21/11/00 - Mr Bungle perform 'Hit Me Baby One More Time'. [warning: mp3] (via Haddock)

21/11/00 - Environmentalists up in arms when people say 'Let Nature take its course': (via Anthropology in the News)

"Former Waitangi Fisheries Commission chairman Sir Tipene O'Regan has outraged environmentalists by suggesting that stranded whales should be left to die. He also argued that Maori be allowed then to use the dead whales for materials - a remark that a leading conservationist warned could lead to violence."

"Anthropology. The study of cultures, past and present. Sounds interesting enough as a choice of majors. Until realism sets in."

21/11/00 - Well I thought it was funny:

"About a year ago, me a few colleagues came up with the idea of starting a new chain of  pasty shops called 'OI! Pasty' (I suppose a bit like the famous sushi restaurant chain Yo! Sushi' *grin*)."

20/11/00 - Looka has great picture of George W. Bush and his apparent inability to walk 6 feet.

20/11/00 - U.S. citizens aren't going to have much luck applying for political asylum over here:

"Thank you for your enquiry. United States citizens would not be eligible for asylum in the United Kingdom as the United States is considered to be a safe country. Further information on Asylum in the UK can be found at Asylum in the UK

Yours sincerely,
..."

"We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States."

19/11/00 - Feline Frenzy Teen 'Zine Scene.

19/11/00 - Sound files of music hall performers.

19/11/00 - The fine line between gamebirds and porn stars.

19/11/00 - That 'Notice of Revocation of Independence' email.

19/11/00 - Famous British paedophiles.

19/11/00 - Tuggers?  From a book by The Artist Formerly Known As Zodiac Mindwarp:

"One of the finest chapters from Crucify Me Again, "Germaine Greer's Bumhole and the Psychology of Wanking", compares Greer's diatribe against "tuggers" in her book The Whole Woman to "laughing at spastics", and describes how Greer's insults could never match the masturbator's self-disgust caused by a reflection on a television screen: "Pants around ankles, soggy tissue in trembling hand_ and you catch sight of your revolting self reflected on the blank screen.""

19/11/00 - Depressing stuff about mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

19/11/00 - At last, the songs of Rod, Jane and Freddy are on the web.  Including a reggae version of the Rainbow theme tune. [warning: mp3]

Here are the proper themes:

"The original theme, three minutes long, as written and performed by the little-seen pre-Rod Jane and Freddy group Telltale. If you thought you knew this back to front, think again! Watch out for the weird, wistful hippy middle eight. Small wonder they faded it out so soon on TV..."

19/11/00 - I never knew multimap had aerial views.  You can almost see my house. (via email)

19/11/00 - 'Sleepy' Tallahassee turns drivers into maniacs:

"Capitol Police on Friday arrested Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith, one of hundreds of journalists in town to cover the election drama, after police said Smith struck another reporter with his car during an argument over a parking space."

It also reveals where Katie Puckrik is.

19/11/00 - Interesting article on visual perception:

"Last year, with Christopher Chabris, also at Harvard, Simons showed people a videotape of a basketball game and asked them to count the passes made by one or other team. After about 45 seconds, a man dressed in a gorilla suit walked slowly across the scene, passing between the players. Although he was visible for five seconds, 40 per cent of the viewers failed to notice him. When the tape was played again, and they were asked simply to watch it, they saw him easily. Not surprisingly, some found it hard to believe it was the same tape."

19/11/00 - Try the Express' 'Are you super rich?' quiz:

"4 Your cooker is:
a An Aga;
b One of those posh double stainless steel jobs;
c An absolute treasure, even though he's only ever had the one Michelin star."

19/11/00 - Female bouncers are called 'door bitches'?  I don't think I'll test that.

19/11/00 - Shock news, Wagon Wheels same size, it's our mouths that have grown.

19/11/00 - I hope the Swedish Chef was getting the award:

19/11/00 - Sounds like the title for a Harry Potter book, actually its a maths problem:

"Zeno's Mice and the Logarithmic Spiral"

19/11/00 - Movies recreated in Lego.

16/11/00 - I finally managed to add the text from the water use in Santa Fe article below.

16/11/00 - I heard this discussion on the radio: (via Blue Ruin)

"The trim Baroness had devised amendments of such fiendish complexity that to explain them she had to say “buggery” repeatedly. Buggery in England with men and women, buggery in Scotland with girls under 18, buggery at 17 in Northern Ireland with either sex . . . on and on she went. For variety the Baroness would sometimes say “sodomy”."

16/11/00 - Charlton Heston doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good performance: (via Blue Ruin)

"The Oscar-winning actor, and president of the influential National Rifle Association (NRA) in the US, said British anti-gun laws had led to an increase in gun-related crime. In an address to the Oxford Union, he said the right to carry arms, enshrined in the US Constitution, maintained freedom and actually saved lives."

16/11/00 - Pooh and Piglet, together no more:

"But more than 70 years after he sprang from the imagination of AA Milne Moslem shoppers, who regard the pig as an unclean animal, want to remove Piglet and leave Winnie either on his own or with other characters."