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Month: April, 2005

It’s good to still have mysteries

30 April, 2005 (22:14) | Bizarre | No comments

Proving yet again that we can still be struck dumb by something in nature we have ther mysterious case of the exploding toads
On the grassy banks of Hamburg’s newly-dubbed Pond of Death, Werner Smolnik is surveying the aftermath of amphibian Armageddon.
Hundreds of blackened and dismembered corpses litter the ground, barely recognisable as the bodies of [...]

Life as a guy

29 April, 2005 (13:05) | Humor | No comments

A “bitter film” by Don Hertzfeldt
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This is just so wonderful

28 April, 2005 (19:52) | Miscellaneous | 3 comments

60 years late the holy grail of all birders in North America has been reached. The Ivory Billed Woodpecker has been sighted again. Next to sighting a Passenger Pigeon this is it for birders. For 60 years it has been assumed this wonderful creation has been extinct. Let’s hope there is sufficient breeding population to [...]

Instant Messages

28 April, 2005 (15:42) | Humor | No comments

I only use instant message type programs (ICQ, MS Messenger etc) at work to communicate with different departments. Here’s why:
The Legend of BloodNinja
QDB: Top 100 Quotes
You just never know where that “private” conversation is going to show up
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The arrogance of Man and the dangerous conservative

27 April, 2005 (20:52) | Political | No comments

There is no more important science and field of study than the environment. Destroy the environment and everything dies. That the ecosphere is a connected web of life where damage done in one place ripples out throughout the ecosphere to affect the whole is both on the surface patently obvious and in the lab [...]

STV in action

27 April, 2005 (19:50) | Political | No comments

If you are curious as to how STV works and what the results of an election using might look like check out the CBC Radio’s STV Ice Cream Election
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George’s Boyfriend

26 April, 2005 (18:59) | Political | 1 comment

Oh look Bush finally comes out of the closet

Now we can understand all the gay bashing. It’s just a simple case of repression and misdirection. So OK George it’s all out in the open now and I hope Laura is OK with it all. I’m sure all the neocons and right wing whackos won’t even [...]

Unbelievable? Sadly no.

26 April, 2005 (15:54) | Political | 1 comment

Our great glorious premier sold his, and his party’s, soul to industry for $6.7M smackeroonies, the vast majority of funds raised by his party. Of course he paid them back, with all kinds of legislation designed to screw Joe Average and reward Mr. Business. Little did he suspect though that this might come back and [...]

Cockpit Resource Management

26 April, 2005 (10:05) | Humor | 1 comment

This one’s for you Stu
The scene is sometime in the old era when cockpits had round dials plus flight engineers and navigators. The crusty old-timer captain is breaking in a brand new navigator.
The captain opens his briefcase, pulls out a .38 and rests it on the glare panel. He asks the navigator, [...]

Journal of Doubt

25 April, 2005 (17:29) | Political | No comments

I meant to post this yesterday after checking to see if he was writing again and discovering that indeed he is and with his usual insightfulness. Who might you ask am I referring to? Well Matt over at Journal of Doubt of course. After a lengthy hiatus he’s back and taking apart the Pope and [...]

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