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Dolores Aguilar: - An Obituary To Die For….

The kind of feelings expressed in this obituary normally get cloaked in layers of euphemism, but for once a forthright son (daughter?) has decided to sock it to his/her dear departed mother in no uncertain terms.
From the Times - Herald ( Serving Solana and Napa Counties since 1875) comes this obloquy to-
Dolores Aguilar
1929 - Aug. [...]

This Should Have Been Posted Ages Ago….

I don’t know what’s kept me so long.

Johnny Kelly’s short film(04:26) about putting things off until later.
I do it. I know a lot of other people do it. In fact there’s one or two people procrastinating right now as they read this post. Get back to work, you slackers! [...]

Nice Weather For Ducks

All this showery midsummer rain has played havoc with sporting fixtures, and worse is on the way according to the meteorological office. Much worse by the look of things…
The inhabitants of Chelmsford in Essex must have had a very nasty fright when they checked the BBC weather forecast at 4.00 this afternoon.

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Tony White’s “Endangered Species”

A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future.
Full of arcane references for those who know their history

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Fancy Dress

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As seen on The Daily Irrelevant Thanks John!

A Parade of Parrots and A Clever Crow or Two.

No.1: The Macaw
(You’ll have to do what the parrot says, and click on his image.)
And yes, you’re right it is a macaw. It’s the image that started me off on a long rumination about parrots.
I found it in the astonishingly well constructed site run by the New York Public Library, amongst a few thousand [...]

The Most Appropriate Job Ad Placement Ever

I’m a big enthusiast for WordPress, the software that runs this site. The crew who write it (A company called Automattic) have just celebrated WordPress’s fifth birthday, and as part of their continuing success, they’ve recently expanded their software team by hiring Warwick Poole as a “Systemologist”.
Nothing strange there, you might say, apart [...]

Oy Vey! Enough With The SPAM, Already!

One of the most bizarre benefits of having a googlemail account is that all my e-mail spam is in Hebrew.

(Click the thumbnail pictures to enlarge them, please) (Fnarr Fnarr)
I have no idea why this might be, and if anybody can explain it to me, I’d be delighted to hear the reason for it.
At first sight, [...]

Tilt - Statebook

Tilt is a new topical comedy programme fom BBC Radio 7, and one of its first episodes deals with the question: Why does the government need to issue ID cards when we have Facebook?
This short sketch is called “StateBook”.

 
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Evidence of Tiny Farmers Discovered In Museum

Miniature farming folk gather for a cool refreshing drink of Fenge at the end of a long working day.

Photos of a hitherto undocumented community of midget farmers have been discovered by a researcher in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
The researcher said that she was stunned that these tiny people had been overlooked for nearly a [...]

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