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T4, summarised.
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An open letter to Unilever
I recently bought a box of "Knorr The Chicken Cube"s which profess to contain "4 cubes" only to discover that in fact the product is not cubic. Rather, they are cuboids: extruded squares.
Is there an explanation for this discrepancy?
Yours in anticipation,
Ben -
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Babs said to me, maybe I'm not peeing for longer than I used to, maybe it's because I've only recently started timing it. -
[public] Facebook: Symptoms of Enormous Suckage
I just got junk mail from a credit-card company. Though it took me considerable digging to find a phone number, I called them up to tell them to never darken my doorway again, and asked them which other scum-sucking company had sold them my details. They told me it was Experian. So I called Experian and let me opinions on the matter be heard ( Read more... ) -
Science Fiction
SF has a bad rap. SF novels are never considered for any of the big literary awards. Far from reaching the quarter-finals of the Booker Prize, they have to settle for back-pats from their own peers. In literary terms, the Hugo or Nebula awards are the equivalent of the wooden spoon you get for coming last in the parents'-day sack race in front of ( Read more... ) -
Gary Gygax is dead.
"Bless us, priest," said the party leader, the warrior ( Read more... ) -
Heal thy laptop
I had a customer the other day who had lost all her work accounts because her computer was damaged in a flooded house and she couldn't be bothered to back anything up. Turns out, chatting while recovering data, that she was a therapist. Oh yes, says my cow-orker, what kind of therapy do you do? Reiki, homeopathy, hot stones, healing hands, ( Read more... ) -
Bored? Jaded?
Print this out onto a sticky label and put it inside the cover of the bible you find in your next hotel room. Or the book on alien conspiracy theories your mate lent you. -
Community spirit
You know everyone has a novel in them? Bladder, bladder. What about comic strips? I've occasionally been inspired to make a strip, maybe a single cell or triptych (it's sad that I only know that word and not the comic-culturally-correct term) that could be funny or insightful or just plain stupid. But I've nowhere to put it. I mean, I could post it ( Read more... )
