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Today is World Pinhole Day and the sun is shining from a clear blue sky.

So load up and get out!

—(The picture is for illustrative purposes only and is not from todays or any previous World Pinhole Day)—

I was stumped when I took a look at my blog this morning. All that fancy layout was gone. No style sheet. No nothing.

Then I remembered CSS Naked Day and the plugin I use to automatically remember it.

The only problem now is that, for some reason, the date has been changed from April 5^th^ to April 9^th^!

Which is just stoopid if you asked me, but, of course, you didn’t.

So as you cannot decide on a date, for all I care, you can keep you steenking CSS Naked Day and shove it!

59% Geek

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bq.. In 1978, Jim Davis began a newspaper comic strip called “Garfield”. For almost thirty years, this strip has endured, primarily because its inoffensive, storyless humour is immediately accessible. It is, if not quite the Lowest Common Denominator of the comic world, at least as close to it as one can get without being obviously mediocre.

The comic changes dramatically when one removes the thought bubbles.

“Garfield” changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets. Consider that Jon, according to Garfield canon, cannot hear his cat’s thoughts. This is the world as he sees it. This is his story.

Arbuckle – Garfield through Jon’s eyes

Suuri osa on melkoista kuraa tai vähintäänkin keskinkertaista, mutta joukosta löytyy kuitenkin joitain todellisia helmiä kuten esimerkiksi tämä Ren & Stimpy henkinen strippi.

bq.. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

– Douglas Adams

Things Rick Astley would never do: Give you up. Let you down. Run around and desert you. Make you cry. Say goodbye. Tell a lie and hurt you.

Why?, you ask.

Well.

Because.

65%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

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bq.. Mail-from: Arpanet host CMU-10A rcvd at 10-NOV-82 0826-PST
Date: 10 November 1982 1126-EST (Wednesday)
From: James.Morris at CMU-10A
To: csl^ at PARC-MAXC, isl^ at PARC-MAXC, junk^ at PARC-MAXC
Subject: Communications Breakthrough
Message-Id: <10Nov82 112614 JM90@CMU-10A>

Because you can’t see the person who is sending you electronic
mail you are sometimes uncertain whether they are serious or
joking. Recently, Scott Fahlman at CMU devised a scheme for
annotating one’s messages to overcome this problem. If you turn
your head sideways to look at the three characters :-) they look
sort of like a smiling face. Thus, if someone sends you a
message that says “Have you stopped beating your wife?:-)” you
know they are joking. If they say “I need to talk to you :-(”,
be prepared for trouble.

Since Scott’s original proposal, many further symbols have bee
proposed here:

(:) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets,
@= for messages dealing with nuclear war,
<:) for dumb questions,
oo for somebody’s head-lights are on messages,
o>-<|= for messages of interest to women,
~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages

So you see, bit-map displays are really quite unnecessary :-)

net.works

bq.. A Welshman buys several sheep, hoping to breed them for wool. After several weeks, he notices that none of the sheep are getting pregnant. He phones a vet for help. The vet tells him that he should try artificial insemination.

The farmer doesn’t have the slightest idea what this means but not wanting to display his ignorance, only asks the vet how he will know when the sheep are pregnant. The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and will lie down and wallow in grass instead.

The man hangs up and gives it some thought.He comes to the conclusion that artificial insemination means he has to impregnate the sheep himself. So, he loads the sheep into his Land Rover, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them back, and goes to bed.

Next morning, he wakes and looks out at the sheep. Seeing that they are all still standing around, he deduces that the first try didn’t take.

He loads them in the Land Rover again and drives them out to the woods, bangs each sheep twice for good measure, brings them back and goes to bed exhausted.

Next morning, he wakes to find the sheep still just standing around. “Try again.” he tells himself, and proceeds to load them up and drive them out to the woods. He spends all day with the sheep and upon returning home falls, shattered, into bed.

The next morning, he cannot even raise himself from the bed to look out of the window. He asks his wife to look and tell him if the sheep are lying in the grass.“No,” she says, “but they’re all in the Land Rover and one of them is beeping the horn.”

The King is dead. Long live The King!

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