Anyone been to
Google yet this morning? Or maybe I should say... Topeka?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Not yet - I'm still trying to figure out where all the vowels went in
Gmail.
Others:
The Register: DIMENSIONAL PORTAL INCURSION AT THE LHC!
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Evidence Mounts for Water on the Moon
Daily Illuminator: Munchkin Ogre Coming in August
And one on the radio here: Ottawa Senators team captain Daniel Alfredsson to run for mayor of Ottawa. Since he's #11 on the team, he's promising an 11% tax hike...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Heh. That's my default start page. So yes. ^_^
Bah. Humbug.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
This is actually from 2008, but I just discovered it a couple minutes ago while following some links out of an article linked to London Atom Smasher prank. And it's just too amazingly good not to share.
Yes, that's Terry Jones of Monty Python. According to the page where I found this, "This BBC hoax was broadcast on April 1 2008, with plenty of viewers and several well-known newspapers falling for the joke."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I was just reminded of a classic from the nearly pre-internet age:
On April 1, 1985, in the pages of
Sports Illustrated magazine, George Plimpton brought to our attention
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
ETA this - if you click the View This Issue link, you can go to that article and see the photos and diagrams and such that went with it.
and this - in the April 8 issue, the Scorecard section had a piece called
The End of the Affair, in which Sidd Finch quit baseball because his control had left him. The April 15 issue included a
Letter from the Publisher, in which they wrote that they hadn't expected things to get so out of hand. People really wanted to believe! (View This Issue for both issues for photos)
Jeanne Hedge
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"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
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(And, of course, "make me a sandwich" and the other one from that comic.)
Ah, yes:
New call for playtesters at the SJGames Forums
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
On the WoW theme, WoW.com (normally "The WoW Insider") has ben rebranding itself all day to one game after another, and occasionally to non-game things; it never lasts more than two articles before they move on to another brand. I think they're on at least their sixth brand, and accompanying complete re-theming of the front page, if not their eighth...