Why did the blogger cross the road?

Last week I posted about our odd experience at the halal butchery. Inspired, I just had to go back and have a wee dabble. I've taken a photo of the item in question, which will also be featuring as the main ingredient for our dinner tonight.You tell me, does this (frozen) honestly look like any chicken (thawed) you've seen befo...

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Out and about: Sunday web driving.

I'm a little pressed for time so here's a small link dump of a few things that have piqued my interest over the weekend.The Live Beluga webcam in Vancouver, Canada isn't interactive but those cute little guys antics are still very engaging.Those of you feeling trapped and locked into your cellphone contracts finally have Cellswapper.A very easy to use site for those of you looking to opt out of your...

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So very You.

A lot of this week has been spent skurfing loads of great crazy japanese programmes via YouTube. Deep Props has to go out to these guys for the service they provide. Being free, God knows how they're managing to keep it all rolling while making any money out of it. Bandwidth costs alone are apparently running in excess of $1 million US dollars/per month and climbing.So cheers guys and while it's all...

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How to make a hipster record bowl.

I love collecting vinyl and like any good collection I have quite a few crappy ones/double ups and down right stupid purchases( ie Duran Duran-Hungry like the wolf.)So seeing as theres a weekend coming up and if you're feeling crafty, here's a quick...

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Oooh yeah..Sweet Design Porn.

How uber-deck must the guys and gal's over at 'atypyk' be?Call me a trendfollowing materialistic consumer design whore if you'd like, but I am totally infactuated with their tight and often hilarious product line.I mean, look at these products below...

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London Calling?

Maybe it's all the sweltering brain-poaching heat they've been experiencing lately, but travellers heading to the UK should be warned there is strangeness afoot in London.Street WarsLondoners have begun a city-wide role-playing game where people roam...

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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck if a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?

Of course it has yet to be conclusively proven but I feel that it is reasonably safe to assume the answer to this famous tongue twister is pretty close to f--k all zero.Contrary to popular belief, Woodchucks (or ground hogs) aren't particularly keen...

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Eclectic Eccentric Entropy.

Pro-noi-a.n.The opposite of paranoia, pronoia is defined as the sneaking suspicion that the whole world is secretly conspiring to shower you with blessings.I realise now that the above picture I took, while filled to the brim with crazy items and worth...

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Smack my kids up?

As a minister of the clergy myself, I'm completely behind a persons right to choose their own religon and their freedom to express and exercise their personal beliefs.How ever surely you know you're going to be rightly labelled as a redneck fundamentalist...

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Flatlife.

Jonas Geirnaert graduation project "FLATLIFE" (2004), selected for Short Films in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2004.Mostly just an excuse to try Google Videos 'send to blog option' I've just noticed sitting in the side bar. That's pretty cool. ...

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When is redmeat not redmeat? When it's chicken.

We had a dubious encounter today at the halal butcher shop we frequent that's had me scratching my head. Readers of my earlier post would recall I already think quite a bit about this subject and it's probably nothing but what would you think?Sue reached into the freezer and pulled out what she thought was lamb mince mislabelled as chicken mince because, (a picture here would have been really great...

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Awesome Caption Swag Giveaway.

The last couple of weeks have proved to be pretty average and lack luster round here and I apologise for the poor quality of content in my contributions to the blog (maybe the 1% rule also applies to things worth posting to your blog?)So how about this...

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xkcd.

A wee while ago, I caught wind of this great webcomic, xkcd, and I keep forgetting to make a post on it before the memestream also catch the vapors and it churns it's way into the .old category.xkcd rather aptly describes itself as "a webcomic of romance,...

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"Greetings 8-bit Over Lords."

If you too are excited and obsessed by the inevitable invasion of your city by the 'space invaders', you'll probably be into this impressive piece of stop-motion animation I've recently stumbled over.It must have taken some keen organisation to pull this off and should serve as a reminder of the zen saying. The more things change, the more things stay the sa...

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Random idea #17.

Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm do...

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Random idea #355.

I am neither a Trekkie, Nasa Space Buff or active S.E.T.I. enthusiast - but there are some ideas about our place in this universe that have been making the rounds in the neural pathways that make up the network that is my brain ...Imagine for one moment somewhere out there is a highly developed alien civilization existing one billion light years from earth. Now let's say for curiosities sake, this...

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Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

This post bangs out loud to the members of the deep rolling Quest set.A reaction to the winter blues probably was right, but Friday was the end of it and just like that I'm out like super tapered stone washed jeans.Cheers, you guys are down like clowns and if you're ever keen to join me for a non caffeinated beverage sometime, it's my b...

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Too Much Coffee Man?

I am prepared to admit it.I might have a bit of a drinking problem.I am a Caffiend. But at least for now, I am a functioning Caffiend.I get up around 5:45am and start up with a fresh glass of 'V8' fruit juice and a Berocca tablet. Then I try to get into...

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Midweek at the watering hole.

Here's a dark video of a Russian Candid Camera prank gone horribily wrong. The surprise ending promises to shock, certainly made me laugh, but then I embrace the darkside.Also any cat loving readers may wish to consider the 'Tabby Tote' the newest feline transportation system that's currently making the rounds. (It's no 'Bonsai kittens' but it's a star...

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On his way to St. Ives?

Louis Wain was born in London’s Clerkenwell district in 1860 and eventually became an artist, selling his sketches of dog shows to the Illustrated Sporting News. He married his youngest sister's governess, Emily Richardson, which was considered quite...

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Here's A Stupid way to Increase your Blog Traffic.

I been wrestling with the consequences and I figure I deserve being baked under the spotlight of the NSA and their Eschelon Project and whatever other trolls this post will no doubt trawl for even considering posting this, but here goes.(I'll even help...

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Wood is the new black.

Well my weekend is almost over which is a shame but I feel optimistic about the coming week.Yesterday was a gorgeous clear day so we packed up our kit and went for a leisurely drive around the bays, on the lurk for some decent fish 'n chips.As we veered...

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Are you in my pocket like so many nickles and dimes?

I've stolen this idea from friend of mine (Glenn who is a 'Ginger Kid', but we're not holding that against him right now) he first told me this idea 3 or 4 years ago and much like trepanning I've toiled over having it done ever since.I've approached several plastic surgeons both here and abroad but I am yet to receive any positive news and I guess I'm asking for some assistance from any readers out...

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11:11 the magic posting hour.

I'm pretty useless this week. I've left it all too late and now I'm both stuck and out of time for an idea to suddenly surface for today's daily post. I guess while I await an epiphany, you could attempt 'Einsteins maze', probably the hardest maze I've...

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Bah. Where is the Love?

I'm a fairly upbeat type of guy most of the time but this weeks been a real Goatse.Maybe it's a combination of the almost constant in your face torrential rain we've been experiencing and chilling screeching wind hardup against the backdrop of the bleak grey city, but I'm feeling drained from the constant need to "be on" and I'm not exactly feeling the love right now.Tomorrows Friday and I can't wait...

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By George by Crumb!

A little bit of culture shall we?I have to admit I've only recently been switched onto him, but how amazing is George Crumb?Not to be confused with another visionary with a very similar name George Crum (the inventor of potato chip), Crumb is an American...

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Donna Huata can taste my sacks.

This one's for you Donna Awatere Huata. It's too bad your vision and passion to set up a 4 minute reading programme to teach young Maori to read wasn't as driven as your passion for dipping into the kitty now and then eh girl? Which is a shame because...

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WWJD? Which Would Jesus Do?

Well it's late, it's a Monday and I'm more than a little drunk right now (After a small rinseout with cousin 'middle T' chairman Pickles) So this image will have to suffice as a post (comments welcomed) Or if that fails to wet your appetite, perhaps...

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So much meat for so little money.

In the wee small hours of a Saturday morning way back in 2002, I was off my face and just happened to stagger into a queue at Burger King for a bit of quick drunken nosh on the way home. I remember peering at the menu boards and then at the young man...

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Tigers Are Every Where.

Tigers are Everywhere.In the trees and on the ground,Tigers can be found.But when Tigers sleep.It's best to crawl and creep,around the Jungle,Whilst it's dark.It began as in inside joke, but now I would imagine that there is only one reader who would truly fully appreciate the above poem of mine.Today I received this very impressive piece of congratulations mail, expressing that out of thousands...

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