Ironic

Posted on May 8, 2010 by blogmywiki

Hey Alanis, now this really is Ironic: the party that said it wouldn’t do a deal with a party that came third in the popular vote, and which says the electoral system is unfair, came in third place in popular vote and third in the number of MPs. This party is now holding the balance of power. 

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Cunning plan

Posted on April 29, 2010 by blogmywiki

Labour candidates crashing cars, getting arrested, slagging off pensioners and now seemingly breaking electoral law. On Twitter. What next ?!? I’m starting to think it’s all a cunning ruse by Labour after that alleged Mervyn King comment about the party who wins this election being so unpopular they’ll be out of power for a generation.

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Random Tannoy announcements

Posted on April 26, 2010 by blogmywiki

“Attention please, the sandwich man is in the main newsroom.”

“Sandwiches are now in the newsroom.”

“There are now two sandwich men in the newsroom.” (At which point I shout ‘FIGHT!’)

“There is now mayonnaise on the carpet of the main newsroom.”

“Will the Daily Politics runner please run past Radio Record, tossing her hair in a Harmony Hairspray commercial kind of way?”

“And again, please.”

“Could someone from This Week come to reception. I’m bored.”

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Ultimate Guide to xkcd, part 2

Posted on April 23, 2010 by blogmywiki

Choice strips from numbers 301-601.

xkcd.com/308/ – interesting life
xkcd.com/314/ – dating pools
xkcd.com/323/ – ballmer peak
xkcd.com/327/ – exploits of a mom
xkcd.com/334/ – wasteland
xkcd.com/349/ – success
xkcd.com/363/ – reset
xkcd.com/374/ – journal
xkcd.com/377/ – journal 2
xkcd.com/378/ – real programmers
xkcd.com/400/ – important life lesson
xkcd.com/405/ – journal 3
xkcd.com/407/ – cheap gps
xkcd.com/420/ – jealousy
xkcd.com/424/ – security holes
xkcd.com/429/ – fantasy
xkcd.com/432/ – journal 4
xkcd.com/433/ – journal 5
xkcd.com/439/ – thinking ahead
xkcd.com/451/ – impostor
xkcd.com/456/ – cautionary
xkcd.com/458/ – regrets
xkcd.com/460/ – paleontology
xkcd.com/461/ – google maps
xkcd.com/463/ – voting machines
xkcd.com/469/ – improvised
xkcd.com/483/ – fiction rule of thumb
xkcd.com/489/ – going west
xkcd.com/513/ – friends
xkcd.com/518/ – flow charts
xkcd.com/528/ – windows 7
xkcd.com/558/ – 1000 times
xkcd.com/559/ – no pun intended
xkcd.com/568/ – well 2
xkcd.com/570/ – new car
xkcd.com/584/ – unsatisfied
xkcd.com/588/ – pep rally
xkcd.com/590/ – papyrus

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The ultimate guide to xkcd, part 1

Posted on April 18, 2010 by blogmywiki

Life is short, xkcd is long – over 700 strips and counting. What to do?

Fear not – I’ve picked the best ones for you, starting with numbers 1 to 301… the ones that made me laugh out loud and the ones that made me cry. Actually they pretty much all made me laugh out loud, aside from the barrel ones.

The Barrel Strips – remind me of Peter Blegvad’s Leviathan.
xkcd.com/1/
xkcd.com/11/
xkcd.com/22/
xkcd.com/25/
xkcd.com/31/

The Other Strips
xkcd.com/23/ – t-shirts
xkcd.com/33/ – self-reference
xkcd.com/42/ – car insurance
xkcd.com/44/ – love
xkcd.com/45/ – shrodinger’s comic
xkcd.com/46/ – secrets
xkcd.com/56/ – the cure
xkcd.com/57/ – wait for me
xkcd.com/58/ – why do you love me?
xkcd.com/59/ – graduation
xkcd.com/66/ – abusive astronomy
xkcd.com/74/ – su doku
xkcd.com/75/ – curse levels
xkcd.com/77/ – bored with the internet
xkcd.com/79/ – iambic pentameter
xkcd.com/90/ – jacket
xkcd.com/92/ – sunrise
xkcd.com/93/ – jeremy irons
xkcd.com/107/ – snakes on a plane 2
xkcd.com/109/ – spoiler alert!
xkcd.com/114/ – computational linguistics
xkcd.com/120/ – dating service
xkcd.com/122/ – quirky girls
xkcd.com/128/ – dPain over dT
xkcd.com/149/ – Linux sandwich
xkcd.com/150/ – grownups – where it all started when I spotted this strip stuck to a fridge in someone’s Flickr photostream
xkcd.com/175/ – automatic doors
xkcd.com/193/ – perfect sound
xkcd.com/197/ – ninja turtles
xkcd.com/219/ – blanket fort
xkcd.com/231/ – cat proximity
xkcd.com/251/ – cd tray fight
xkcd.com/262/ – cat captions
xkcd.com/270/ – t h white’s merlin
xkcd.com/273/ – the electromagnetic spectrum
xkcd.com/275/ – meet the parents
xkcd.com/283/ – movie pet peeve
xkcd.com/300/ – mildly sleazy uses of Facebook pt14

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