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Archive: 2005 April

Leaflet review

30 April 2005 22:10

Categories: Fife, Politics, Scotland, UK General Election 2005

For ages it felt like we were ignored around here. Few leaflets, and just the odd poster — no less than three from the Lib Dems, and one from UKIP in Kirkcaldy. It is a very safe Labour seat, so it’s not really surprising. But at last, a pile of leaflets have landed on the doormat in the past couple of days.

(Update: What is interesting is that none of the parties seem to have mentioned the environment at all. I would have thought that, with the Greens not standing here, somebody would have at least mentioned it.)

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Five facts

30 April 2005 21:57

Categories: Asides, Politics, UK General Election 2005

Five facts.

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Dodgy translations

29 April 2005 19:49

Categories: Humour, Internet, Music, Technology

Another meme, via Zootm. This time it’s a Google Language Tools one.

You type in the lyrics to a song, then translate it into German, then from German into French, then from French back into English.

So which song is this supposed to be?

Stars leave clouds of sleep my opinion, do not make them come more and require you, I did not consider it, were a crime too a small number, did not consider me, are him a crime with the faith, me tried to only sleep, me not to make it could however, you could have sat close to me, and I would not know the morning, him not, if I declared you that you were false, not points out me to me to say

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URL ABCs

29 April 2005 19:19

Categories: Humour, Internet, Technology

A new meme, via New Links. Type “a” in your address bar and see what comes up. There are some bloody weird results, mostly because I’ve not even used this computer for the past week! And it only contains the history from whenever I last cleared out my history. Ahem.

  1. audioscrobbler.com — Audioscrobbler
  2. bloglines.com — Bloglines
  3. codex.wordpress.org — WordPress Codex
  4. doctorvee.co.uk — massive ego (actually, the admin section so there!)
  5. en.wikipedia.org — Wikipedia
  6. fun-1.org — Fun-1
  7. google.com — Mozilla Firefox Start Page
  8. hurryupharry.bloghouse.net — Harry’s Place
  9. icnetwork.co.uk — icNetwork
  10. jamiemcmorrin.blogspot.com — The Moral Highground
  11. kinja.com — Kinja
  12. livejournal.com — LiveJournal
  13. mysociety.org — mySociety
  14. news.bbc.co.uk — BBC News
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  16. politics.co.uk — Politics.co.uk
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  18. returningofficers.blogspot.com — The Returning Officers
  19. sitemeter.com — Site Meter
  20. theherald.co.uk — The Herald
  21. ukip.org — doh!
  22. visibone.com — Visibone Webmaster’s Color Lab
  23. weblogtoolscollection.com — Weblog Tools Collection
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Biased BBC

29 April 2005 18:54

Categories: Humour, Politics, Television, UK General Election 2005

Those dirty liberals!!!

Channel 4 has been forced to apologise to the Green party after mistakenly transmitting its election broadcast with subtitles from the UK Independence Party…

The Green spokesman said Channel 4 told his party that the erroneous subtitles – which ran for three of the broadcast’s five minutes – were added as a result of “human error” at BBC Broadcast, the company responsible for adding the subtitles. However, the Green election broadcast shown on other channels had the correct subtitles.

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