Month: January 2007
It isn’t just David Beckham who gets the wrong foreign characters tattooed on him. Hanzi Smatter is dedicated to showing examples of disasterous mistranscriptions of Chinese characters in…
Discalaimers – you know that paragraph or two of legalese you get at the foot of emails emanating from big companies (“Nothing in this email shall be construed…
Waking The Dead used to be one of my favourite TV crimes shows. Not any more. The latest series has just got too silly for words. The first…
.’X-Day is coming!’ The Blessed Day when the Alien Sex Goddesses shall at last arrive on Earth and proceed with THE RUPTURE! All card-carrying, Truly Ordained, PAID UP…
From his blog: Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, “What happens after death?” The Roshi replied, “I don’t know.” Wavy protested, “But you’re a Zen Master!” “Yes,”…
…trying to get the new Oakleaf Circle site together. The navigation is proving the most difficult bit; I’m having a vertical flyout menu, which would ordinarily be pretty…
…and lo, there was light – all over the bleedin’ house, when the power finally came on at 2.55 this afternoon. After 44 hours of no electricity, when…