The Somewhat Ambitious

Taking a leaf out of Wowinsiders book, I’m going to relay a Warcraft-influenced dream I had last night.
I was at the Undercity bank. Alan Tudyk and I were holding hands for some reason, and we rocked up at the bank counter. I realised I was holding a can of Pepsi, and was prompted by Alan [...]

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This morning on the Breakfast Show, I discussed:
- How a Japanese man faked a kidnapping to get a Nintendo Wii, and the possibility that Japanese appliances don’t actually talk, but are accompanied by prankster ventriloquists.
- The viability of the first impending commercial jetpack, and why jumping out of trees with umbrellas doesn’t work.
- The new [...]

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IT Security has posted up a rather interesting list entitled “51 Things You Aren’t Allowed To See on Google Maps”. While the name loses points for creativity, it is nonetheless fairly descriptive. Some favourites:
3. Dick Cheney’s House: The Vice President’s digs at Number One Observatory Circle are obscured through pixelation in Google Earth and Google [...]

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Several of my friends have literature inspired tattoos (from song lyrics to T.S. Eliot quotes), so I was delighted when I came across this online project which charts the tattoos of like-minded people. Some are questionable (I wouldn’t have a page from Fight Club covering my back, partly because nihilism and my spine wouldn’t get [...]

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Here’s a little something to brighten your day.

I don’t generally go in for cutesy videos, but i spotted this over at Boingboing and had to share it. I also hate cats, but there’s something infectious about kittens. If it were possible to buy kittens that never grew up, I’d buy ten of them, teach them [...]

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Hello Dear Reader. Have you noticed yourself growing weary of Paul’s idle patter? Do you feel the need for a new, dynamic voice in the field of somewhat ambitious blogging? Do your socks keep falling down, no matter how high you pull them up your shapely calves? Well, if so, then I may be the [...]

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