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Oddities

Leave it Tony, it’s not worth it (D’Israeli plays with toys)

Iron Man vs. Cybermen

Leave it Tony, it’s not worth it –D’Blog of ‘Israeli: Genre Mash-Ups

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Toughen yourself by braving the wind and the waves


via same jwz post as the last, a site that inserts your face into classic Chinese propaganda posters. Blogging it for the high resolution poster images.

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Blather Oddities

T-rying too hard

bird! plane! superman! ...

via jwz, an amusing T-Shirt site that has a front page which will make you chuckle, but which reflects perhaps too much on the limitations of its medium and gets too meta in it’s message. As it describes itself, Torsopants are like funny t-shirts, but not t-shirts and not funny!

cliffhangers are

purples

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How does it feel to die?

Morbid research department: A New Scientist special feature on the sensations associated with various potentially fatal experiences:

Death special: How does it feel to die? – being-human – 13 October 2007 – New Scientist.

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Blather

40 + 0.00274

The first blog post of the rest of my life!

Gosh, my Midlife Crisis Countdown widget was darn buggy.

I spent my 40th giving out cake and hearing that I look younger than my age, which is nice I guess. Was too busy to post a birthday blog post, which is good, because in the past, I have been known to be maudlin.

Here’s the most unexpected cool happy birthday I got, made by a nice co-worker:

On a day that included a birthday call from Australia, that’s pretty surprising.