September 2010
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Sep 19th
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July 2010
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Wylie Agency Publisher's Two Year Amazon Deal →
The minute Amazon’s Kindle store was announced, this became inevitable. The Wylie Agency, publishers of books by Salman Rushdie amongst others, has signed a two-year deal with Amazon to ensure their eBooks are only available via the Kindle store. This was supposed to be the age of technology simplifying our lives, not the age of constant choices between being locked out of various content...
Jul 23rd
June 2010
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My current favourite pastime is looking at a stock ticker and deciding which company is secretly carrying out cybernetic or bio-genetic research that will lead to the downfall of humanity. Current top pick is “Genzyme”.
Jun 4th
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May 2010
11 posts
Learn the word, damnit.
Dear everyone associated with video games. This is a small infomercial. This, right here, is a reticule: This one is a reticle: LEARN THE DIFFERENCE.
May 21st
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May 18th
The US Military's 26-page Brownie Recipe →
This is where your taxes are going, America. Shortening shall be a refined, hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils which are in common use by the baking industry. Coconut and palm kernel oils may be used only in the coating. The shortening shall have a stability of not less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM) in Method Cd 12-57 of the...
May 18th
May 13th
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Most Excellent Government
Be Excellent to Each Other … And party on, dudes! Courtesy of http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=413885#p413885
May 12th
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Airport 'Bomb Joker' Found Guilty →
Paul Chambers, the chap who tweeted “Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week… otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!” has been found guilty of breaching an obscure legislation relating to ‘menacing communication’, fined £1000 and given a criminal record. Utterly ludicrous. Link courtesy of the excellent JackOfKent blog.
May 10th
“UKLabourParty: Please retweet if you want a #LibLab Proportional Representation...”
–  Really? This is the state of politics in the UK?
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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Appletini
Created this based on the one I had at the Stratosphere in Vegas. It’s rather good, even if I do say so myself. 1 shot Apple Sourz 1 shot Smirnoff Apple Vodka Top up with 1/2 apple juice and 1/2 Sprite.
May 9th