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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." Chuck Reid

Escape-A-Date! - Cingular Wireless to the rescue! (via metafilter)

Eight randomly-generated humorous scripts are offered, here's a snip from one:
Hey, this is your escape-a-date call. If you're looking for an excuse, I got it. Just repeat after me, and you'll be on your way!
"Not again! Why does that always happen to you? ... Alright, I'll be right there." Now tell 'em that your roommate got locked out, and you have to go let them in. Good luck!"
(from boingboing)

The Extreme Gravity Racing Series: featuring cars from Porsche, Volvo, and mazda among others. Yeah, it's basically soap box derby racing for adults.
(from red ferret via metafilter)

From the Far East:
For him: Virtual girlfriend on his cellphone.
For her: Boyfriend Arm Pillow: "a snuggly alternative to the real thing."
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"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over." Edna St. Vincent Millay

Search Results from Sour Bob

Learn these Australian slang words and phrasesand you'll feel at home on your first day Down Under Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand.
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate

Under rules introduced last month, Australians - and Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Americans - must prove they have a good grasp of English to become UK citizens. Under the new rules, all migrants wanting British passports must prove sufficient English knowledge, the easiest means to which is gaining an English for Speakers of Other Languages certificate.

Those who speak English as their first language cannot sign up, however - they need written confirmation from a designated person that they have an equivalent qualification. Proof can be obtained by having a chat with a designated person.

The trouble is that the Home Office has not yet decided who the designated judges will be.
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Well, we cater for all the mucus-eating, lobotomized psychiatric out-patients and rump-wrecked, Internet riff-raff who ramble into our Hall of Vitriol.
These fun insult generators custom-make an unique insult every time you click. The Art of Insult reduced to an algorithm - millions of insults mathematically possible! Random Insult Generators
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up." W. Somerset Maugham

Yes, really - a Lego guitar.

The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer. Learn about Onomatopoeias.
(via realoneil)

Scanit's Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems. When the test is finished you get a complete report explaining the discovered vulnerabilities, their impact and how to eliminate them. Browser Check - How vulnerable you are?

"This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool."
The creator updates and reformats the malleable map based completely on capricious, erroneous geographical inconsistencies found within oblvious statements from his comment logs. Fool's World Map.
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