A Pastafarian wins religious freedom right to wear pasta strainer for driving licence – Telegraph
“An Austrian has won the right to be photographed wearing a pasta strainer for his driving licence on grounds of religious freedom. “
From the comments section:
“I’m a Frisbeetarian. I believe that when you die your soul goes up on the garage roof and gets stuck.”
Learn more about Pastafarianism and the Flying spaghetti monster here
Most Jamaicans believe UK rule better according to poll – Telegraph
Maybe we should do a swop… Jamaica for Scotland?
To be honest, I really doubt that this is true.
John Mock and Kimberley ONeil have 30 years of experience of trekking in the Hindu Kush and other mountain ranges. If you like mountains then I’d recommend this site as it lists a lot of resources.
“Dyson spheres need great big walls
To keep the world from spilling out
They make them out of buckyballs
And use gravitons for grout”
Originally found at http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/dysonFAQ.html but the site is no longer active
On this day in 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society, some 186 years later and a replica of one of Babbage’s machines can be found in the Virtual World mod Second Life:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Highlands/230/126/38
Second Life Difference Engine created by Independent State of Caledon resident Paul Churchill
Update 2024: Although ‘The Independent State of Caledon’ is still active and very much alive inside Second Life the Caledon Highlands sim is no more and I was unable to track down the difference engine in world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
“On Mr. Babbage’s new machine for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables…”
Some 186 years later and a replica of one of Babbage’s machines can be found in a Virtual World:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Highlands/230/126/38
Second Life Difference Engine created by Independent State of Caledon resident Paul Churchill
Update 2024: Although ‘The Independent State of Caledon’ is still active and very much alive inside Second Life the Caledon Highlands sim is no more and I was unable to track down the difference engine in world.
Other Second Life related pages can be found here
Some mature category Library Porn for you, just look at those racks…
Duke Humfrey Reading Room, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
By Diliff – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
This is a UK stub
Scared of bees is now only available via the web archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/20210613083637/http://scaredofbees.com/
Luckily, many of the images can still be viewed there. Nathan Mazur has a nice style and the images can be amusing.
original URL =http://www.scaredofbees.com/
http://www.pbase.com/mattis/image/23597945
Cloister Salisbury Cathedral
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Take this Little Britain quiz to see which character you are
Which “Little Britain“ character are you??
Kenny Craig
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Update 2022: always nice when the links still work after 16+ years
Update 2024: it stopped working