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So, apparently we aren't allowed to take any hand luggage onto 'planes on account of some bomb plot. Of course, this is just a cover-up. It's not really bombs they're worried about:

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Lately I've been mostly listening to the cast recording of Monty Python's Spamalot. How much do I want to see this show? Alas, for some reason it opened on Broadway rather than in the homeland of the Python's. So unfair. I'm sure it will come to the West End eventually, although likely without Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce et al on the cast.

Not at all jealous of the NYC folks on my friends list. Oh, no.

Everything's funnier with pants.

Using this hypothesis, I conducted an experiment. I took a very funny film, namely 'The Princess Bride', and carefully grafted the word 'pants' into a few select lines.

The proof is in this (somewhat nutty) pudding, so I will leave you with the evidence. I am sure you will agree with me...

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"Microsoft is working with Ford Motor Co. towards car that can't crash."

Am I the only person who finds this both amusing and terrifying? Apparently not. But seriously, this is a company whose flagship product is well known for its ability to ... er ... lock up (oops. That's not much better a thing for a car to do...)

Old gag: If Microsoft finally manage to make a product that doesn't suck, it'll be vacuum cleaner.

This has been around for a couple of weeks, but in case you haven't seen it yet:

Zero Wing Rhapsody

I laughed. A lot.

Ever wanted to learn how to speak 1337?

Micrsoft tells you how!

Yes, I am slightly disturbed by how well-written that article is. Gacked from Slashdot.

Gacked from Slashdot: Once upon a time, twenty-some years ago, Bill Gates did a photo-spread for Teen Beat.

View the pictures if you dare!

Please excuse me while I wash my eyes out with bleach.

Gacked from a magazine:

A man gets into a cab in Washington and as they're driving along the driver asks: "Say, buddy, you heard the latest George Bush joke?"
The passenger leans forward and says: "I am George Bush."
The driver replies: "OK then, I'll explain it really slowly..."

Well, it made me laugh. A lot.

In other news, I finally have a plumber organised for Monday - this means that I'll be shopping for taps tomorrow.

Gacked from Slashdot:

Now for sale on Amazon: Presidential canditates.

As promised, I did indeed spend all of Sunday in the T00blerone. I even managed to be productive, getting a large slab of work done on my back-end code for RS.org - the author listings pages are now generated automatically (well, kinda. I haven't finished the management code yet, so it still requires a manual import-export, but the pages don't have to be hand-crafted any more). In preparation for the imminent arrival of The Two Towers extended DVD, I also re-watched Fellowship. I won't bore you all with further squeeage beyond saying "Oh, my, that surround sound system was a good investment."

Alas, TTT did not arrive today (but tomorrow is the official release date, so fair enough). I did get a package from Amazon, though, containing The Complete Far Side. This weighty tome (and I'm talking 1¼ stone/8 kilo weighty - so I probably won't be taking it to read on the 'plane next week) contains all 4,337 cartoons from its 14 year run in fantastic quality, 3 or 4 to a (very large) page. I've only looked at the first month's strips, but already the quality shines through - never less than a chuckle, and at least once a page I've been reduced to laughter liable to disturb the neighbours (for more than one definition of 'disturb') - a higher hit rate than Dilbert or User Friendly. At under tuppence a cartoon, the very hefty price tag actually looks pretty reasonable...

GIP idea shamelessly stolen from owlman, but it's one I should have done ages ago. I've had a great love for M.C. Escher's work ever since a perceptive art teach suggested I might like it way back in secondary school. This will probably come as no surprise whatsoever to people who know both me and Escher's pictures - impossible figures, nifty tesselations, etc. Relativity is probably my favourite work (I don't have the T-shirt, but I do have the jigsaw puzzle - and a right tricksy bastard it is too), and certainly one of his most famous - some of you (waves at marysiak) may recognise it from Jim Henson's Labyrinth. Also available in LEGO.