I love the Internet. Just a few short minutes ago I was putting together my fantasy football team for this year (at Pete’s insistence). Failing to think of anything particularly witty for my team name (despite the comic potential of picking Man United’s new American goalkeeper Tim “Tourettes” Howard). The best I could come up with was to call them the “Hot Shot City XI”, if only because I didn’t have enough characters to call…

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The ability to construct proper sentences (and don’t even think about paragraphs) seems to have deserted me today, so, continuing an occasional series of my own, here are some thoughts for the day: – It appears that I am not the only person to notice the striking resemblence Chelsea’s mysterious Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich, bears to Jimi Goodwin out of The Doves. – [Listening to Jerk It Out by The Caesars]. Damn, I’m going to…

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The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator is just fantastic: “Every time you display this page, you are automatically participating in the Monkey Shakespeare project. Your computer is put to work to simulate a number of monkeys typing randomly on typewriters, and each page typed is checked against every play Shakespeare ever wrote!” The current record is the first 6 letters from “King John”. So far, those monkeys have been typing away all day weekend, and frankly, I’m…

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There’s an article in today’s Guardian’s that talks about a new craze called flash mobs: “Python-esque street theatre events organised by email. Big crowds of strangers suddenly materialise at a predetermined location, act out a series of actions and then melt away, leaving bystanders bewildered and amused.” There are some examples, like the large group of people who turned up together at a department store in New York, stood around discussing a pile of carpets…

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The song “Hot Shot City” is particularly good

The other week’s NTK newsletter conatined a link to a fake camcorder review on DOOYOO (“…therefore, i choose to give this product a mediocre rating, mainly because of reliability issues”). You might think that’s amusing, but it’s no match for the unquestionable king of fake Internet user reviews: Looking For-Best Of David Hasselhoff, as reviewed by the customers of amazon.com. I first saw this over a year ago, and I’m pleased to see, from a…

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I’m amused to read that someone is finding angel’s weblog not by remembering the URL, but by searching google for things like “accidentally snapping her head off her body”, “accidentally snapping her head off”, and “snapping her head off” not accidentally. Apart from worrying about the fact that there are just a few too many results for the non-accidental head-snapping search result (the Internet once more proves to be a scary place), I think there…

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According to this article: “the university course you pick may be related to the length of your life ahead and the way you die”. Arts students die young, apparently, although I take some comfort from the fact that what the results actually seem to be saying is that people who smoke a lot tend to die young, and that arts students are more likely to smoke. It could be worse though: medics, “were most likely…

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