Month: December 2006
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Some days my job is just fun. I just spent half an hour helping someone pick out wool to knit a koala suit. What’s it for? The forthcoming Snugglepot and Cuddlepie musical. The designer’s assistant has been in and out over the past couple of days collecting yarn for the costumes. I’m hoping he’ll comp…
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Sweeeet. The Snook’s Halloween Meatcake was added to the official Meatcake Gallery!
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Um, not that I’m sitting at work hitting refresh on the BBC Sports site or anything… but ARE YOU GUYS SEEING THIS? The Poms are all out before tea on Day 5, and the Aussies need 168 off 36 overs. This is turning into a ripper of a match!
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Fun link from the Snook: The UnSuggester. You enter the title of a book that you have and it tells you which other books you’re least likely to own. He writes: “Interestingly, the first search I did was for The Book of Skulls. Among the unsuggestions are several books in our library – The Lovely…
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Huh. My boss Albert was on his way into the shop this morning when he noticed a woman at a stoplight with a coffee cup sitting on her car’s roof. He waved to get her attention and pointed at the cup. She called him over to thank him for the head’s-up… and gave him $15…
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Photos of crossing the Nullarbor. It’s a lot less sparse than I expected. I’d still rather do it this way though…
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Everyone gather around the piano for that Christmas favorite… Jingle Rock Bell! Warning: That song WILL be in your head for the next day.
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Whoa! Scientists in the UK have traced the polonium-210 that killed Alexander Litvinenko to a nuclear plant in Russia. DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNNNN! And the Snook just sent me a link to this gem of a Slashdot comment: But it’s so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of Putin: is he the…
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Wii-Mania has finally gotten the better of me. I haven’t been this excited about video games since Super Mario Bros. 3 came out for the NES. (Remember how there was a preview of it in that Fred Savage movie, where his autistic little brother won the Nintendo world championship? Ahhh, youth.) Anyhoo, we placed our…
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Nice! My Nike+ iPod Shoe Hack got linked on Podophile, who described it as his “favorite DIY method.”