20/1/01 - The Online Dictionary of Playground Slang.

Also The Law of the Playground.  It shows just how cruel kids are.

20/1/01 - Stock photography web sites.

20/1/01 - A short piece on Stephin Merritt who plays in London tonight and tomorrow.

20/1/01 - Images of England.

20/1/01 - The Hillary Watch.

20/1/01 - WFMU's Best of 2000.  Where's the WFSU Top 50 for 2000, that's what I want to know?

20/1/01 - The lyrics and chords to 'I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink'.

20/1/01 - Get your Golden Boy Peanuts here.

19/1/01- The Manual (How To Have A Number One The Easy Way). (via Splinters)

19/1/01 - Characteristics of Americans without Telephones, 1980-1993. (via Tangents)

19/1/01 - Just what I thought about those stupid Tory posters. (via NTK)

19/1/01 - I'm now determined to be the number one source for Keith Harris and Orville.  At the moment a Google search for Keith Harris and Orville has me at number 16.  Perhaps if I include this Micropops image of Keith Harris and Orville:

19/1/01 - It's been a while since a pigs link:

"Some lucky pigs were happily dozing in their sty today unaware how close they came to being roasted alive."

"Aside from the numbers, Mr. Kennison's research is notable for its quality. In a few cases, someone's name is listed with no other information (perhaps these were added just before he stopped working on it, for whatever reason). But most of his records by far include illuminating details which simply are not available without a great deal of painstaking research. Birth date, cause of death, profession, religion, place of birth, research citations, names of other family names.... Although he doesn't provide all of this information for any given record, it's still a little dizzying!"

18/1/01 - The Mr. Sparkle Fan Club. (via Footprints)

18/1/01 - Any spare time?  Become a clickworker and classify Mars craters.

18/1/01 - Josie McCoy, an artist who paints portraits of TV characters:

17/1/01 - A nice piece in Salon about the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column, which they oddly call the Corrections and Amplifications column.

17/1/01 - They do these headlines just to tease us:

"RICHARD & JUDY KILLER CAGED"

"[N]ew ground has been broken again as the worlds first dog billboard - aimed at both dogs and their masters - is currently touring Holland. Every 10 seconds the billboard emits an ultra-sonic sound that people can't hear, but dogs can."

17/1/01 - What a way to quit your job:

"It was only 14 letters buried in the heart of an obscure editorial about the joys of free range tomatoes. Only the most sharp-eyed readers would have spotted it. But by yesterday afternoon a five-paragraph article in the Daily Express was the talk of the media, the Cabinet and even Buckingham Palace. 

'Let organic farms flourish' contained a hidden but unmistakable message. The first letter of each sentence spelt out F-u-c-k-y-o-u-D-e-s-m-o-n-d. It was the kind of message the combative Richard Desmond, new owner of the Express, would have been proud of - if it were not in his own paper."

17/1/01 - Despite my PhD in Raman spectroscopy I never heard of this type of vibrational frequency, radionics:

"The radionics practitioner aims to tap into the "vibrational frequencies" of a patients bioenergy to analize the cause of sickness. Patients complete a questionnaire about their medical history and supply a hair sample or a drop of blood. The sample is placed on a radionic black box which has frequency settings tuned to the various disorders."

"Although not a traditional focus of radionics, as many practitioners find it and interesting area of exploration we offer materials on planetary influences, use of crystals, protection from and cleansing of negative energies, external influences, chakra opening and balancing, words of power, affirmations, dream interpretation, intuitive abilities, use of symbols, geopathic stress (and how to counter it), life purpose, earthquake forecasting, cyclic influences, attunements, personal energy analysis, metaphysical research, peak transmissions, spiritual growth, implants, karma, Chinese astrology and character analysis etc."

17/1/01 - Here's the VW commercial featuring the 'five second rule'. [warning: Quicktime]

Junebug has a complete rundown of the rules to the 'five second rule':

"The "five second rule" is a fascinating cultural phenomena. For some, it is known as the "three second rule," but the qualities of the rule are more or less the same. Much like the second law of thermodynamics and gravity, the "five second rule" is an accepted cultural fact. People just seem to instinctually know that if you drop a piece of food on the ground, you have approximately three to five seconds to pick it up before it is officially "dirty.""

16/1/01 - Why do bees make hexagonal cells in a honeycomb?  In the atheist view, God didn't do it.

16/1/01 - An excellent site with old photographs of Tallahassee.  They've also got photos of the same streets today.

Another site with old Tallahassee postcards.

16/1/01 - All the Dr. Bronner labels in .pdf form. (via Haddock)

16/1/01 - The fat content of British creams.  Mmmm: (via Lake Effect)

"Extra thick double cream is made from double cream. It is homogenised, pasteurised and
cooled to create a thick spoonable texture"

16/1/01 - One of the Saints whose day is on my birthday, Myron the Wonder Worker. (via methysalicylate)

16/1/01 - Bodies stored in a chapel of rest, not El Salvador, but Bedford: