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Aethelread’s traditional Christmas message. This year with added Pet Shop Boys!
Well, it’s December 25th, which means it must be time for my traditional actually-written-and-posted-on-Christmas-day post. (Can I get away with calling it traditional, do you think, given that I did it in each of the last two years?) I am … Continue reading
It’s easier to enjoy irony when it’s not bludgeoning you awake at 4am
Picture the scene.
More spammy goodness
Ok, so I’m essentially repeating myself here, but today’s bumper crop of spam threw up a couple of things that amused me, and I thought might amuse you, too. Viz.:
Behold! I am the King of BOGOF!
When I was a teenager, I used to – well, mock is too strong a word – gently rib my dad for the fact that he was, as I saw it, obsessed with Buy One Get One Free (BOGOF) offers … Continue reading
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(Don’t) Be My Valentine
Another year, another increasingly desperate attempt to find something light-hearted and not too serious to write about the orgy of capitalistic pseudo-romance that is Valentine’s Day. As ever, I should stress that I’m not actually suffering from heartsick lonesomeness, I … Continue reading
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Google thinks I’m really old
A few days ago, Kapitano revealed that Google’s demographic algorithm had him pegged as an 18-24 year old male who was interested in martial arts, shopping and painting. He suggested that other people might like to find out what inaccurate … Continue reading
Christmas post
Yes, this is a blogpost. Yes, it’s Christmas day. No, it isn’t a scheduled blogpost – I’m actually writing and posting it today. Yes, today as in Christmas day. No, posting to my blog on Christmas day doesn’t mean I’m … Continue reading
Posted in About me, Cheerful stuff, Recipes, Religion, Stuff I've read, Stuff I've watched
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Sock-puppetry: a classic gotcha
Nelson Jones wrote a blog entry at the New Statesman yesterday evening, in which he discussed an essay in the print edition of the magazine by the philosopher (and noted atheist) Daniel Dennett. At about lunchtime today, the following pair … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Cheerful stuff, Stuff I've read, Stupidity
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Sci-fi fans like Douglas Adams because he wrote good sci-fi
Today would have been Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday, if he hadn’t gone and left the world a smaller, darker place by carelessly dying in 2001. Google have a celebratory Hitchhiker’s doodle (currently on their search homepage, after today it will … Continue reading →