Up The GAA!
Ah, the GAA, I’d forgotten I had this commentary.
Daily Archive: October 5, 2001
Jedi Census
Nice to see that in this list of religions from the UK Census form, “Jedi Knight” is listed at the end (on page 18), nestled snuggly between “Other Religions” and “Heathen”. And Go Jains!...
Hobbits And Elves Going At It Hammer And Tongs
They’ve rereleased Bored of the Rings just in time for the movie. I loved this book — where else do you get graphic porno versions of hobbits and elves going at it hammer and...
It’s Just A Game
A Monopoly addict described by his wife as a sore loser narrowly escaped “going straight to jail” yesterday for punching his stepson, who had beaten him. After pushing the 13-year-old against a wall and...
Evil of Bert
MORE PROOF of the Evil of Bert…
GPS Doodles
This is definitely the weirdest waste of time I’ve seen. GPS Drawing. You get yourself a GPS and, using these drawings, navigate in 2 or 3 dimesnions around a map, confident in the knowledge...
Dumbest Scientific Illustration This Week
Cyber Rats NTK is right — this may be the dumbest “scientific illustration” this week:
2001 IgNobela
The 2001 IgNobel Prizes are out. I am so stoked. My favourite this year has to be A Preliminary Survey of Rhinotillexomania in an Adolescent Sample, which demonstrates that that nose picking is a...
Text of Evidence Against bin Laden
So this is the Text of Evidence Against bin Laden… And I see the Taliban have offered to try him in an Islamic Court. Muslim courts… Hague Courts, cruise missile courts… that’s the nice...
A Clone Of Your Own
Cypriot Researcher Sees Human Clone in Four Months