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September 30, 2003

Anyone fancy a jelly baby?

Doctor Who. New series. BBC 1. 2005.

Awesome!

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September 29, 2003

“the tale of your company’s managing director touching up a donkey is a guaranteed path to promotion”

Top Tips for Bloggers

(Via Expecting To Fly)

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September 25, 2003

paedophilia is this season’s terrorism

The press seem to be getting themselves in a bit of a lather over Microsoft’s decision to close all their msn chat rooms (except in a handful of countries). What they all seem to be missing is that the only countries that will continue to have access to msn chat rooms are those that msn subscriptions are available, i.e. money making countries. For the rest of the world it is simply an easy way to kill of a money losing enterprise, and yet somehow they have also managed to get the level of publicity (as so called ‘news‘ items) that money just could not buy.

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September 23, 2003

children never listen to their parents

An emailed question from Rich, my house mate.

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who said this:

“To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero … assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.”
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Give up?
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September 19, 2003

Do ya wanna fight?

Virtua Pikey

(Via Popbitch)

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September 17, 2003

I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite.

sexysusan: I start unbuttoning your shirt.

J-Dogg: Rhinoceruses don’t were shirts.

sexysusan: No, your not really a Rhinocerus silly, it’s just part of the game.

J-Dogg: Rhinoceruses don’t play games. They fuking charge your ass.

(via Metafilter)

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September 16, 2003

ICFP comp

The International Conference on Functional Programming have just completed running their annual programming contest for this year and what an interesting challenge it was. Give a simple mathematical model for a race car and a handful of tracks the challenge was to direct the car round the track in the shortest lap time (measured in time steps). The biggest factor in this competition was that teams only had three days in which to complete and submit their results.

The winner was a lone programmer with 16 dual xeon machines though the judges also awarded a prize to a team who had a novel approach of computer assisted manual driving (and were still close to the winners with their lap times).

(Via /.)

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September 11, 2003

today two years ago

Almost a retort to Matt’s post and an interesting read: What You Think You Know About Sept. 11 … … but don’t.

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September 9, 2003

September 11th: 22 Unanswered Questions

“I believe that it is important not to approach 9/11 as the possibility of some grand conspiracy, but a possible conspiracy of some sort nevertheless.”

(via Metafilter)
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September 3, 2003

The Strangest Robbery. Ever.

Authorities were in their fifth day Monday of investigating the case of a pizza deliveryman who was killed when explosives strapped to his neck detonated after he robbed a bank.

(via Metafilter)

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September 1, 2003

spam? {an update}

My brother points out that Wired tracked down the originator of the time traveller spam, and that at least one enterprising recipient has set themselves up as an online second hand flux capacitor shop.

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