Nothing wrong with Slashdot Journals, but as I have my own blog up and running (most of the time), I don't really feel the need for a journal.

I guess I should make a note of this ...

Our new cats, Nemi and Mozart, have their own blog! As of a week or so ago, there are even pictures :)

Let me count the ways.

There are 1.300.925.111.156.286.160.896 ways to spell Viagra.

(Apologies to Elizabeth B. Browning.)

Tom Holt (the writer of "Who's afraid of Beowulf", "Alexander at World's End" and several other books) has written a poem about a modern Numenorian. *snigger*

Wheehee! We're having kittens! They'll be joining us this very evening -- guess who's all excited:)

There's only one picture of them as yet, but expect that to change over the weekend:)

Well, it is funny, in a slightly morbid sort of way:)

Poor wee ducklings ...

According to Rush Limbaugh, only gays get AIDS. And no, this is not a twenty year old comment. The claims aired on his show June 9th this year. Oh, there's some hetero-AIDS in Africa, but that's only because of the promiscuous lifestyle of the African. According to Rush, that is.

On the other side of the pond, a pro-lifer named Jennifer Barber reminds us that the Nazi party in the 40s advocated and practiced homosexuality. Appearently, they had a pink swastika and a homosexual wing. I think maybe she is confusing it with the pink triangle that gay men had to wear on their way to the consentration camps, but no big matter ...

Both statistics and history are against them, but do they give in? No way!

The 'perfect sandcastle' formula is unveiled, according to this Ananova article -- it's:

OW0.125 x s

Go build :)

I've joined the "Help Dan Pay Back His Debt" fund and will get a copy of the film Troll Bridge on DVD when it's complete. Plus I get the "'Making of' documentary, the commentaries, the outtakes, the deleted scenes and all the rest of the garbage that usually fills a DVD", to quote the site. I'm looking forward to it already:)

For all of you going: "Huh?" -- Troll Bridge is based on a Discworld short-story by Terry Pratchett. If that tells you nothing, read more about the pTerry's books or have a peek at the L-Space (Library Space).

To quote the article :

Iraqi Prison Abuse Scandal: "Maybe they were born that way!"

For those of you who have lived in a cave for the past week, I'm talking about the pictures that show a handful of American soldiers allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners. (...)

Could it be, as Rush Limbaugh mentioned in passing on a recent broadcast, that the perpetrators of the alleged crime are homosexuals? If that's the case, maybe the motivation for their activities was far different than from what has been discussed in the media's wall to wall coverage of this incident. If these individuals are homosexuals, maybe they were getting stimulated by looking at naked Iraqis in sexually provocative positions.

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The article is so blindingly stupid I'm amazed the author is even literate. There is no way this guy can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Either that, or he's the classic closet case in denial and is really dying for it himself.

Thanks to morons.org for making me aware of the article.

OK, so it's an old page (that appears not to have been updated for a while), but it's still funny, and useful too:) How to say "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head." in 102 languages!

OK, so I see that the Norwegian translations could be better (they are plenty good enough to use, though:), and the Old Norse one is a joke, but the rest of the translations are surely good enough for tourist use!

And I mean really bad. The Museum of Bad Art has collected some horrible examples.

I realize that categorizing this entry as "graphics" may seem odd, but as there is no category "culture" or similar ...:)

You can listen to books almost all day at BBC 7.

All right, so most of the books are abbriviated, but still :) Today's listings include "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens, one of Ellis Peters' medieval whodunnits with Brother Cadfael and "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole".

It's not all books mind, there are a few comedy shows for example, but it's all good. Or mostly.

And in readable form too, from ClassicReader.com. Downside is that as far as I can tell you can't download a complete classic -- you have to click your way through the book online. But there's always Project Gutenberg ...:)

And of course ibiblio.org, one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

Not only are the Fighting Whites funny, they have a good point too. And some neat stuff for sale in their online store.