This is so neat!

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Very unwell. And apparently getting more so. I’m starting to work my way through all the usual stages to make sure of where the problem is — replacing the monitor driver, installing new display drivers for the card (it’s a Radeon 9800), running diagnostics — but at the moment, here’s what I’ve got.
 

…Not much to say […]

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…for rigorous medicine applied to that often non-medically-rigorous venue, the comics. The most recent example, quoted at length (and there’s more at source — I trimmed it a little):

Dr. Koslowski (narrating): Dr. Singh decided to inject 5ccs of Adrenalin directly into the Joker’s heart. It was our only chance to save thousands of lives.

Injecting medication directly […]

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Today’s delights from LJ’s Metaquotes community:

Deep Ones! Meet the Deep Ones! / They’re a rugose, squamous familyyyyy…
“…OH CHRIST WHO LET JOKER HAVE PENCILS!?”
…In these days “batshit” literally meant the shit of bats, and flame wars were conducted via snail mail or newspaper editorials.

And:

Trek and Stargate: kindred under the skin

 
Tags: metaquotes, LiveJournal, select, choices, highlights

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Two World of Warcraft players use treadmills to run around Azeroth: almost suffer heart attack
(Thanks to Christy Marx for this.)
 
Tags: World+of+Warcraft, running, treadmill, players, online+gaming, MMORPG, Christy+Marx

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This is a fun thing. Turn the text content of your blog, website or other RSS-source into graphic art…
Tags: Wordle, graphic, text, website, blog, RSS

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By Harvey Nichols, yet.
 
Tags: Wallace, Gromit, makeover, Harvey+Nichols, Harvey+Nicks, clothes, fashion, Lady+Campanula, Tottington

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This is fun.
(via Cynical-C Blog) 
 
Tags: telescopic, text, fun, words

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In today’s “moos:“

German scientists using satellite images posted online by the Google Earth software program have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands of years: Cattle grazing or at rest tend to orient their bodies in a north-south direction just like a compass needle.
Studying photographs of 8,510 cattle […]

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Baby Bariatrics
(Gazelle milk, huh?) 
Tags: gazelle, milk, chubby, baby, bariatrics, spoof

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Beth’s boss Amanda Palmer lost her jacket in Hamburg while on tour. (And has lost and broken some other things too, and is sad about them generally, but really misses that jacket.)
Have you seen it? Or have you seen one just like it that she could get as a replacement?
Please help if you can!
(via Neil […]

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A lot of traffic finds its way to Out of Ambit via Google. Some of the searches (as they display in the system / stats logs) are interesting. A selection from the last few days: 
“Diane Duane” mormon
I’m not.
best crumpet recipe
That’s over here. (Or here.)
creator of wolverine
You’re looking for my old friend Len Wein.
afterlife money
(blink) What??
 
 
 
 
 

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