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Bad judgment in choice of kids' book cover

September 4, 2008 4:37am

Never mind all that, what about the cow? She's going to be hurting when she sits on her udder...

Random House asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally

August 22, 2008 3:00am

If I was a paedophile children's author, I'd just go ahead and sign...

Bill Gates' 2003 flame email about Moviemaker

June 26, 2008 6:56am

@16, 21
That which belongs to Bill Gates is Bill Gates's. You may wish it wasn't so, but that's the way it is.

Impromptu bookmarks found in used books

June 10, 2008 5:40am

Found a strip of bacon in a library book once. What could I do but leave it there?

Collection of funny items clipped from newspapers

June 10, 2008 1:26am

Clippings are funny, guy who put them together isn't. Would be good if he let us work the joke out for ourselves once in a while...

UK man hassled by cop for not having a "camera license"

April 18, 2008 2:17am

This may or may not be relevant: 'You can't trust a Special like an old-time copper/When you can't find your way home', from old music-hall song 'My Old Man (Said Follow the Band) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Dilly_Dally_on_the_Way

HOWTO make a desktop biosphere

April 16, 2008 4:11am

Going to make one right away. Is it juvenile to point out that Andrea Kissack is an anagram of Andrea Kickass?

Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics

April 15, 2008 9:13am

'Amazon UK should have a boxed set for not a lot - I think it cost me £19 three or four years ago.' (#2)
Down to £9.98 at the moment (just under $20) - best bargain ever, I'd say. Haven't seen the remake, but I'm not confident it'll be an improvement.

Technology lessons from the Cuban Special Period

March 6, 2008 3:14am

'Sat TV is illegal, but is principal alternative media'...Maybe so, but in typically pragmatic Cuban fashion TV in all the tourist Havana hotels comes from from one monster dish, which steals its feed from who knows where. Or so I was told...

DVD Jon launches doubleTwist -- move music without DRM hassles

February 19, 2008 3:49am

Kid, as it turns out, you might want to add: 5. The group that does all this on a PC rather than a Mac.

Dublin city council cancels free citywide WiFi: "Illegal under Euro law"

January 11, 2008 2:11am

I hope DJS won't think me too pedantic (Brits, huh?) if I point out that Dublin isn't part of Great Britain.

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