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Lesson one is don’t use animated background on your webpages - the result is truly hideous.
But the content just about makes it bearable:

I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is
stalk them and hope they panic and give in…
I’ve learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
I’ve [...]

Still 4 hours to go here in Scotland, I do find it bizarre that some people are currently in a different year. Like the ‘upside down’ map I posted the other day, it just goes to show that all of our absolute reality is just a matter of perception.
Anyway, are you in 2007 yet? I’m [...]

I found this on A Welsh View and had to share it: A map of the world showing where the death penalty is still in force.

Click on it for the full size version: The red is where the penalty is in full force, blue is abolished/never was, and the others are variations.

I’m in 2 minds [...]

These creatures absolutely fascinate me: Cicada Invasion Begins.

Do any of you live in an areas where these guys show up once every 17 or 13 years? What a strange life cycle, to spend so long underground, pop up, mate & die. I would imagine a lot of their colonies have been built on in the [...]

I had not heard of the Strumpette blog, but if true this story beggars belief.
According to this post on Strumpette from Dec 29th, Amanda Chapel, the main blogger behind the site was seriously injured in a car crash, and as you can see, photos were provided. So far, so horrible, hope she’s going to be [...]

I read the Tricia’s Musings blog regularly and have always found it worth the time. Recently Tricia has asked for some link love for her other blog, and her Husbands blog. In return, I’ll get a link back - all sounds good to me.
So, if you’re after new blogs to read, why not try out:
Celebrity [...]

I’ve been exploring the free services offered by FeedBurner, and this is quite a good one: Subscribe to this blog by email.
This form is now a permanent fixture in my sidebar, though the one in this post should work as well: Simply add your email address, click subscribe & once a day my latest posts [...]

I found this list of the 10 strangest watches over at TechEblog. As I mentioned previously, I have a bit of a fetish for watches, & I wouldn’t mind adding a few of these to my collection. I like this one:

It uses an optical illusion to show the hands and dots over & over, to [...]

This is how you get babies to sleep:

Good party guys? When the twins were this age, it was sometimes tempting. Actually, who am I kidding? It’s tempting at 5… ‘Soco & lime gentlemen?’

Image found on Screwed Minds - whose name is description enough.

This is an interesting view:

Right way up is a subjective thing after all. The world looks really different this way round, it could be a different planet. Full size image here.