Archive for October, 2005

It had to happen

Posted at 11:21am on Monday, October 24th, 2005

In a surprising development, UK scientists who have been running tests on a parrot that died in quarantine, to detect whether or not it had the H5N1 flu strain that has killed at least 60 people in Asia have now announced that the bird was in fact “not dead”.

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StarWars: A New GIF

Posted at 8:10am on Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Episode IV as an animated GIF. Nice.
Found at waxy.org

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Look how fucked up this guy is…

Posted at 8:14am on Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

It’s a meta-hug.

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‘I will always remember this summer as a pretty lame one’

Posted at 8:24am on Friday, October 21st, 2005

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FlapArt

Posted at 8:07am on Friday, October 21st, 2005

(And no, it’s not tattooed lady’s bits)

A disease that’s finally curable, 6 week turnaround, strangers are not meat.

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How babies are made

Posted at 7:47am on Friday, October 21st, 2005

How Babies Are Made - this is funny enough in its own right, but it’s made worse by the fact that it’s the book my Mum gave me aged 5 to explain what was going on with that nice Karen lady from next door. I thought I’d erased that beard from my memory a long time ago…

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It was obviously going to be a success

Posted at 2:27pm on Thursday, October 20th, 2005

The question is, was the pain that Walmart went through getting RFID off the ground actually worth the benefits?

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More communist iconography

Posted at 12:22pm on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

This time the Chinese space program.

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Oh Good God

Posted at 2:17pm on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

I wish I’d seen this: New Order play a Joy Division set for John Peel day.

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ASCII kills the cent

Posted at 1:41pm on Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Amazing what international computer standards do to your culture, isn’t it?

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