New MP3 from Dude Dude Chick: I’m the Man in the Changing Room (ca. 3.5 MB).
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You’ve certainly gotten a chain email or two in your life. And admit it: the first time it happened, you sent it on, disregarding any voice of reason from your gut or from anyone a little older or more experienced. Oh how young we were…

Now we are older, more skeptical, more bitter, more vindictive. Whenever I get one of those damn chain-mailings, I do a quick search on a site like Break the Chain and forward the link back to sender, along with a lusty e-toungue-lashing. Those jackbooted fools who murdered my sense of wonder.

Anyhooties, you are all hip to the Microsoft fwd-this-email-we-track-it-and-pay-you-cash BS. In this article here they get to the bottom of it. Skip the banalities of the first page; it gets interesting at the bottom half of page two. Yes, they found the originator of the hoax; more interestingly, they showed that said originator is not up for a sound smiting.

Here’s That text we used today and yesterday. Wednesday folks, don’t look; we might still use it tomorrow.

Sweet!

A photoshop contest for Dresden’s own Frauenkirche!

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I don’t know why, but stories like this one make my eyes go bloodshot and endorphines squirt around in my brain.

SALT LAKE CITY June 25, 2004 ? For more than 50 years, rancher Waldo Wilcox kept most outsiders off his land and the secret under wraps: a string of ancient Indian settlements so remarkably well-preserved that arrowheads and beads are still lying out in the open.

The site was occupied for at least 3,000 years until it abandoned more than 1,000 years ago, when the Fremont people mysteriously vanished.

I get this weird feeling also when I look at pictures of James Hampton’s throneroom, or of UNIVAC, or when I listen to Debussy’s “Sunken Cathedral”, or when I hold my crash cymbal, a 90 year old made-in-Istanbul Zildjian K, on my lap and appreciate its hand-hammering.

On the other hand, my favorite part in This Is Spinal Tap is the Stonehenge scene. I laugh till I cry everytime.

I took this online colortest and it turns out I am colorblind as a colorbat. It’s not funny. Think you can score any better?

BBC --The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo.

Ilunga means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".

That’s easy: that’s a “kristin” (my fourth of seven wives) nyuk nyuk nyuk….

Seriously, though. Places one and two are hard enough, but they shoulda asked the Saxons about number three.

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And now for some lowbrow (reads: crude) humor at the expense Cologne’s second best-known odor: the Kelly Family.
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Your input will be a significant one. We should
cherish it with a view to facilitating the proceeding of this
study. — Ancient Taiwanese Proverb

My mom, who works at a University in Nashville, got this email from a university in Taiwan regarding some kind of study. Nobody could figure out what the hell they wanted, so it was forwarded to me, instead.

Subject: Survey questionnaire for international institutions from
Taiwan Da-Yeh university.

Dear Faculty,staff
First, we thank you for taking time to fill in especially this questionnaire. This is a questionnaire pertaining to an academic study with objective chiefly to understand factors underlying the
development of self-owned education branded commemoratory merchandise by higher educational institute; it is expected to have results that serve as a basis on which institute may in future
develop merchandise as well as references provided to educational institutions in Taiwan that wish to develop their own branded merchandises...
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Hey, I thought you guys were supposed to be closed. Never fear, they said, we will at the end of this week — for real this time. Then they’re gonna move.