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29/6/02 - And they say Americans don't get irony:
"This year's Jar Jar Binks Award for the character who single-handedly ruins a film goes to:
29/6/02 - Digging through some old floppy disks I found a bookmarks file
dated September 1998. Ah, the good old days:
Not as bad as poor old Randy Bender. (via b3ta)
Who wouldn't like this in their collection?
Dave Beasant is always remembered for injuring himself dropping a bottle of salad cream. Must be a thing for goalies: "David Seaman once broke a bone reaching for his TV remote"
22/6/02 - Massive list of rare Northern
Soul record reviews.
"HomerBot is a robotic Homer Simpson. He sings, he burps, he comments on life, he quotes movies, and he even talks about how much he loves Duff beer. All the best (and worst) of Homer in a robot."
22/6/02 - I'll have to remember this detail
for any upcoming arguments:
"Migrants to the UK contributed £2.5 billion more in taxes than they consumed in benefits and services in 1999/2000, according to a Home Office report."
22/6/02 - The AG Essentials column on outsider
music.
"Do you mind people assuming that you're gay?
22/6/02 - An article
on Big Pharma and drug pricing. (via Robot
Wisdom)
Some interesting points (such as "evergreening" tactics to block or delay the introduction of generic competition) are skipped over, and the arguments present are poor in the extreme. For instance take this sentence concerning the research centre study used to show how much drug development costs (and which the author disputes): "Exacerbating the problem, the researchers may pick an unreasonably high interest rate. They may also set the period for drug development as too long -- in the Tufts-industry model, relatively small delays in getting the drug to market lead to big increases in the overall cost."You have to say 'what's with the may?' Do they or do they not? You might as well say 'they may pull the figures out of thin air'.
"The banoffee pie itself began life as the offspring of a banana and some toffee. Over the course of its life, it has mutated and diversified, giving rise to such creations as banoffie, banoffy, bannofie, and many other offspring...
22/6/02 - A picture of the special Marmite T-shirt designed
by Vivienne Westwood, but no sign of it in the shops:
"I have a dream, and it's called a graphics pipe
22/6/02 - No, no, no. If they brought back Chelsea
Girl can the return of Concept Man be around the corner?
"Thousands of workers at firms across South Yorkshire have been given time off to watch the nailbiting game. But the 220 staff at Swann Morton in Hillsborough, Sheffield, which makes surgical blades, will miss the match because of the objections of one female worker."I bet they're still pretty peed off though.
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