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April Fools?

The BBC has a round up of almost but not quite April Fools stories. But this one just had to be quoted: Cold war bomb warmed by chickens. Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War. Civil servants at

Going underground

How to behave on the London Underground: practice good Tube etiquette. (link via In the UK, the blog of an Aussie couple who moved to London)

Nonsense on food labels

"Organic sea salt" Salt is a mineral, so it can't be organic because organic stuff comes from organisms. I think they meant to say "natural sea salt" which is better, but it's still plain old sodium chloride, two pretty nasty chemicals if

Blogger Idol Week Six - Movies

Movies that should never be made: * Anything based on a video game, or computer game (e.g. Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat). Just don't go there. * Sequels of movies based on games (e.g. Resident Evil 2) * Battles that pit the evil bad guys from two totally

Church planting

Quote from the Vineyard Leadership Institute intensive on church planting: "The secret of church planting is chocolate." John Mumford, National Director Vineyard Churches UK & Eire (Finished knitting my socks during the first half of John's video lecture on Saturday.)

Microbes

Give your boss an ulcer! Or see what's really in your beer and bread. How can you not love these things! Thinkgeek has some, and Giant Microbes is the original source. Someone give me a cold, I promise to look after it!

Oddities

There was about 2 inches of powdery snow on my car Thursday morning. Going to work, I ended up behind a BMW 745i, probably this year's model. It was covered in snow, all the driver did was turn on the wipers and clear a small square in the

Cardinal Sins of Blogging

It's been a while since I created my list of the Cardinal Sins of Web Design, high time for a new list: the Cardinal Sins of Blogging. These are the content sins, for the design sins, you'll have to go read the full list. For the

BOFH

Start the new year with some BOFH. All your worst IT nightmares incarnated in one sysadmin from Hell. Written by Simon Travaglia of New Zealand. Read, learn, and pray he's not there next time you call the helldesk helpdesk. (NB: BOFH stands for B****** Operator from Hell, PFY

Politically Correct Christmas

(Posted to alumni mailing list, author unknown) Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular

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