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March 24, 2008

"[Bulgarian President] Georgi Parvanov Bulgaria: worked [for the secret police] under the code name Gotse". snigger

May 22, 2007

Andrew Marr: I do radio, telly, books and newspapers because I'm not sure which of those is going to disappear first

March 7, 2007

A Kyrgyz MP wants to legalise opium, and hence pay off the country's debt within 2 years. Probably because CSIS has been suggesting the same thing for Afghanistan.

February 6, 2007

Another reason to head for Archangelsk: see the 10-storey wooden folly

December 8, 2006

Hard Rock Cafel sold to an American Indian tribe.

London tornado: Scotland Yard are on the case (RU). Satire from the Idiot.

November 18, 2006

The Onion: a better pick-me-up than 10,000 inane depression-help websites.

November 9, 2006

Borat banned in Russia

November 3, 2006

Cryptography, from Eve's point of view (XKCD)

October 18, 2006

How to cite graffiti

October 12, 2006

Zizek for Weddings: because nothing says 'I love you' like a line from the world's sweatiest theorist.

September 22, 2006

Odd things you find: Enochian chess. Yet another 'huh?'

July 2, 2006

If I can't get away with 'Allo Allo remade in Kirkuk, how about Casablanca in Umm Qasr?

July 1, 2006

Bonkers film - Dan wants:

With megawatts of power coursing through his body, he discharges his surplus energy by playing high voltage rock 'n' roll with his electric guitar. He spends his days looking for lost lizards in the alleyways of Tokyo, and his nights fighting the reptilian part of his brain that is making him increasingly violent. A shadowy figure named Thunderbolt Buddha soon surfaces and begins following Dragon Eye about town.

May 18, 2006

O RLY: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.Hilarious, but perhaps only because all over-geeky humour is.

May 10, 2006

Too funny not to propagate: fisticuffs in the Iraqi parliament over a phone ringtone.

April 28, 2006

Center for Tactical Magic; I think I'm in love.

April 25, 2006

All roads lead to danah,; a frivolous google for "land of the livid" (because it's a fantastic phrase) leads to a two-year-old account of her going through finals. Hehe!

April 10, 2006

Gold-farming has led to anti-Chinese prejudice in WoW. This does happen in the RuneScape community as well, but for some reason isn't so common.

March 30, 2006

The US will test 700-tonne explosive in Nevada this June. I can see this being a tourist draw: "come to Vegas, see the mushroom cloud".