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Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 6
This one is for Gill. What do you send to someone who has everything? Mouse RADAR – The World’s Smartest Mousetrap “The cleanest, kindest, smartest mousetrap yet. Problems with mice? Let RADAR take care of them. RADAR stands for Rodent Activated Detection And Riddance — which describes exactly what it does. We identify rodent runs, […]
Some Fun and Fascinating Stuff
Lords of the Logistic (Gallery – only in Asia)
One For Gill
Very funny, in spite of (or maybe because of) my not being a tremendous fan of either World Of Warcraft or South Park. Well worth the mega download for the full screen version of this special South Park episode.
Just Don’t Do It Again
Making plans
This week seems to be rollover week and I generally only buy lottery tickets for rollovers. The Euromillions fund is at £54,000,000. I have splashed out and bought a whole two tickets. More or less guaranteed to win then. Also a triple rollover on the UK lottery, of £20,000,000, I have bought another two tickets […]
“a terrible indictment of society”
Nice is cutting its costs at the expense of the weakest.
Operation Iraqi Freedom
The Times reports: “A new study by public health researchers estimates that up to 600,000 Iraqi people -” nearly 1 in 40 – have died violently since the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003.” Aside from the dismal standard of English in this news article, which goes on to say that the error […]
Dancing Barbie meets Cyberman
Was the headline to an article in The Scotsman*. Great headline, great news site. I will be sad to see the back of the Scots when they go fully independent. Well most of them, anyway. The BBC has a crap headline, but does provide pictures in its article In Pictures: Top 12 toys for Christmas. […]
This Reading Thing II
I cannot remember not being able to read. I know that I could read by the time I started school (I went a term early so this would have been while I was still only four), the reason I know this is that one of my first memories of school is of being told to […]