lack of decent windows support hinders experimentation in this interesting alternative. for now. #
• not about motorcycles, not about blogging → generally applicable, I guess #
• another one for the taboo quiz → rapist of a ten year old girl is acquitted on “exceptional grounds”. And that’s just the tame part of the story #
• hackergotchi → because the world really needs more pictures like this. #
• Serenity is the top Sci-fi movie → online polls, unreliable blah blah blah whatever. Not sure about beating out Star Wars but hey, I’m not arguing #
• fascinating piece on Gordon Ramsay → his bark is worse than his bite. most of the time. either that or he’s got an awesome PR firm #
• charcoal? why I get that all the time → peanuts that have spent too long in the oven and then become a delicacy. serendipity? why, yes. #
• The Fools Gold Loaf sammich → one hollowed out loaf of warm bread, one jar of peanut butter, one jar of jelly (jam?) and one pound of bacon. Sounds yum. #
• Italian is now the national language of Italy → Suck it, northern league. #
• 10 things your boss hates about you → slightly tongue in cheek. I hope. #

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