Manatee Mashup

October 26th, 2007 catnip

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Manatee Squash

October 26th, 2007 catnip

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amigurumi manatee

October 26th, 2007 catnip

manatee1
Originally uploaded by NeedleNoodles.

nuff said!

oh, and also check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNi8dzj0S8 for squishy manatee hehe

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Information R/evolution

October 22nd, 2007 catnip

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Running of the Nudes

July 5th, 2007 catnip

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box junctions

June 1st, 2007 catnip

am i the only person in kings heath who knows how to use a box junction? i.e. do not enter unless your exit is clear EXCEPT WHEN TURNING RIGHT!!!

every morning I turn right from kings heath high street into vicarage road and 9 out of 10 people who are turning right do not use the box junction correctly and hover gingerly outside of it like scared mice. even if I am at the front of the queue and correctly move to the middle of the box junction ready to turn right, the people behind me do not even follow me and stay behind the line.

now admittedly their actions (or inactions) are not particularly dangerous, it just annoys the hell out of me and I wonder how many other highway rules they don’t fully understand or are too scared to implement.

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Support The Great Turtle Race

April 13th, 2007 catnip

For millions of years leatherback turtles have been able to survive in the oceans, lay their eggs on the beaches and repeat the cycle of life. Unfortunately, leatherbacks are in danger of extinction and are declining at an alarming rate. Leatherbacks in the Pacific Ocean have declined more than 90 percent in the past 20 years.

Eleven critically endangered leatherback turtles, each of them are over six feet long, race from a golden Costa Rican beach into the vast Pacific. Each is tagged with a revolutionary satellite tracking device, and the race is on. Which turtle will cross the finish line first in the 14-day race towards the Galapagos Islands?

The Great Turtle Race

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thou shalt always kill

March 23rd, 2007 catnip

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Slash Diction

March 22nd, 2007 catnip

I’ve been doing a lot of Search Engine Optimisation in work lately and this led me to wonder how one would blog about something one didn’t like without inadvertantly promoting it by increasing its web presence. “No publicity is bad publicity” as the saying goes. So I came up with an idea: what if I were to put a slash between each letter, let’s say for example R/o/b/b/i/e W/i/l/l/i/a/m/s.

It could have been any character I suppose, but with the slashes it’s still quite easy to read and slashes also have quite a negative connotation, appropriately. Let’s measure web presence as the number of results a name returns in Google. Try it for yourself if you like: search for R/o/b/b/i/e W/i/l/l/i/a/m/s in Google and you’ll get a grand total of zero hits, yay! but without the slashes a Google search of ‘the web’ returns over two million results (at the time of writing).

Hmm, I’ve never heard of anyone doing this before on the web, maybe I’ve started a brand new interweblog meme phenomenom! I’m gonna call it “Slash Diction”. Of course this could eventually backfire on me and all the R/o/b/b/i/e W/i/l/l/i/a/m/s fans could start including Slash Diction in their fan sites too! Oh well, it’ll be interesting to see if this takes off, I’ve always wanted to invent something!!

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emergency vehicles

March 22nd, 2007 catnip

I’m driving to work and an ambulance is coming up behind me, so I pull over to let it past and so do a number of other vehicles in front of it. After it has gone past, I go to pull straight out again and find I can’t because some of the other idiots behind me have decided to seize this opportunity to take over me. I think this is the height of bad manners. We have all had to pull over for an emergency, we all need to pull out again to be on our own, fortunately emergency-free, merry ways. You’d think the fact that someone nearby needed an ambulance would make these people count their blessings and be considerate to fellow road users, but no, it seems that someone else’s misfortune is their gain.

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