Wednesday, December 15, 2004
From the bizarre to the ridiculous...
Blunkett embroiled in second visa claim. But what's really bizarre is the second part of the story about Blunkett singing a song to MPs at a Christmas dinner. It's The Office all over again isn't it?
Freedom. From afar, the painting offers a likeness of Bush, but when the viewer gets closer they can see the image is made up of chimpanzees or monkeys swimming in a marsh.
What, no British Library? More than a million books at Oxford University's expansive Bodleian Library, including rare first editions, are to be scanned by the search engine Google and posted online for readers around the world... Other establishments taking part in the project announced yesterday include Stanford and Michigan Universities, which will digitise their complete libraries, as well as the archives at Harvard and New York Public Library.
"Put down your A-K and drop your bazooka, I have a weapon you can use this Hanukah." [via Venusberg]
Dance Dance Resurrection. "Parents! Are you worried about your teenage son or daughter frequenting unwholesome arcades, associating with the dregs of their peer group, and spending all their allowance on games containing bloody murder, sex and profanity? This game will bring the love of our Lord into the lives of these children, who otherwise would continue down the videogame path straight into the claws of Satan, and also bring a little much needed cash into your treasury - 25c of every dollar spent in one of our DDR machines will be paid directly into your Churches' account!"
Personally, I'm holding out for Dance Dance Insurrection, where at the start of the film Picard, Worf and Data start singing Gilbert and Sullivan and then DON'T STOP. Highlights include "I am the very model of a modern Starfleet Admiral, I'm cowardly, blustering, treacherous and venal", and the moving death-dance of the redshirts will have you in tears.
Blunkett embroiled in second visa claim. But what's really bizarre is the second part of the story about Blunkett singing a song to MPs at a Christmas dinner. It's The Office all over again isn't it?
Freedom. From afar, the painting offers a likeness of Bush, but when the viewer gets closer they can see the image is made up of chimpanzees or monkeys swimming in a marsh.
What, no British Library? More than a million books at Oxford University's expansive Bodleian Library, including rare first editions, are to be scanned by the search engine Google and posted online for readers around the world... Other establishments taking part in the project announced yesterday include Stanford and Michigan Universities, which will digitise their complete libraries, as well as the archives at Harvard and New York Public Library.
"Put down your A-K and drop your bazooka, I have a weapon you can use this Hanukah." [via Venusberg]
Dance Dance Resurrection. "Parents! Are you worried about your teenage son or daughter frequenting unwholesome arcades, associating with the dregs of their peer group, and spending all their allowance on games containing bloody murder, sex and profanity? This game will bring the love of our Lord into the lives of these children, who otherwise would continue down the videogame path straight into the claws of Satan, and also bring a little much needed cash into your treasury - 25c of every dollar spent in one of our DDR machines will be paid directly into your Churches' account!"
Personally, I'm holding out for Dance Dance Insurrection, where at the start of the film Picard, Worf and Data start singing Gilbert and Sullivan and then DON'T STOP. Highlights include "I am the very model of a modern Starfleet Admiral, I'm cowardly, blustering, treacherous and venal", and the moving death-dance of the redshirts will have you in tears.
