Category: Silliness

I had never heard of “GoogleBombing”:http://www.blah3.com/graymatter/archives/00000654.html before. But it seems like an amusing pasttime, and as Ted at Crooked Timber “said”:http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/001111.html, well, “Ninja”:http://www.joe2004.com/site/PageServer.

…the title of which is ??Queen Elizabeth I??. Originally published in 1934, the frontspiece–at least, that’s what I think it is, I don’t pretend to be excessively familiar with book anatomy–has the note:

bq. A new hardcover edition appeared in Britain in 1952 when the title was changed to _Queen Elizabeth I_

This is, of course, because 1952 was when QE II assumed the throne.

It turns out (and this has been an awfully long setup for what it probably going to be a somewhat disappointing link) they needn’t have bothered since “neither of them should ever have been queen”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3368731.stm.

Ah, royalty.

bq. The apparent loss of Beagle 2 doesn’t mean the end of British attempts to reach Mars. The Brits, after all, owe it to themselves to make the chaps with the heat-rays and tentacles sorry they ever heard of Woking.

Ken McLeod has an update on the classic carol, “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”:http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#107219567161242201

“Blender gets raytracing”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03%2F12%2F12%2F224259&mode=thread&tid=152&tid=185, blah, blah, blah. I just think these are the coolest sample images I’ve ever seen: “monkey1”:http://www.blender.org/bf/monkey_shad.jpg, “monkey2”:http://www.blender.org/bf/monkey_mir.jpg

Let me first note that I have the greatest respect for the gigantic volumes of people who work on the linux kernel, and communicate on a daily basis using a technical vocabulary in what is *at least* their second language.

Hell, Linus’ command of idiomatic english is actuall pretty goddamn scary, and has been as far back as I can remember.

None of which makes this less funny.

bc.. Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:30:31 -0600
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robustmutexes@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] FUSYN 5/10: kernel fuqueues

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:51:34AM -0800, inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com wrote:
> include/linux/fuqueue.h | 451 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/plist.h | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/fuqueue.c | 220 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 868 insertions(+)
>
> +++ linux/include/linux/fuqueue.h Wed Nov 19 16:42:50 2003

I don’t suppose you’ve run this feature name past anyone in marketting
or PR?

—
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting

At least in the hard liquor world, my alcohol of choice–gin–is a mere 353 years old. Amusingly, a google search for ??franciscus la boie gin?? will find, among other things “an annotation from Pynchon’s ??Gravity’s Rainbow??”:http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/o.html (look under “oude genever”).

I know I don’t drink as much of it as Russians do vodka, which “celebrates its 500th anniversary”:http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/10/russia.vodka.anniversary/index.html

b5. From Jerry, the source of all strange things

“To say nothing of the content.”:http://www.extremepumpkins.com/

Probably not appropriate for small children, for whom violence against pumpkins could be disturbing.

that the Boston club–the Paradise–referenced in “this Onion story”:http://www.theonion.com/3936/top_story.html is where I saw Concrete Blonde play in 1993 in the middle of a blizzard.

!http://www.weebl2.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/badger.gif!

However, the link on “Miscellaneous Heathen”:http://nogators.com/heathen/ is to a copy (that, in fact, seems to have had the proverbial serial numbers filed off, insofar as I don’t think it had a weebl-stuff.com link).

The original is from “Weebl”:http://www.weebls-stuff.com/, where you can get t-shirts, music and “Lard Man”:http://weebl.fluent.ltd.uk/toons/15/, which hasn’t actually, er, “Loaderised” yet.

but at least I benefit from it. It’s almost like not being a shut-in. “Here”:http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/funny/movies/toilette.mpeg

“Here”:http://silverhammer.sorayume.net/error.htm

I was on BIX for a year or two in ’90/’91, but somehow never came across “this gem”:http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/95q1/jpreviews.html.

Yes, I actually recieved this in my email:

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Jon Carroll (who you should be reading) passes along an “interesting corporate alternative to bingo”:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F2003%2F07%2F24%2FDD245316.DTL.

But it’s funny enough that I’m going to list it “here”:http://www.chryslermdff.com/parlor.asp?loadMovie=truehere, to mark the revival of Sinople.

“This”:http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/ is where that ridiculous cat-with-a-bird-hat picture came from.

Of course, I got this off of Neil Gaiman’s blog. 🙂

“…and perhaps even for those who find that they’re too far gone.”:http://home.earthlink.net/~puppup/Action_I.jpg

!http://og.latency.net/asr/stripme/1049998131-16239/DSign.jpg!

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p. So, is it a subtle joke from a writer, or is it one of those warnings that springs from a lawsuit? “Your honor, they only caught me because TurboTax did not specify that I was not to report my Illegal Kickbacks on Schedule C!”

*incestuals.com*

No, I didn’t mean to make it a link–I didn’t say that the content was funny (in fact, I haven’t looked, they’re just some damn spammers), just the domain name.