Monthly Archives: January 2007

No Tats For Me…..

By Val | Published: January 28, 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 tattoos. For instance, pity the poor (Welsh?) bloke who proudly tells the world that he menstruates well, or the Brazilian who wants [...]
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The Anti-Disclaimer

By Val | Published: January 24, 2007
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 blah blah…..”) – can become quite ridiculously large. An 1100-word example was recently spotted. Writer Wendy Grossman has therefore come up with an Anti-Disclaimer, which you are [...]
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TV Crimes & Misdemeanours….

By Val | Published: January 22, 2007
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 story in the new series was some daft tale about nuns, Travellers, hallucingenics and a 2,000 year-old “Druid cult” (sic) that appeared to [...]
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Time to book your hols….

By Val | Published: January 12, 2007
.’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 SubGenius Ministers shall be SNATCHED UP into the Cosmos to spend Eternity (or at least the Journey to Planet X) engaging in a VAST ORGAZMONIC RITUAL OF [...]
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Robert Anton Wilson ceases to live…

By Val | Published: January 12, 2007
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,” the Roshi admitted, “but I’m not a dead Zen Master.”
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Still at work….

By Val | Published: January 8, 2007
…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 simple to do – if it wasn’t for blasted IE6, which cannot handle the “li:hover” element without a whole lot of hacking. So it was with considerable [...]
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Let There be Light!

By Val | Published: January 2, 2007
…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 the storms on sunday cut power to most of the region. We’d just about used up all our candles, I’d done every bloody suduku puzzle in [...]
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