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Weirdest Horoscope

Cathy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:31:08 +0000

So I’m a wood rabbit and according to Facebook Chinese Zodiac Horoscope app, this is my horoscope today…

You’ll do your best to secure a position where you’ll be the least
accountable to others, even though this must be done at the cost of a
lowering of your life level. You’ll discard your natural shyness and
will show audacity if circumstances demand it. The Moon will prepare
for natives of the sign more than one amorous surprise, instances of
love at first sight which will be without a future but will be amusing
and diverting. But it can also bring about a sudden and unforeseen
rupture!

Lowering of my life level? Sounds like it’s gone through Google Translator. It has a most cute picture though…

Cat + Toast = Anti-gravity machine

Cathy — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:52:30 +0000

From a WIRED Science blog – I just couldn’t resist! Click on the graphic to go to the original file and to see the animation.

You’re my security now…

Cathy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:28:03 +0000

Was driving back from lunch and I saw a van from Artemis Security with “Your security is in our hands…” printed on the back of it. Not “Your security is safe in our hands” – which would be a lot less creepy given I haven’t asked them to go anywhere near my security.

The cruelest cut

Cathy — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:06:52 +0000

One does have to be careful about the fonts used for signage (especially when they’re on flags that are blown around). Today, I was driving by a hardware shop and was wondering why they had a sign that said “Keys Out There”. Needless to say, it was supposed to be “Keys Cut Here” but it did have me puzzled for a few amusing moments.

British Medical Journal names greatest medical advance finalists

Cathy — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:59:35 +0000

One of these will be the winner of the greatest medical breakthrough of the last 166 years according to voter on the BMJ site:

Anesthesia
Antibiotics
Chlorpromazine [an anti-seizure drug, perhaps better known as Thorazine]
Computers
DNA
Evidence based medicine
Germ theory
Imaging
Immunology
Oral rehydration therapy
The Pill
[The discovery of the] Risks of smoking
Sanitation
Tissue culture
Vaccines

I’d say germ theory, anaesthesia, or antibiotics. Or even sanitation… though I was reading that unsanitary habits were becoming problematic in hospitals again. Staff just don’t wash their hands any more, apparently. Gross.

Anyway, this story was via Wired BodyHack which is a great little blog of interesting science-y things. Here’s a recent selection:
Hand Sanitizer Can Make You Drunk
Inbreeding: Bad for Kings, Good for Fish
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism
Great Moments in Research: Psychologists Are Humble
Brits: Who Needs Orthodontic Braces?
Study: Treatment Possible for Mad Cow Disease

AMAZiNG! Chair does unnatural things

Cathy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:45:35 +0000

I swear this chair must break the laws of physics. The big question thoush is “Is it questionable?”. Ha, I AM tired. Let’s try that sentence again… The big question though is “Is it comfortable?” I think thoush needs to become a word.

Much like this these AMAZING Fletcher Capstan Tables [via BoingBoing] and this freaky walking table:

Don’t drink and skate – especially if you’re a moose

Cathy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:39:40 +0000

Poor moosey…
Drunken Swedish moose drowns after fermented apple binge » Netscape.com

A moose that became inebriated after binging on fermented fallen apples in northern Sweden drowned when it fell through the ice of a frozen inlet, a Swedish tabloid has reported. “The moose appears to have eaten too many fermented apples and become confused out on the ice,” Luleaa police spokesman Erik Kummu told Aftonbladet on Thursday

[via IPKat]

One does not simply WALK into Mordor

Cathy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:07:14 +0000

Ah, more geekiness… as if I don’t have a desk/office/house to clean, work to do, Warcrafting to play etc etc…

This is quite old, I gather, but I only saw it today. You do need to have read/seen/give two figs about the Lord of Rings to appreciate its funniness though. Windows and LOTR, together at last:

And this collection of diaries, I do remember when it did the rounds. Still worth pulling back up, lest I forget. Warning contains mild slash fiction: Lord Of The Rings – Secret Diaries – The bits you didn’t hear about!!

Here’s a choice bit:

The Very Secret Diary of Saruman the White

DAY ONE
Am bored. No cable in Isengard. Nothing to do but write rude anonymous letters to Radagast the Brown and Manfred the Slightly Ecru. Perhaps will have a look at the palantir.

DAY TWO
Have met v. nice guy via palantir. He seems to really like me for me and not just because am most powerful wizard in Middle Earth. Wonder what he looks like.

DAY THREE
Am becoming disenchanted with palantir guy. Refuses to send me photo, except of one v. large eyeball. Says he is shy but I rather suspect he is fat, or perhaps hairy. Have heard some v. bad stories about palantir relationships. Should probably cool it for a while.

A Testament to Lego

Cathy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:30:07 +0000

More biblical jollity, Brendan Powell Smith put out a series of scenes from the Old and New Testaments rendered in lovable Lego. These small hard cover books have made their way into many a Christmas stocking since they were released, but they are also available freely from the creator’s website: The Brick Testament. They are very silly and very funny. Note the frequent use of Stars Wars Lego figures.

10 Things I Hate About Commandments

Cathy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:01:06 +0000

According to the ads at YouTube, you can now “record from your webcam directly to YouTube! No upload needed!”. Yay! That’s all we need, YouTube making it even easier for people to upload their crappy webcam videos.

This, on the other hand, is a quality video. Don’t know what reminded me of it. The title is a mashup of one of my favourite trashy films, 10 Things I Hate About You (which itself was a retelling of Kiss Me Kate/The Taming of the Shrew) and one of those family Easter Biblical Epic standbys The Ten Commandments (was I the only one who felt sorry for the Pharaoh? Oppressive dictators can have their soft side too…). Anyway, it is a hilarious “comedy 3,000 years in the making…”