And while I'm busy stealing content* from Ghost of a flea, take a look at GROW. Then drop by Dave Does the Blog for in-depth investigative reporting.

(Via Ghost of a flea.)

* Only (as long as I give attribution) be sure to always call it please, research.

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Australia is an old-new continent. The Europeans issued a false birth certificate for it when the British seafarer Captain James Cook reached it. However, Australia already had the most ancient race of men on the face of the earth - the Aborigine people... They continue to live their primitive lives to this very day.

But when you become acquainted with their traditions among their tribes, you find that they have customs such as circumcision, marriage ceremonies, respect for tribal elders, and burial of the dead - all customs that show that they were connected to ancient Islamic culture before the Europeans set foot in Australia.

You know, it sounds to me more like they are, well, Jewish.

They don't look Jewish.

Grandma, shush!

(Tim Blair < Allah < Jihad Watch < MEMRI. Don't break the chain!)

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1 That's going to make the synagogue a lot more interesting this Rosh HaShannah (New Year).

Posted by: Simon at February 18, 2004 04:27 PM (UKqGy)

2 Australians are Jewish? Oy vey!

Posted by: EvilPundit at February 18, 2004 09:45 PM (rZdkp)

3 I just learned today that I am Jewish. I was a little surprised, to tell the truth.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 19, 2004 01:42 AM (jtW2s)

4 Funny, I thought you look Jewish--particularly around the wings....

Posted by: Susie at February 19, 2004 01:57 AM (0+cMc)

5 Yeah, it's the wings that give it away every time.

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	15897189 people have taken the DeathTest.
	Of those, 55% were female and 45% were male.
	The average life expectancy of test takers is 67 years.
	10% of test takers have hairy nipples.
	4% have had team sex.
	8% work in the porn business.
	And 325355 people claim to have leprosy.

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I've never had an allergic reaction to food before. But I'm pretty sure that's what this is. I've taken one of my little pink pills and it seems to be dying down now.

Crosses Lean Cuisine Purely Fish off list of quick, convenient and non-allergenic meals.

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The Universe conspires to uninspire:

• None of my computers crashed today.


• Or indeed played up in an amusing manner.


• Nor did any office equipment explode.


• The weather was not extraordinarily hot.


• Or cold.


• Or wet.


• Nor did I get struck by lightning.


• Work was neither particularly stressful.


• Nor unusually successful.


• Lunch was kind of bland.


• Though that chicken sandwich was pretty nasty.


• Fast & Fresh has really gone down hill lately, you notice that?


• Less variety.


• Higher prices.


• And their chicken sandwiches taste, I don't know, off.


• Maybe I should go somewhere else.


• Wonder if M.Y.O. is still open on Pitt St.


• Because that was pretty good.


• I watched no anime today.


• Though I did read part of Mary Gentle's Rats and Gargoyles.


• Which, curiously enough, is about rats and gargoyles.


• In case you were expecting some clever allegory.


• The plot is fiendishly complicated.


• But I will endeavour to review it.


• Once it is finished.


• Which it isn't yet.


• So I can't do that today.


• I did get out of the crimson room.


• But not without help, so it doesn't really count.
  
• And I still have yet to complete level four of Throw Rocks At Boys.


• So, sadly, I have nothing to blog about.


• Dave Barry is moving.


• His new blog will have comments!


• That should prove interesting.

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1 Excellent non-post!!!!

Posted by: Susie at February 17, 2004 02:31 AM (0+cMc)

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Always good to see my tax dollars at work:

Professor Schpinkee's Greenhouse Calculator.

(Thanks to The Fall of Jericho. Click here if Blogspot's permalinks are, well, Blogspotted.)

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1. Are you superstitious?

No.

2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?

A relative of one of my co-workers sold his house because it was haunted.

3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?

The one that says that if you don't link to Ambient Irony regularly, your hair, teeth and toenails will fall out.

That and the morbid fear of the number 37,473,382,481.06.

4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?

No. Therefore, also no.

5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?

No. Because it is complete and utter tripe.

There, that was easy. Now what's for breakfast?

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Brought to you by Aaron's Rantblog.

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This one is for Susie, Cherry, Jennifer, Mookie, LeeAnn, Roxette, Stevie, Heather, Helen, Linda, Annika and Sarah:

Throw Rocks At Boys

(Thanks to The International Squirrel Conspiracy.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:18 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Tee hee hee! That was fun! I quit after the first ten boys, though--don't want to get addicted!

Posted by: Susie at February 13, 2004 06:26 PM (0+cMc)

2 Awww...at first I thought Pixy Misa loved us, now I understand that he is just inviting us to violence.
My kind of man, really.
Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted by: Helen at February 13, 2004 06:33 PM (1GFEL)

3 I made it to level 4, then I ran out of time.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 13, 2004 06:35 PM (kOqZ6)

4 I've been practicing for this my whole life.

Posted by: LeeAnn at February 14, 2004 12:49 AM (HxCeX)

5 Happy Valentine's Day, Pixy!

Posted by: Jennifer at February 14, 2004 12:51 AM (4DdKZ)

6 Aw, Pixy, for us?
You knew exactly what we needed.
hands over chocolate and anime
Happy Valentine's, Pixy!

Posted by: Linda at February 14, 2004 11:51 AM (mmKG+)

7 How cute Pixy, i love it! Happy valentines day to you sweetie!

Posted by: annika at February 14, 2004 11:58 AM (Oon5z)

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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:14 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Uh oh.

Posted by: Susie at February 13, 2004 06:15 PM (0+cMc)

2 My shortcuts came back. My mind is still blank though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 13, 2004 06:54 PM (kOqZ6)

3 A shortcut is a terrible thing to waste

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at February 14, 2004 01:29 AM (UquFN)

4 My partition, the one which held my, well, image collection, ain't coming back; the table is hosed.

Posted by: triticale at February 16, 2004 05:23 PM (9ulhY)

5 Alas for your image collection.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 17, 2004 12:14 PM (jtW2s)

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Okay.

I can now report that lightning comes in three types:

Type 1: Flash! <Pause> Rumble rumble rumble. Good old comfortable watching-the-show lightning.

Type 2: FLASH! CERACKACKACK!! The "heh, that was pretty close" lightning.

Type 3: BLAM!

Type 3 lightning is particularly effective at 4:30 in the morning when everybody is fast asleep. There's no point in doing it again, though, because nobody's going to get back to sleep for a long time.

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This train is travelling westward toward the planet Destiny.

We will be making a transfer at the Hope & Despair station.

We'll be making use of a timeknot.

Due to this circumstance, please do not open your windows.

Please don't use the the toilet while the train is standing at the station either.

Update: Well, that's nice. They kill half the family in the first episode, and then in the second episode they go back in time and kill them again.

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Daniel, MuNu's pet grad student, posts regarding some interesting valentine's day gift ideas for the geek-girl in your life.

But the HTTPanties only come in "200 OK" and "403 Forbidden". Could we not make use of some of the other HTTP error codes?

Let's see:

Hmm...

100 Continue (Works for me.)

101 Switching Protocols (Um...)

204 No Content (Maybe on a guys boxers, if he's had, you know, snip-snip.)

300 Multiple Choices (See 101 Switching Protocols)

303 See Other (Other?)

304 Not Modified (On a ladies' t-shirt)

305 Use Proxy (Safety first)

307 Temporary Redirect ("If the 307 status code is received in response to a request other than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might change the conditions under which the request was issued.")

400 Bad Request (Try flowers or chocolates, maybe dinner and a movie.)

401 Unauthorized

402 Payment Required (!)

404 Not Found (!!)

405 Method Not Allowed (See 101, 300)

406 Not Acceptable (See 400)

409 Conflict ("The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the resource.")

410 Gone (Gone where?)

411 Length Required (Ouch. That's gotta hurt.)

412 Precondition Failed ("Nibbling the earlobe, uhh, kneading the buttocks, and so on and so forth. So, we have all these possibilities before we stampede towards the clitoris.")

413 Request Entity Too Large (No comment.)

415 Unsupported Media Type ("The server is refusing to service the request because the entity of the request is in a format not supported by the requested resource for the requested method.")

416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable (?)

417 Expectation Failed ("Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones, and you're off with the boys.")

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1 LOL!!!!!

Posted by: Susie at February 11, 2004 05:27 PM (0+cMc)

2 Heh.

Posted by: Meg at February 11, 2004 06:07 PM (1sxTw)

3 How about a kiss, boy? Wonderful list!

Posted by: Ted at February 11, 2004 09:50 PM (2sKfR)

4 If you've got a member of the opposite gender posting a 416 "Requested Range Not Satisfiable", then you'd better keep her/him, and for heaven's sake make sure you use the code 305!
Also, what if the code 300: Multiple Choices referred to a cluster, rather than a protocol switch?
What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Posted by: Linda at February 12, 2004 12:00 PM (mmKG+)

5 I predict I am going to get this one in e-mail in the next few months. Unattributed.

Posted by: Kathy K at February 12, 2004 12:58 PM (RFaoZ)

6 I'll never open a socket to a web server the same way again

Posted by: mike at February 13, 2004 06:08 AM (E2WVC)

7 You're missing the best one - the generic "500 - Internal Server Error."
Oh, those connotations "server" can take on.
hln

Posted by: hln at February 13, 2004 12:59 PM (yJyUC)

8 You forgot 503 - Service Unavailable
telnet ambientirony.mu.nu 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: ambientirony.mu.nu
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:03:58 GMT
Server: Misa/1.3.29
Retry-After: 1 week
Vary: negotiate, wheedle, plead
Accept: dinner, choccies, flowers
Connection closed by foreign host

Please don't kill me.

Posted by: David Gillies at February 20, 2004 05:12 AM (uUz90)

9 You could also do a pair with "Permanent Redirect" printed on the back.

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This, via Instapundit, deserves wider attention:

The press, by and large, does not accept President Bush's justifications for the Iraq war -- in any of its WMD, imminent threat, or evil-doer formulations. It does not understand how educated, sensible people could possibly be wary of multilateral institutions or friendly, sophisticated European allies.

It does not accept the proposition that the Bush tax cuts helped the economy by stimulating summer spending.

It remains fixated on the unemployment rate.

It believes President Bush is "walking a fine line" with regards to the gay marriage issue, choosing between "tolerance" and his "right-wing base."

It still has a hard time understanding how, despite the drumbeat of conservative grass-top complaints about overspending and deficits, President Bush's base remains extremely and loyally devoted to him -- and it looks for every opportunity to find cracks in that base.

Of course, the swirling Joe Wilson and National Guard stories play right to the press's scandal bias -- not to mention the bias towards process stories (grand juries produce ENDLESS process!).

The worldview of the dominant media can be seen in every frame of video and every print word choice that is currently being produced about the presidential race.

That means the President's communications advisers have a choice:

Try to change the storyline and the press' attitude, or try to win this election without changing them.

Unfortunately, it's the American ABC. If the Australian ABC were to open up like this, I'm not sure what Tim Blair would do for material.

Also on ABC News: Anna Kournikova Trades in Tennis Skirt for Hot Bikini.

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No, I'm not up quite as late as it looks. Something has gone screwy with the clock on the MuNu server. It thinks it's the right time (I set it from the clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, time.nist.gov), and the Timezone settings in MT haven't changed... Only, all my posts are post-dated.

It's just one of those little What the? Gah. I'll look at it when I have time. things that are all too common in computing.

I'm working up to a rant about software and hardware design, reliability and maintainability here. You can tell, can't you?

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Okay.

DVD #22, containing backups of... Well, never mind what, exactly. DVD #22 absolutely positively utterly refused to read, causing Windows XP to go into fits of freezingness to the point where I was forced to kill Windows Explorer. In between freezing, Windows complained bitterly that the disk was unformatted or indeed did not exist at all.

I just stuck it in the drive again. It works. Fine, no problems, first time, no delay, copied all the files off, no errors, all works perfectly, never was a problem in the first place.

Of course.

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I'm having enormous difficulties trying to restore files I previously backed up onto DVD-R. A majority of the disks I've tried so far simply won't read; others will read after they've been put in the drive, failed, removed, inspected, wiped free of tiny dust particles, put back in the drive... Three or four times.

All the disks were written - and verified - just a few months ago.

As an added bonus, when you insert a disk that Windows XP doesn't like, it pretty much chokes. Your applications, and sometimes even the mouse pointer, freeze.

Now, either these disks have a lifetime measured in weeks, or this new DVD-ROM drive isn't too great... Or it's Windows stuffing me around. Again.

I should have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive and my DVD writer available to try these disks in, but I don't. Because, you see, my 3-Ware RAID card wouldn't fit in my Lian Li case, and Linux doesn't recognise the extra IDE channels on my Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 so I had to use a PCI IDE card, which only allows me a total of 8 drives (4 from the motherboard, 4 from the card), so I couldn't put my 9 120GB drives in and had to use the 200GB SATA drive which I'd planned to put in my Windows box in the Linux box instead, and put my old 80GB IDE drive and the two left-over 120GB drives in the Windows box, which only leaves me with one IDE channel left instead of all four the way I had originally planned, and if I install the PCI IDE controller I bought to fix that the machine no longer boots at all.

In other news, my Windows machine doesn't like one of those 120GB drives. Or maybe it does. No, bad. No, perfectly fine. Bad. Fine. Can't read. Can't CHKDSK. Can't format. No errors found. Aaarrgh!

I bet if I installed it in a Linux box I'd see no errors whatsoever. Of course, my Linux box is full, so I can't do that.

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As if the latest outbreak of Danish Lemming Measles wasn't bad enough, Susie warns us of the dangers of a new virus disease affliction that is sweeping the blogosphere:

BEAL

Um. Give generously to the Beal Appeal!

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The office (kerchunk kasqueek) has a new folding and stuffing machine (kerchunk kasqueek) for sending out letters (kerchunk kasqueek) to our customers (kerchunk kasqueek). Since I was away when the infernal gadget arrived (kerchunk kasqueek) they chose to install it (kerchunk kasqueek) on the empty desk (kerchunk kasqueek) next to mine (kerchunk kasqueek).

It can fold (kerchunk kasqueek) and stuff into envelopes (kerchunk kasqueek) 50 letters (kerchunk kasqueek) a minute (kerchunk kasqueek). Hooray (kerchunk kasqueek) for automation (kerchunk kasqueek).

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So what do you see, Madame Zazi?
The first card, signifying Love: The blank card, symbolic of the underlying unreality of existence.
Well, there's a surprise.
The second card, signifying Life: The Whirling Golden Wheel.
Life is a whirling golden wheel?
It's symbolic.
Of what?
It's very symbolic. The third card, signifying the Quest for Happiness: Try to Relax.
Well, I'll try. But what's the card?
Try to Relax!
But - That's a card?
It's symbolic. The fourth card, signifying the Search for Truth: Stop.
Stop? Just like that?
The Tarot has never failed me.
So I should... Never mind. What else?
The fifth card, signifying Purity of Essence -
You're kidding me.
The fifth card... Down Home Funk
Down Home Funk?
Very symbolic.
Groovy.
The sixth card, crossing Life and Love... Whatever's Right.
Whatever's Right? So I should just -
The seventh card, signifying Hopes for Peace: the Mushroom.
The Mushroom? What kind of mushroom are we talking about here? Only, I'm allergic to some -
The eighth and final card, signifying The Future: This Is Central Headquarters.
This Is Central Headquarters? What does that mean?
It means you should stop faffing around and get on with your Plan For World Domination.
Really?
Also, you owe Madame Zazi thirty dollars.
I should have listened to the Magic Eight Ball.

(Thanks LeeAnn.)

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Which Angel would you be? By Angel

No, wait! What do you mean, No fire, no sword? What fun is that?

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Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game,
Laughing and a-running, hey, hey,
Skipping and a-jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our, our hearts a-thumping
And you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

Whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hide behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and a-sliding
All along the waterfall
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My, how you have grown!
Cast my memory back there, Lord,
Sometime I'm overcome thinking about
Making love in the green grass
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.

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1 Woo, Morrison. Good stuff.
And, as someone else said in the comments on another entry - you do have gorgeous mewmews.

Posted by: Meg at February 07, 2004 10:22 PM (1sxTw)

2 But they're not my mewmews
I get to visit the big fluffy grey-and-white one tomorrow though

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 07, 2004 11:20 PM (jtW2s)

3 Awh. Well.. they.. they um.. look like they're yours.. uhm.. yes. .. ........
Rejoice. Fluffy mews are the best. The best, not including my skinnyunfluffyblack catten, who is more the best.
Yes. I feel so mature this evening.

Posted by: Meg at February 08, 2004 12:58 AM (1sxTw)

4
They're family kitties, but not mine.
I need a kitty of my own
Have to talk to someone about that...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 08, 2004 01:35 AM (jtW2s)

5 Next time my fluff ball produces junior fluff, I shall send one in a box.
Or.. possibly that would be a bad idea.
A hot-air balloon then.

Posted by: Meg at February 08, 2004 01:38 AM (1sxTw)

6 Pack it in bubble wrap. Kitties like that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 08, 2004 02:34 AM (jtW2s)

7 The brilliance. Done & done.

Posted by: Meg at February 08, 2004 01:04 PM (1sxTw)

8 We brown-eyed girls thank you.
hln

Posted by: hln at February 09, 2004 04:11 AM (yJyUC)

9 Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Funny, I always heard that line as "Gunned down the old man with a transistor radio".

Posted by: Mitch H. at February 10, 2004 07:01 AM (tVSJJ)

10 Remind me never to lend you a radio.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 10, 2004 07:09 PM (kOqZ6)

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Woot!

I'm off to the Galston Valley Railway tomorrow! Must remember to take camera...

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Snapshots taken a day apart. Left: Denbestalanche. Center-left: Carnival of the Vanities. Right: Timblairalanche. I need to write something that will catch Glenn Reynolds' attention again.

Note that the baseline of the graph is 100 visits/page views a day. I hate that. Someone should thwack these guys over the head with Tufte.

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1 My first time here. (I think. The name is very familiar.) Congrats on your spikes. By the way, absolutely ADORABLE cat pics.

Posted by: Lynn S at February 07, 2004 10:39 AM (Y5t7B)

2 Thanks!
Jupiter (the grey and white cat studying trigonometry) is my brother's cat. He's huge, but fortunately very friendly. And very patient with their two-year-old.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 07, 2004 10:47 AM (jtW2s)

3 Show off!!!

Posted by: Susie at February 07, 2004 02:06 PM (0+cMc)

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