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Note to self: Classical Music is good public transport music. Why? Because you are less likely to sing along. People look strangely at you when you sing on the train, for some reason.

I was walking home tonight, and my appearance startled a ‘flock’ of magpies. (Is that the right term? A murder of crows, a choke of magpies? Thinly veiled Port Power joke…) Two of them took off, and flew straight into one another!

I use Gmail as a repository for all of my email, and a place to look at mail when I’m away from my primary computer. I really like the Spam filter - it generally picks up most spam, but not too many false positives. Until today. An update from adsense-support@google.com was flagged as Spam. Made me laugh. Oh, and I still have 49 Gmail invites left. Email matt.schinckel@gmail.com if you want one.

Steve Almond considers Michael Jackson’s dick. I guess someone had to.

via Blog of a Bookslut.

Redshirt.co.uk: Read all about Batman’s Greatest Boner.

Typing Naracoorte into CityBrowser provides some interesting things to chuckle about:

Citybrowser reveals everything about a town! Naracoorte is located on the Keith to Mount Gambier Road, 350 km. Naracoorte was like over 200,000 years ago_. Naracoorte in the heart of the south-east of South Australia and provides visitors the opportunity to purchase direct from. Naracoorte will host. Naracoorte is situated in the south east of South Australia, wine lovers have become to know this popular area as the Limestone Coast region. Naracoorte was founded by Scotsman William MacIntosh in 1845. Naracoorte in the heart of the Limestone Coast. Naracoorte will lead you through to the next wine zone, Wrattonbully, a new wine district._

The one I like best is the one in red above: I thought someone might have been blogging about Naracoorte, and read it as “Naracoorte was, like, over 200,000 years ago”. But a quick Google produced a couple of pages about the Wonambi caves, and “…what Naracoorte was like over 200,000 years ago…” And apparently Naracoorte hosts the biggest tractor and engine rally in March. Might have to go home then… iTunes: Betterman from the album “Triple J Hottest 100 - Volume 9” by John Butler Trio

Did you ever hear the saying “you can’t turn chicken shit into chicken salad?”

The whole idea of Diplomacy is about kissing the right arses. Whether you suck poo out is another matter.

Funniest thing I’ve seen. Ever.

I typed schinckel.blogpsot.com into my browser, wanting to check out the links I had made, but got the address wrong. Have a look - it’s funny if you look at my post a little while ago. I thought some vengeful god was hacking me.