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Employee of the Month
Bored, at home, on a Friday night, burning cds & downloading stuff..
So I did a Google Image Search for "Employee of the Month" (don't ask why - it was just a random phrase) which lead me to discover Mavis Glutch & Gretchen Smunkley. I kid you not.

Bush Goes Ape
Finally, we have proof of the missing link - it's George Bush himself!

chunkylover53
Thousands of Simpsons fans sent an email to Homer Simpson after his Net
address appeared in a recent cartoon - and recieved a reply from the man
himself. In the episode, Homer gave his email address to a private detective as Chunkylover53@aol.com. Fans sending mail to the address have been getting replies from Homer (actually Mat Selman, one of the show's writers).
Here's an example response;

From: Chunkylover53@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:04:04 EST
Subject: Re: hrm
To: wolverine
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138

Dear Nerd,
I didn't even know the internet was on computers these days, let alone some kind of electric mail dealie. Please send all future letters (and beer) to:
642 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield USA then a zip code.

Praise Jebus!

-- Homer Simpson

(thanks for this one Steve)

Spybot - Search & Destroy
Nice Ad-aware-style spyware buster called Spybot - Search & Destroy - worked well on my machine & didn't break anything. It's worth running a program like this every so often - even if you don't delete the cookies & programs, you'll at least be aware of what is on your machine.

Rubbish Monkey
Anyone who knows me should be well aware of my love of all things monkey-like (& you're probably all slightly disturbed by it too) - I've found someone else more obsessed with monkeys, in particular drawings of rubbish monkeys.

Ugly Midis Especially for BigOl, here's a site with some of the worst midi files I've ever heard. They really are bad.

Home Depot/Despot
Compare & Contrast.
Excellent!

London Riot Re-enactment Society
Amusing idea for all you would-be anachists - the London Riot Re-enactment Society. It makes history fun.

Naked eBay guy returns
Remember naked eBay guy who was selling a kettleand forgot that it has a reflective surface? Well, he's back & this time he's selling a tv. You might have to look more closely this time though.

Geese clothes
Clothes for geese - for all seasons, holidays and occasions.

Bedroom Adventure Gear
'Bedroom Adventure Gear' sounds like the kind of specialist gear you'd need to enter a typical students' room to wade through the discarded condoms, overflowing ashtrays and piles of dirty laundry. The reality is almost as unsavoury as it refers to the Liberator® Shapes Bedroom Adventure Gear or to you and me - a couple of lumps of expensive foam in a cheap cover that they hope you'll shag yer missus on.(contains some NSFW images)

Justice?
This story came to me via the popbitch newlsetter which is normally funny and irreverant but the story of Chad Wegkamp's attempts at bank robbery in order to get enough money for an operation on his scrotum is heart-rending and highlights some obvious flaws in the American justice system. Most shocking is the failure to take extraneous circumstances into account & the "I don't make the rules..." attitude of the Chief Prosecutor.
Added to all that, the guy tried to cut open his own scrotum! Ouch.

Soldiers Banking On War
Servicemen in the USA have been making more than the usual amounts of deposits at the bank recently. Not the kind of deposits that you or I would expect though.

Bush in Nigerian spam scandal
George 'Dubya' 'Bubby' Bush Jr has inspired a superb spam email based on the Nigerian scam spam (surely by now, you'll have all received one of these in your inbox - I got 5 last week!).

Possum Fur Nipple Warmers
Possum Fur Nipple Warmers - They're furry, fun & functional.
(& wierd)

Roomba Hoover Sod your Dyson - I want a roomba - look at it action. It's functional & looks like an R2D2 reject.

Human Piste
Or:
Don't even eat the white snow!

Mirror, mirror...
Just in case I get too many visitors to this site, I've got me a ."mirror site. Get your own mirror from here (unbelievably, the rest of that site seems to be a russian mail order bride site!)

Think the RIAA are bad?
If you think the RIAA (Recording Industry ASS of America) are bad then just be thankful that you don't live in Finland!

Ha-Ha!
Microsoft were caught out this weekend by the Slammer SQL attack after they failed to install their own patch!
And they say there's no such thing as bad publicity - their latest marketing scheme is called "Trustworthy Computing".
Hmmmm.

Busta's Backstage Pass
1) Moet champagne.
2) A bucket of KFC.
3) Rough Rider Ribbed condoms.
It must be Busta Rhymes' backstage rider.

Wanna buy a streamlined car?
Bit of a bugger for going round corners but it's a record-breaker anyway. It's cheap on petrol too, all you need is 6,120 C-cell rechargeable batteries & a portable power supply to charge them all up.

Personal Robot System
I love this robot from Thinkgeek - it's pointless but still cool. Best thing is that you can program it so that it recognises your cd covers, all you have to do is wave a cd cover at it's camera and it will start playing the cd.
Shame it's not telepathic though.

The Skyscraper Page I'm not sure what use SkyscraperPage.com is but some of the guys at work think it's excellent - I'm merely passing on their recommendation. If anyone actually has a use for it, please let me know.

Elite Shipyard
Remember the old BBC/Archimedes game Elite (or should that be 1337now?). Some people remember it far too well. This guy has built a shipyard for all the old space craft in the game - it settled an arguement in our office about whether all the different versions of Elite used the same ships. (yeah, I know but what do you expect when there are about 20 programmers here!)

Masturbate for Peace
Don't smitten, Kill a kitten.
Masturbate for Peace - : Using self-loving to end war.
erm, ok...(be right back...)

Potato Bazooka!
Those pesky kids are at it again. I remember that we used to have fun with spud guns when I was a kid, but we didn't cause anything like the trouble these kids are with their potato guns. A quick search shows that people are serious about their vegetable weaponry these days!

Search B4stard
The rudest, most foul-mouthed search engine in the world has to be Search B4stard . Guess what? It's NSFW but it is amsuing.

Fetus Soap
Fetus soap on a rope - It's like the son you never had. Perfect gift for the person who has everythign (except a fetus).
Anyone tell me what the difference is between a fetus & a foetus? Is it just the usual American vs British (proper) spelling?

Ask Ozzy
Got a burning need to ask Ozzy a question? He is, after all, the fountain of all knowledge (maybe). Well, why not Ask Ozzy - you're sure to get a decent answer & it's better than a magic 8-ball.

Stereotypes How much do you believe in stereotypes? This site makes you think about your preconceptions by mixing photos of people together.
(sorry if this is a repeat)

The Desk -- LEGO
First lego link for a while - this time a lesson in making sure you read the smallprint in contracts before you sign them otherwise you could end up paying for a very expensive desk for your employees.

Monkey Magic
Woo & Yay!
For the first time in 17years, Monkey will be screened on UK terrestrial television. That's gotta be a good thing.

Printed organs
Last week, news reports started surfacing about research that has been done into 'printing' live organs using inkjet printers. Kind of scary but fascinating. Imagine being able to make a liver or kidney using a modifed printer.

Terry Tate - Office Linebacker
Over the pond, they've just had the Superbowl. The highlight of this every year seems not to be the game but the adverts inbetween it - one particularly funny one this year was the Reebok one. Made me laugh anyway.

The State of the Union Address Drinking Game
Tomorrow/Today (depending on your timezone) is Dubya's State of the Union address, so why not get some beer in and play the State of the Union Address Drinking Game & if he says, "I admit it - I wasn't democratically voted into this country and am not the rightful leader of my people, I am, in fact, nothing more than a dictator who bought my presidency with lies & money" - then I'll buy every single one of you a drink. Fair?

Cool Sculptings
Remember the film Cool Runnings? In an amusing 'Truth is stranger than fiction' twist, a team of people from Kenya want to enter a snow sculpting competition in Quebec despite only one of the team having actually seen snow before.
(nb: yes, I do know Cool Runnings was based on a true story but it sounded better this way)

BAE taking the p1ss
After BAE recently announced they were getting rid of 1000 jobs in the UK, you'd have thought that they wouldn't need to advertise for someone to take the p1ss.

Thai Kock needed
Although I'm probably overqualified for this job, I still don't think I'd want it!

Wanna play WarGames?
You must all remember the classic movie 'War Games'. At the time it seemed really cool & hi-tech but now seems a very unlikely simplified version of hacking. Well, actually not! It seems that according to this report, anyone can hack into the american dept. of defense network - you can register your own .mil domain (www.grom.mil?) or merely get admin privileges on an other network.
Of course I will warn you that it's generally a bad idea to attempt to launch nuclear missiles without permission first. I'm sure George wouldn't mind ;o)

Redneck Limo
So, you've made a fortune selling beaver & possum skins to rich people who think it's mink. You want to marry your 14 year old cousin but need something really impressive to get her to the wedding in - then why not buy a redneck limo? You just can't fail in a sensible car like that!