Blog of the Day is The Puppy Pile! ktpupp's just started and needs encouragement.

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There's no more hated sound in all the world.

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My file transfers all seem to have stalled.

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I have a new 80 gig Maxtor; I'll do what I must.

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Another IBM Deskstar has bitten the dust.

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Web Site of the Day is Bad Astronomy.

In particular, check out the movie reviews. He pans The Core much more thoroughly than I did in the cinema while waiting for The Two Towers to start.

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What is the Mootrix?

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And here I was hoping that I would turn out as a cat.

(via The Truth Laid Bear, who turned out to be a bear but I think he cheated, particularly since I'm back to being an Insignificant Microbe)

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Winning Bidder is responsible for all shipping costs, permits, cranes or any other equipment needed for loading and transporting, insuring the Property and all costs and risks associated with loading and transporting the Property. Car weighs approximately 40,000 lbs. Location: Fort Worth, TX. Pick up information will be provided to the winning bidder.

(via Slashdot of all places)

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From the You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department: Oklahoma City seizes 30,000 mice

Oklahoma City police succeeded in busting an illegal rodent farm but now authorities are faced with the problem of what to do with 30,000 white mice seized in the raid.

"We have completely emptied our truck port where the vehicles come in and have it totally filled with mice. We don't know what to do with them. They are sitting and waiting," Lira said.

"He told us he wanted out of the mouse business," Lira said.

(Yeah, yeah, via Dave Barry)

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Site of the Day is Water Rockets. Whoooosh!

Cool Toy of the Day is the Safety Sign Builder (requires Adobe Acrobat).

(Both, unless I'm losing my marbles, which is entirely possible, via Dave Barry)

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Blog of the Day is Mean Mr. Mustard who is in his own words "lazy as a comatose sloth on Thorazine". Good thing blogging doesn't require strenuous physical activity, then.

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Web Comic of the Day has to be As If! The link takes you to a lovely pink-and-blue portal page, from which you can jump straight to the latest strip or go to the archives to see older stuff.

All of the strips from day one are online, or you can download them as zip files to read at your leisure.

What's it like? It's like, well, cool. And stuff. Just read it, willya?

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I'm tinkering with Moveable Type but right now that blog is even uglier than this one. When I get it up and running, you'll be the second to know.

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All of a sudden I'm a wiggly worm. Not, as it turns out, because anyone reads my blog, but because I was indexed by the automatic indexer at blo.gs. Alas. But I'll enjoy my wormhood while it lasts, which is not likely to be long.

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The Defective Yeti is on the receiving end of the blissful ignorance of youth.

Meanwhile, The Ghost of a Flea is on a roll, and points us to - among other things - the Cheeky Girls. I'm not sure if I'll forgive him for that.

Oh, and Cold Fury fisks a sandwich. (You Instapundit [no link] readers will have seen this already, which just shows that you should have come here first! Or something.)

He should have done what I do: Take an Aussie Snacks Roast Chicken Roll (which consists of - get this - roast chicken, on a roll) and add some mozarella cheese. Two minutes in the microwave and you have piping hot mouth-watering cheesy chickeny rolly goodness. Yay!

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Site of the day is The Museum of Unworkable Devices:

This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures.

When you've finished boggling at the perpetual motion machines, wander over to Donald Simanek's site for further scientific entertainment.

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I've grabbed all the Futurama I could get my hands on, so now I'm downloading Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K to its fans). Which I have never seen. I don't know if it's ever been shown in Australia.

Hooray for Zoidberg! [Broadband — Ed.] Broadband! Hooray!

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Blog of the day is Amateur Hour, if for no other reason than introducing me to the amazing collection of nifty Flash games at Orisinal. Amateur Hour has some interesting points to make on media and communication and stuff like that too, so give it a read when you get tired of eating flies.

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Steven den Beste, who knows, like, everything, explains why you can't build a helicopter whose rotor moves faster than the speed of light.

So you might as well stop trying now, and take up basket-weaving.

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But at least it's stopped raining.

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Blog of the day is Motley Cow. Your host for this evening is Zarathustra2101. No, I don't know what happened to the previous 2100 Zarathustras.

I'm sure I've seen that cow roaming around Sydney, by the way, but right now I can't find an appropriate link. Bah!

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What the audience could not possibly know was that I was absolutely, completely, soaking wet.

Lileks, of course.

And it's Natalie. Doh!

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Five if you count Harvey.

And the BloggerPeople seem to have fixed the Mozilla problem. Either that, or it was an ephemeral phenomenon like rainbows and butterflies, only less pretty and more annoying. New Improved Blogger seems to be working well. Maybe it's time to monkey with my template so I can get the archives back up.

Of course, it will still eat your posts whenever it feels like it. Damn and blast!

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Well, I migrated to the New Improved Blogger without testing it first. It seems to work fine except that I can't log in using Mozilla anymore. Well, poot!

Anyway, coupla quick links:

Slutertarian or Slutpublican? You decide.

Dave Barry has an interesting article about Fire Ants and the Flies That Eat Them.

And Frank J. over at IMAO enlightens us as to the speed of gravity, in case any of you were wondering.

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So, who am I hurting when I download episodes of Futurama off the net?

Not the local broadcast networks, because they took it off the air after showing only four episodes (picked, as far as I can tell, at random).

Not the cable networks, because of the two available, one isn't in my street and the other won't connect me because I live in a townhouse. This despite the fact that it is already wired for their service and there are only two free-standing houses in the entire street. Bastards.

Not the DVD sales. I've already bought all the Futurama DVDs available locally. Maybe I could buy more from America, but wait! They're region coded so I can't play them!

Which leaves... Actually, it doesn't leave anybody. Except hypothetical future distributors. And I'll start caring about them when they finally get their butts into gear and become actual present distributors.

Mind you, the picture quality of the episodes I've downloaded so far has ranged from bad to terrible. (Anyone doing this stuff should take a look at some of the Anime available for download - the picture quality is far better.)

I would gladly pay to download these episodes from the source - though the quality would have to be better. Look! Money to be made! Over heeere!

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I got three visitors at the JREF Storm Shelter!

Three!

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When I'm not blogging, you can often find me at the JREF Forums. Not at the moment, though, because they seem to be fairly seriously broken.

I ran up a quick forum server thingy for people to visit until JREF is fixed: the JREF Storm Shelter. I wonder if I'll get any visitors...

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