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Princess Leia and the pound of Lego flesh

February 16, 2010
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There are a variety of ways in which I am finding this a little unbelievable. It’s not the Lego Star Wars, I have a problem with. It’s not even that anyone would recreate Jabba the Hutt’s barge in Lego. Nor, although my incredulity is growing, is it even that it looks like they’ve painted [...]

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Spam and flagellation

February 8, 2010

There are always those spammers who hope that a piece of general flattery about your blog will tempt you into ignoring the generic unresponsiveness of the comment, or the link embedded in it.
Even while not being fooled, I shall treasure today’s example, which seems to have been through some kind of computer translation programme:
I absolutely [...]

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Misleading sexpectations

February 4, 2010

And another wonderful advert

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Sometimes you just need a drink

February 4, 2010

I’m not quite sure how I missed this advert when it was on.

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A template for truth, or just packaging the news?

February 2, 2010

Charlie Brooker has a wonderful analysis of just how packaged so much of our news is. All he’s left out is the conversation that follows between the anchor and the journalist. It is one of the weird features of this convention in political reporting, that when interviewing the journalist, the anchor needs to appear almost [...]

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When Jesus is not the answer

January 16, 2010

A wonderful take on how not to take your faith to work, from the Fast Show.

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Ratzinger and Dawkins

January 10, 2010

NewsBiscuit brings them together:

Head of the Catholic Church Pope Benedict XIV has joined with leading evangelical atheist Richard Dawkins to declare that, while they may have their differences, the one thing that ticks them off more than anything else is people who, in a debate on the existence of an omniscient creator against the idea [...]

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We’re revolting protesters – and this is our sign

December 9, 2009
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Do check out the best 50 protest signs (I guess this comes with a Puritan Advisory for language). My personal favourite is quite low down at 48.

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On setting fire to the baby Jesus (a Google Ads Oops)

December 8, 2009
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I was looking for a ready typed version of the poem “The Burning Babe” for Christmas card deployment. I found it at this site. The adverts (which I’ve moved over from the far right and covered the audio clip link) focussed on that word “burning”. It is, to say the least, an unfortunate juxtaposition.
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It’s a bad start to the week for satirists

December 7, 2009

A chef is charged with cruelty to animals for killing a rat for food instead of extermination.
Disney World twins with Swindon.
You really couldn’t make it up. How do you do satire when life is this weirdly self-parodying?

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