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Miscellaneous
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07.19.07Flying Ant Day - ReportedEveryone knows that on one day every year - usually the day after a muggy spell - the flying ants emerge to mate and swish around and get tangled in my hair. (This last aspect is, I expect, a side-benefit of their outing, and not a core motivator for them.) In these pages I have previously hypothesised that the main point of keeping a blog is to be able to track the emergence of these little feckers, and therefore, y'know, make some spurious claims about climate change based on the data. Building on this theory, and on data collected in previous years, please ...
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06.25.07Complete that lyricSo, for the last few weeks, I've had a fragment of a pastiche song lyric floating in my head as I sit idly on the tube, but haven't managed to get any further with it. In the spirit of harnessing our collective wisdom/crowd-sourcing, I thought maybe you might be able to help. The tune: Coldplay's In My Place (video link) The lyrics so far:On MySpace, On MySpace Were contacts I couldn't erase Just get lost Oh yeah Well, I said I hadn't got very far. Over to you.
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06.22.07Feeling Festive?So in 2001, I wrote a post about how you could recreate your very own Glastonbury festival experience in the comfort of your own home. Given that six and a half years have passed, and things have moved on a bit, and in honour of the festival's arrival this weekend, I thought it might be worth looking at updating it again. So, building on the previous post, and without further ado, here's DIY GLASTONBURY 2007 Continue Reading...
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05.29.07links for 2007-05-29Flags By Colours Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag Click on an image to reveal the flag (tags: flags visualization design color art colour world)
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05.28.07links for 2007-05-28Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea -- The Truth About Wireless Devices (tags: humor comics blog science cartoon Funny)
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05.23.07I see famous people. Everywhere.I can't help it. I'm not a big celeb-follower, and I tend to think that I wouldn't know most modern celebrities (soap stars, pop acts, etc) if I was squished up against them in a crowd of people calling their name. Famous people (as distinct from celebrities) are another matter again - some I recognise but can't name. Some I can even go as far as placing in a particular context (TV show? Sports? A film?), but if they're not in that context when I see them, I'm left hopelessly clamming. I'm constantly being teased in our household for referring ...
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05.23.07links for 2007-05-23someecards.com: when you care enough to hit send Nice selection of funny ecards. I like the simple designs and the rather cynical approach. Favourite one? "You've been distant since the sexual harassment..." (tags: ecards humor funny cards email)
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05.16.07links for 2007-05-16Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous Seven tips on how to run a successful community. (tags: Community tips social howto moderation management) Zerofootprint Zerofootprint is a not-for-profit that combines the best financial engineering, environmental engineering, social networking tools and business intelligence to create products and services that help people reduce their environmental footprint. (tags: environment green Sustainability community carbon products architecture calculator social) How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community Angry people looking for fights will inevitably try to poison successful Internet communities. Columnist Cory Doctorow looks at ways to remove the poison without killing the discussion too. (tags: community trolls social Blogging ...
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05.12.07links for 2007-05-12Salon.com People | How to say you're sorry: A refresher course These days, apologies are everywhere in the national and international news. Yet few nations or individuals know how to make one. (I posted this originally about 6 years ago, I think, but it bears repeating) (tags: language etiquette apology Community) Ethics in Gaming 6.0 See especially his brief aside about apologising - different styles of apology, ranked according to how good they are. (tags: ethics apology games gaming)
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05.10.07links for 2007-05-10I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? lolcats tagged for your convenience. Ohnoes! (tags: cats humor funny blog animals images geek silly) The VOCO Clock How would you like the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry whispering you awake in a Jeeves-like manner every morning? Well, for £29.95, he's all yours... (tags: clock humor audio stephenfry shopping)
