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I'm off for a couple of days
There will probably not be any posts on here for a few days (until next Tuesday probably) as I'll be in Northern Ireland seeing my mother-in-law(!).
Please play nice & try not to break the site but call back next week for usual service to be resumed. If you're really bored in my absence then please check out the archives or click on the Random Blog button on the right of this post.

Follow-up: Silent Bob's partner ain't dead
Jason Mewes has resurfaced and apparently henever went away - he's just been n LA. It's an easy mistake to make I guess.

Canterbury Parking Clowns site is down too!
Not only is the thinkofthechildren site down but another old favourite, the Canterbury Parking Clowns website which has already survived being closed down once before, has now been shut down again thanks to police intimidation. This is starting to get scary now.

Make your own Dubya speech
The funny thing is no matter what hilarious thing you get this virtual bushto say, the real one is guaranteed to say something funnier.

Holy Lego Smoke Batman!
Here's what your lego men get up to when you're not looking. Hmm, wondered where that's gone!

Arcata Eye Newspaper : Police Log 09-24-02
More from my favourite online Police log, the Arcata Eye (& for the fourth or fifth time, yes, this is a genuine police log of real events in a small town in the USA, the guy who writes it up is a genius).

Saturday, September 14 12:11 a.m. They may not have understood much about empathy, compassion and celebrating diversity of opinion, but those tempestuous boyos at 11th and D streets did know that physical mass, properly leveraged by digital extremities in the form of a well-aimed baseball bat and amplified by kinetic energy, could create quite an imact – psychological or otherwise. A suspect was arrested and Housed in a Pink place utterly devoid of baseball equipment.

How much for some peace & quiet?
Wombles man pays six figure sum in legal payout over silent record. I'm sure I could have got a better title for this but my brain has gone slow this afternoon.

Blog from the Bog
Next time I'm at a festival, I'll be happy in the knowledge that someone has beaten me to the World's first broadband portaloo. Weirdos!

The sound of data screaming
IBM have this handy guide for their engineers of hard drive noises. I'm sure 'Head stuck to platter' is not a sound you really want to hear!

Things to make and do.
This is a great link. This guy has a load of projects that he's done (most of which are fairly deadly). So if you have a soldering iron and want to know how to make your own lava lamp or LED chandelier then click here.

Operation Arab-killin' Butterfly
You know how there are naming conventions for hurricanes & military operations (and indeed in the workplace, at my work we have Project Jedi, Project Peter Pan and project Eternity currently) well, here's a far more logical way for getting American Military Operation Names.

Fetish Map
Crikey! Even I didn't know about some of these deviances - I mean what is a macrophile? I thought it was something geeky not freaky! Have a look at this fetish map and see who you're related to. (This link is mostly SFW but the rest of the site isn't)

Weirdness
Now here's something freaky. Just move your mouse about for strange things.

New Google toy
Sorry for the geek slant to today's posts so far but it's one of those days. Anyway, Google have a new feature in beta for you to try our - this time it's a News search engine. Give it a try by typing something topical like 'earthquake' and see - it should give you related news stories that are currently relevant.

Sunbelt Software Silly Putty Task Force
In order to answer the eternal question that has dogged geeks for at least a decade, namely, "What would happen if you had a giant ball of Silly Putty & dropped it off a building", Sunbelt Software (who do the W2kNews site) decided to form the Silly Putty Task Force to find out.

Want to know how the RIA(Ass) webby was hacked?
After the Rec Ind Ass of America had their website hacked (as previously reported on here), it took them until some clever Estonians pointed out how they were hacked for them to fix it. Turns out it was easy to do - let's hope they've had enough of public humiliation for the time being and leave the p2p networks alone.

Where is Jason Mewes?
Jason Mewes (Jay of 'Silent Bob and Jay' fame) has now been missing for 10 months. Dead in a ditch with a needle in his arm or hiding from the law? Take your pick.

New Threads
Gonna get me some natty 80s Tees.

Damnation: The Game
If you thought you'd seen the back of Doom then this online adventure should prove that there's life in the old game yet.