I’ve seen this before, but it’s the sort of thing you need to remind yourself of every now and again:
So, where do you figure?
Voices in my head: The Beatles – It’s getting better all the time
When hell freezes over
We did some washing yesterday – two machine loads – but there must be something wrong with the machines. I realised this when I was putting away the dry, clean clothes and sat down to match the socks up, because – get this – all the socks matched!
And here I was, thinking that unmatched socks out of the washing machine was one of life’s constants, like gravity (which – though highly opposed in some quarters – seems quite immune to all petitions) or people’s inability to realise that if you let people off the bus first, there’ll be more room for you to get on.
Pigs may fly yet.
Brain-food
Just did Melissa’s little riddle and was so pleased with myself for getting it that I had to encumber you with it… (I orginally wrote “endumber” there – that’s just got to be a Freudian slip.)
Use all twenty-six letters of the English alphabet to complete the following 13 words, but use each letter only once.
b a __ __ a i n
l __ __ g e r
d y __ __ s t y
__ __ g o t e
s a __ __ a t i o n
d i __ __ p a n
p u m __ __ i n
d e __ __ a y
b o __ __ a r
d i __ __ i t
s u n __ __ r n
o b l __ __ u e
l i __ __ o f f
Answers in the extended entry.
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Banned
Kyle left comments in an earlier post about banned/challenged books, alerting me to the existence of the ALA (American Library Association) webpages. Having a look at the ala.org (not .com) webpage is recommended – they have a lot of interesting material on challenged and banned books. They also advertise Banned Books Week (25th September – 2nd October 2004), which seems like an excellent initiative.
Interesting
| NOTE: z |
| No smoking around robin. Thankyou for your co-operation. |
From Go-Quiz.com
Well, you all knew that anyway, didn’t you?
Funnily enough, the LJ user whose journal I found the link to the quiz in got the same result. However, when I use my LJ username I get this:
| “ACHTUNG! |
| ragsrobin may actually be a spider-human hybrid |
Funny.
Colourful
From all over the place, the latest meme:
Write html to put colour on a word, but instead of the colour code (or the word “blue”, for example) put your username (i.e.: [font color=username][b]username[/b][/font] but with the pointy brackets instead of the square ones). Voila: See what colour you are.
Thus, I am robin.
Which seems rather appropriate.
Juhuu!
Dette fortjener en skål: Ny forskning indikerer at kaffe muligens forhindrer de leverskadene man pådrar seg når man drikker. Kaffe og cognac er ikke bare dumt, med andre ord.
Solidaritetsblogging
Uønsket reklame er en uting, samme om den kommer i postkassen, på dørmatta (når man bor i blokk) eller i inbox’en. Både på postkassa og døra hjemme har jeg en flott liten sak fra gronnhverdag.no som sier “Uadressert reklame: Nei takk!”.
På døra har jeg i tillegg et A4 ark der det står “Kjære reklamebud – du vet det er straffbart å ignorere denne?” med pil opp mot før nevnte flotte sak.
Forrige uke sendte vi mail til Postens eiendomsformidling på Carl Berner om at de hadde å stoppe leveringen av “Vi har flott bolig til salgs i ditt nærområde”-lapper i postkassen vår, ellers ville det vanke anmeldelse.
Altså er det naturlig å slutte opp om solidaritetsbloggingkampanjen som har startet på grunnlag av Jarles bloggeinnlegg om Mosaikk-gruppen (via andedammen).
Det morsomme med saken er selvsagt at alle disse blogg-innleggene havner minst like høyt opp på google som Mosaikk Gruppen (sic) sine egen sider. Og de selger altså søkemotoroptimaliseringstjenester. Jeg søkte for eksempel just nu:
Magic?
Or just practical origami. Impressive, anyway, and it works, too.