Ok, I had to read this, so that means you get to experience the joy too. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to scrub out my brain with a Brillo Pad. Today’s phrase is “rectovaginal fistula”.
Southeast Texas Record - 16/04/2007
Before the medical malpractice trial of a Jefferson County doctor began on Monday, April 16, [...]
CNN.com - 12/04/2007
Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since 1991, nailgun injuries have risen about 200 percent, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease.
“This increase [...]
At work earlier today somebody finally found and mailed around the full Microsoft discount list. It’s basically a big list of companies that will give money off their stuff if we can prove we’re MS employees.
Most of it is pretty standard stuff: electronics, software, books and the like. And… uh… corsets.
(From FairyGothMother and BridalCorsets.com, [...]
spEak You’re bRanes is a blog collecting “ignorance, narcissism, stupidity, hypocrisy and bad grammar” found on the BBC’s Have Your Say website.
Examples:
Global warming and the political parties. The Artic Icap reflects Sunlight back into space. As it melts more energy is aborbed by the dark sea. If we all painted our South facing roofs then [...]
BBC News - 12/04/2007
About 200 youngsters caused damage put at £20,000 to a family home after a party organised on a website.
Police said a teenage girl used the social networking site MySpace to advertise the party while her parents were away from home on Easter Monday.
The 17-year-old’s mother has described the party as “house rape” [...]
… ever find themselves diving dramatically to stop the microwave with 0:01 left, 007-style?
Anyone?
Um. Right.
Yes. *cough*
Bye.
Non-programmers: avert your eyes.
Programmers: avert your eyes (for different reasons.)
If you ignored the above, then don’t say I didn’t warn you: here’s a zero-runtime FizzBuzz implementation using recursive C++ templates, emitting its output via compiler error messges.
Sunshine is a remarkably pretty film, and if you are capable of ignoring everything you’ve ever learned about physics, everything you know about logic or common sense, and everything that any character says or does for the duration of the film, then you might even enjoy it.
Luggage Online (no, really) has a list of 20 of the most unique hotels on the planet.
The Poseidon Undersea Resort (shown below) looks fantastic, but I suspect that the Hotel de Nesle is more like something I’ll ever be able to afford.
Also: Did you know that Alnwick has one of the largest treehouses in the [...]
Magnetar Does A Gigantic Stellar ‘Hiccup’ - Science Daily - 06/04/2007
Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar – the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field – in a sort of giant cosmic blench.
When it comes to eerie astrophysical effects, the neutron stars commonly known as magnetars [...]
For your viewing/listening pleasure:
Trailer Club 70 - is a site collecting trailers from 70’s grindhouse films.
Copy, Right? - is a blog with an impressive list of odd cover versions of songs. (Including a post dedicated entirely to Pascal Comelade’s fairground re-interpretations of 1970’s songs.)
The Hostile New Age Takeover of Yoga - by Ron Rosenbaum for Slate is an interesting premise that rambles off into the woods long before making any fully coherent points, but redeems itself through a very entertaining bout of spleen-venting.
How We Learned to Stop Having Fun - in the Guardian is an extract from Barbara [...]
BBC News - 03/04/2007
An edible billboard made from 390kg (860lb) of pure chocolate has been eaten in just three hours.
Thorntons invited passers-by to tuck into the 14.5ft by 9.5ft (4.4m by 2.9m) sign in Covent Garden, London.
The Easter creation, a world first, was made of 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant chocolate eggs and 128 chocolate [...]
Mmm… Delicious cake…
(Made by the wonderfully named Black Widow Bakery, using minced beef, mashed potato, tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.)
Dear People of the Internet,
Please stop the fucking April Fools jokes. You are not as funny as you think you are.
Yours sincerely,
The Management.