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Boing Boing: Gamers are better at multitasking And I would have gone back the other way. Jaq can’t talk to me and expect a response when I’m gaming.

Boing Boing: Atheist group offers free porn in exchange for Bibles Say no more.

I’ve been doing some study as part of my work: a Language and Literacy course run by the Department of Education & Children’s Services (SA). I’ve enjoyed it greatly, in part because I am a pedant and love to pick stuff to bits. To that end, another document put out by DECS, XPress, had the following in an article on page 19, December 1 2005 issue:

Henley HS remembers … and learns [snip] Henley HS teacher Sean Fletcher worked with an all boys Special Sport middle school class to initiate and research the war, during which time students constructed a replica of an observation trench, researching its dimensions to make it realistic.

(non-heading emphasis mine)

And I thought the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand had something to do with the start of the war…

One of my students today told me she had seen a poster for a band named after me. I did a little research (they played at Flinders Uni last Friday), and came up with this poster:

As you can see, it’s pretty close. You can read about this band over on Music SA’s Schickel page, or the Official Schickel Website, and even listen to a track. It’s not too bad, actually.

BeeDogs - If..Else Log

Beedogs.com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.

Sort of implies there are several repositories, doesn’t it?

Why is it that girls in underwear ads always hug each other? Is that what girls do? Get together in their underwear, and hug?

Three posts I posted over the past week or so each received some Trackback Spam today: The bizarre thing is that the URI of each of them is http://spam.com Which is the SPAM (ie, the food, Spiced Ham!) homepage.

Daisy Duke Dances For You. Best. Thing. Ever. (Thanks to Ash Green for the link!)

On the way to get a new brushcutter on Saturday, we saw an Ice-Cream van being fixed up by the RAA. Since I had a brand new camera-phone, I just had to take a photo.

Tried to shut down the other night, got this interesting dialog: At least I knew what button to click on!