This morning I received a message from Harper Collins.

Hello electricinca

Your selected author, Neal Stephenson, has the following new book(s) going on sale in two weeks!

The Confusion: Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle (Hardcover). For more information about this book go to:
http://www.harpercollins.com/rd_om/authortracker/book/0060523867

Best regards,

HarperCollins Publishers

I should soon be receiving the copy of 'The Confusion: Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle' that I pre-ordered from Amazon, I can't wait.

http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld

Ze Frank is becoming more and more like a stand-up comic in his little movies. Genius

The Passion of the Christ is bringing the weirdos out of the woodwork at my cinema.

Quote: My husband and I haven't been to the cinema in 30 years but we'll be sure to come and see it.

I am left wondering if they have any idea of what the movie will actually be like.

Customer: Can I have a ticket for Passion of the Christ.
Cashier: I'm afraid it isn't playing yet. It starts on Friday 9th April.
Customer: I must be drunk then.

What the hell does he mean slab?

The term refers to getting a comic professionally graded by Comics Guaranty, LLC (CGC) who will then seal it in a comic book holder as can be seen here.


There has been some controversy recently concerning the slabbing of new comics with extremely high grades i.e. the comic is in mint condition and then auctioning them on eBay at hugely inflated prices.

But I shall not be doing that. I am considering whether it makes sense to slab the following comics that I am considering selling.

Batman #155
Elseworlds 80-page Giant
Ultimate Spider-Man #1

There is some financial sense in doing so if I am definitely going to sell as CGC graded comics are currently selling at a premium.

For some strange reason the movie Mazes and Monsters popped into my head today. I'd seen it on TV as a kid and only vaguely remembered it but I was finally able to track it down at the Internet Movie Database. Bizarrely the lead character is played by Tom Hanks which I did not remember.

Former prison cook Brian Price writes of his experiences preparing the last meal for death row inmates

An excerpt: "Last-meal requests were always released to the media exactly the way the state received them. But like Buxton's filet mignon, many of the meals that prisoners wanted were replaced with less expensive or more accessible alternatives, which forced me to be creative in honoring prisoners' wishes. The policy of the Texas Department of Corrections was that only food items kept on hand in the Walls Unit kitchen commissary and butcher shop could be used. If the condemned asked for lobster, for example, he would be served a filet of processed fish. The last real steak I prepared was in 1993. Afterward, hamburger steaks were subbed in. Most vegetables came out of cans. Requests for large quantities of food were pared down to more practical servings. David Allen Castillo requested 24 tacos in 1998 and got 4."

A photo journal of a motorcycle ride through the area around Chernobyl.
From the website: "My name is Elena, I run this site and I don't sell anything in here and to tell the true, I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my bike and this absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and speed demon take me to."

The 2004 Abel prize-winners have been announced.
From the website: 'The Atiyah-Singer index theorem is one of the great landmarks of twentieth century mathematics, influencing profoundly many of the most important later developments in topology, differential geometry and quantum field theory. Its authors, both jointly and individually, have been instrumental in repairing a rift between the worlds of pure mathematics and theoretical particle physics, initiating a cross-fertilization which has been one of the most exciting developments of the last decades.'

Ephebophilia also known as hebephilia is the sexual attraction of an adult to adolescents.

Ephebophilia is not considered a disorder or perversion. It is natural for adult men to have a sexual attraction to especially young girls. However, the people attracted to may be below the age of consent, also depending on the jurisdiction.

Often paedophilia and ephebophilia are confused. The reason for this is that definitions of the legal age and the biological age of a child conflict. According to some catholics, the child abuse cases in the American church often have nothing to do with paedophilia, but instead are instances of ephebophilia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia

Algolagnia
n. taking sexual pleasure in inflicting or enduring pain.
algolagnic, a. algolagnist, n.
Tiscali reference

Dave Sim is my new Lord and master, I have read his essay Tangents and he has converted me to his woman/homosexual/socialist hating ways. I shall now listen to Rush Limbaugh as well.
You can read it too, tangents.pdf.

THis will mean a complete change of personality for me and I shall have to dump all my friends the commie fags that they are.

For those of a mathematical bent try this tangents.pdf

The story of how the designer of the Laughing Cow cheese earrings became the chief designer at the Department of Homeland Security in his own words.

Labels: Security

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

This has been featured on many other weblogs but I thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon.

My favourites.

card shark	cardsharp	Cardsharps probably won't eat you alive, though they are adept at cutting your purse strings.
elec'toral	e'lectoral	The accent is on the second, not the third, syllable and there is no [i] in it (not "electorial").
For all intensive purposes	For all intents and purposes	The younger generation is mispronouncing this phrase so intensively that it has become popular both as a mispronunciation and misspelling.
Heineken remover	Heimlich manoeuvre	This term is mispronounced many different ways. This is just the funniest one we have heard. This manoeuvre was named for US surgeon Henry Jay Heimlich (1920- ).
sherbert	sherbet	Some of the same people who do not like two [r]s in their words can't help repeating the one in this word.
volumptuous	voluptuous	Some voluptuous women may be lumpy, but please avoid this Freudian slip that apprises them of it.

Spam is so popular in the Philippines that the owner of Spamjam, a restaurant where every dish features the tinned meat, is planning to open two more branches. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3550043.stm

Spam takes Filipino palates by storm

More spam

Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.

Dihydrogen monoxide:

- is also known as hydroxl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
- contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
- may cause severe burns.
- contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
- accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
- may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
- has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.
- Contamination is reaching epidemic proportions!

Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.

Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:

- as an industrial solvent and coolant.
- in nuclear power plants.
- in the production of styrofoam.
- as a fire retardant.
- in many forms of cruel animal research.
- in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
- as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
- Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!

The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilize it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.

For more details see http://www.dhmo.org/.

I am especially shocked about it's use in the dairy industry where cows are being forced to ingest huge quantities of the substance to increase milk production.

Excellent spoof here titled The Singhsons

British inventor Colin Mayhew details his project "Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini Cooper r50" at the following site. http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

The site is incredibly detailed with sketches of his initial design ideas to videos of his creation in action. This is truly a remarkable advance in robotic design that only a maverick working outside the confines of a rigid corporate environment could achieve.

Unfortunately this is not real but the detail and effort that has gone into the creation of the site is amazing. I'm not sure if it is a bizarre advert for Mini Cooper created by BMW and unleashed onto the Internet or if Colin Mayhew is a real person that has created this brilliant masterpiece all by himself.

More of Natalie Dee's crazy drawings available at http://www.nataliedee.com/

Thanks to John McMahon of Straight to Hell for this link.

Channel 4 in their '20 questions' series of promos for their channel have had a recent ad banned but it is viewable on their site at the link below.
http://www.channel4.com/ads/index1.html

The six numbers on my ticket for todays UK National Lottery. This is an experiment to influence the collective unconscious of the population of the UK and manipulate the numbers that are drawn tonight.

Based upon the evidence that the number 13 is the least drawn number in the history of the National Lottery I have concluded that the collective unconscious has some effect on the numbers drawn and hence a number considered unlucky would be rarely drawn.

I propose to channel my chosen numbers into the collective unconscious and increase the likelihood of their being drawn tonight. I may be slighty mad and a bit drunk but by Monday I shall have returned to reality.

It is that time of year again when my age increments and my tolerance for alcohol degrades.

"Davina McCall's placenta from when she had the bambino."
- Avid Merrion

-The main reason I went into medicine was for the laughs, that and the pussy.
-Egg in soup. The food of champions.
-You're the most sensitive person I know and I know God.
-I'm a one track lover down a two-way lane.
Words copyright Garth Marenghi.

Garth Marenghi is the most prolific horror writer in the UK see more of his beautiful words at http://www.garthmarenghi.com

ER Helicopter crash maniacs
Fucking hell carnage central
You okay? Just a little dizzy
Hypertension with a rigid belly
http://www.nbc.com/ER/episode_guide/212.html

We need a lightbulb. Steal the bulb from the shower block. Good, no one saw us take it. We march. We are marched back to our stables. Why do they force us to live in stables? Darkness falls. The bugs come out to feast upon our bodies. They feast then regenerate our flesh. I must kill Fred Astaire, he's not really Fred Astaire. I must strangle him until he stops looking like Fred Astaire.