• for fans of the film “dogma” …

    There is a page at Kevin Smith’s website [www.viewaskew.com] which features a clip – formerly only available on DVD, and then only with basic audio – that puts a rather different spin on Azrael’s bar-room scene. “Evil is an Abstract”.

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  • Subject: blog clipping regarding “outsourcing” an interesting read at [www.ftrain.com] – not least as commentary upon and a pointer to another article… Initially, I found The Dark Side of the Outsourcing Revolution to be a breath of fresh air. The article seeks to see the growing debate over outsourcing (call centers, programming services, etc.) not

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  • Deep Thoughts

    Was the term “next generation” quite so prevalent in business circles *before* the first sequel series to Star Trek was broadcast?

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  • useful link of the day

    [www.onelook.com] – A Reverse Dictionary Subtly different enough from a Thesaurus for me not to get snippy about calling it one.

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  • wow

    I went to the Thames Vale Advanced Morotcyclist ball last night, and even though I was very smartly kitted out I still managed to be under-dressed – there was far too high a proportion of tuxedos and black tie for me to be considered formally attired, but I was good enough to pass muster, and

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  • so, should we nominate steve?

    http://www.livingtv.co.uk/queereyeuk/questionnaire.html

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  • at random

    1) I still treat Macromedia Flash as rather dubious when it comes to matters of accessability and shop-frontage, but I enjoy its creative uses, and have found the attached animation rather amusing: [www.rockstargames.com] which is linked from [www.rockstargames.com] 2) The father of a dear friend has recently died; I have yet to respond to a

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  • whinging poms

    the aussies are right: the brits love to whinge, complain, carp and gripe. case in point: at tvam this morning, i was outside, and struck up a conversation with an xt660 owner who was appraising my zook. it was one of those british, embarrassed, stumbling conversations, me seeking traction in the conversation but getting nowhere…

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  • small world, innit, etc, and so forth…

    yay – my suzuki is working again. sort of. yesterday i returned cynthia’s bike trailer to her; i picked it up from simon’s place around 0930, suffering the gauntlet of lady sportscar drivers on driving at me, head-on, on the wrong side of the road; and a plague of white west-highland terriers throwing themselves at

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  • Alan Cox’s Dirty Laundry

    …and it’s not even complete, missing out Knight Orc, Elvira, … [www.wurb.com]

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  • [www.moby.com] just fyi, if i release a cd and it has copy-protection on it, it’s not by my choice. copy-protection annoys the shit out of me, cos it prevents me from putting my own cd’s into i-tunes. just thought i’d let you know. moby

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