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This story is a lot nicer, though the child is considerably younger. A friend’s young nephew went to see Walking with the Dinosaurs on the weekend. He was eating onion rings, but didn’t finish them. When asked why not, he said he was keeping them to feed the dinosaurs. Later he got upset when the dinosaurs went away in the break and asked his mother where they had gone. She replied to the bathroom. He believed her. Apparently the dinosaurs were very impressive.

A young strident blonde was overhead, presumably to a parent, on her mobile phone:

If you can’t provide for my every need then you shouldn’t have gone and had children then should you?!

Charming.

I’m finally catching up on the extended DVDs of the Lord of Rings. I actually sat through the marathon of the 3 normal length ones when the third one came out, from memory I think it started at 9pm and went until 7am the next day. It was brilliant, but horrible getting home afterwards. I was planning to do a marathon of the extended versions but it didn’t really happen, I’m part way through the first disc of third part now. During the second part, I had this annoying half song playing in my head but I couldn’t put my finger on the tune, all I knew it was one of those viral videos a while ago so I went and did a google search “lord of the rings remix” and it was the first link that turned up – They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard by Erwin Beekveld. Then strangely enough, a minute later the scene turns up. Aragorn: “What do your elven eyes see?” Legolas: “The Uruks turn Northeast. They are taking the hobbits to Isengard!”. I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s a very silly movie.

Here’s the video:

Just made this carol (from zefrank.com/xmas/). See how long you can listen to it before it starts to hurt.

In the huge pile of videos posted to Boing Boing in the last post, I found this story about how photoshop stops you scanning in money because of government petitioning. Well US and EU money at least, they didn’t mention the Australian stuff but it could well be included. So even though there’s plenty of legal things you can do with a scanned image of a banknote, it assumes that you’re going to use it for counterfeiting and just bans you from opening it (or printing anything with it in it depending on your version). Blah!

Here’s a workaround in a video podcase from Deke McLelland using Adobe’s Image Ready which “isn’t very smart”. [link, direct link to podcast]. He also links to RulesForUse.org which is a really simple site that tells you what the law is in your country re: reproduction of currency images.

I don’t know why I like machinima so much, must be that hole in my brain but this is quite funny not just by my low standards hopefully. It’s been made with captured footage from World of Warcraft, starring a Tauren (cattle humanoid) and a Troll.

The Internet is for Porn:

Was trying to remember this idea the other night, all I could remember was that it was from somebody who did triangles and his name started with a “p” and it WASN’T Pythagoras. Anyway it’s been killing me for the past few days and google searches didn’t help. I knew it was someone really famous and it would be obvious if I could just get the name. In the end I found a list of mathematicians beginning with P on Wikipedia. It was Pascal! Yay! Anyway here’s a link to his triangle and his wager (that was the idea whose attribution was annoying me so).

Some Surrey council was going to do a cull of pigeons and this was reported on The Surrey Comet website. They shut down the comments but some of them are really quite funny, here’s a selection:

Posted by Martin Wildoat on 10:56am Wed 29 Nov 06
I agree with this action. Pigeons carry all manner of diseases like AIDS, malaria, rabies and mad cow disease to name but a few. They are also very aggressive and I can vouch for this as I was attacked by a flock and pecked severely while on my way home from flower arranging classes. In fact I would be more than happy to help in the killing of these evil creatures. Well done Kingston council keep up the good work.

Posted by: Stephanie Baxendale on 8:03pm Wed 29 Nov 06
Why not just round these flying rats up in a big net? Surely the council could find some practical use, for example setting up a tasty pigeon pie stall in the centre of town. I for one would be grateful to see these horrific beasts removed from the Royal borough altogether! They are a nuisance, and also the flying wizards of Satan. There, I’ve said it.

Posted by: Mr Dallinger on 9:57pm Wed 29 Nov 06
I think the correct solution would be to hack the wings off as many pigeons as possible before joining them together to create one large wing. This could be wafted at the pigeons by any member of the townsfolk when numbers got too high. Children could also shelter under it at times of heavy rain or possibly loud thunder.

Posted by: Norman Ski on 10:13pm Wed 29 Nov 06
This is preposterous! Pigeons performed a vital role in assisting communications in both World Wars and should therefore be encouraged to breed in higher numbers in order to remind us that we must never forget. Perhaps the money would be better spent erecting a large memorial of a Rock Pigeon or perhaps a Feral Pigeon – I’ll leave that decision to the council. I don’t think a Wood Pigeon memorial would be particularly appropriate because I don’t think they did too much for us during the war. Other than food.

Posted by: Fancy Coo-Coo on 12:57pm Thu 30 Nov 06
I’m horrified at the very idea anyone might want to harm these gentle creatures. I myself was raised by pigeons after being abandoned in Trafalgar Square as a young nipper. Therefore I know how noble and generous a species they really are. If anyone were to kill a pigeon in this way, it would be as though they are slaughtering one of my own family. It’s murder, I say!

Posted by: Free Willy on 3:24pm Thu 30 Nov 06
I know what you mean, reader. I was raised by yaks but I’m sure the experience was similar. How about a council worker cull instead.

Posted by: Peter Dove on 11:01am Wed 6 Dec 06
I simply cannot believe that so many people are pigeonist. Pigeons perform a vital role within today’s society and should not be treated as vermin. Love pigeons. Love yourself.

From XKCD today, those who know me will know its particular significance:

Apparently 2006 was the year of “you” media according to Time mag. No arguments there. What is freaky is how much Time mag editor, Richard Stengel looks like David Walliams from Little Britain.

Richard Stengel (with Time magazine):

David Walliams (with Matt Lucas):