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“If the government truly wanted to ‘defend my marriage’ it would
hire us a maid and a cook and prevent another massively
multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from ever working
on my husband’s computer.”

– Kelly Henley, in a letter to the editor of _Salon_.

[http://www.salon.com/opinion/letters/2003/11/22/dean_marriage_horowitz/index.html]

Tom Baker of Doctor Who fame is still getting roles – most recently, doing a voiceover in a movie called “The Magic Roundabout”. From a Doctor Who news blog comes this quote from a newspaper article:

Baker waxes on the role: “I mostly earn my living on my voice now, because I haven’t got the force in my legs to run anymore, even when I’m being pursued in Waitrose where I am a sex symbol for lecherous old upper class ladies of about 85.”

Somebody please find out if this quote is inauthentic. I don’t want to have to believe that such textbooks exist:

“If you are given the length of two sides and the angle measure
opposite one of those sides, you can use the law of sines to
solve the triangle. However, this does not always determine a
unique triangle. As a result, it is called the ambiguous case.
Ambiguous means open to multiple interpretations. Some people
say that you can interpret the Bible in any way that you want.
However, there is no ambiguity in the Bible.”

– From Precalculus for Christian Schools, a textbook published
by Bob Jones University.

This is a comment from a kuro5hin.org article about LASIK surgery:

I had LASIK done over a year ago, and the results have been great. Better than 20/20 with no side effects.

I was a tad nervous going in to the laser room. When they sat me down, I could see that the laser’s guidance system was running on windowsNT, then I started to wonder. I asked one of the techs, “you guys expect me to put my vision in the hands of the NT kernel?”

Needless to say, the techs were kind of annoyed with me questioning the software controls for the laser. When everything was finished, and I was stumbling out the room, one of the techs jokingly said, “Not bad for windows, kid!”

Got a spam email recently with the following subject:

  Message subject

And the following message body:

   %CHILL
   %DICK

   %CONTACT http://%URL/d/1.php

   %BYE
   %ASSHOLE w

Looks like those are meant to be substitutions done by the spammer’s scripting. It seems to reveal a little bit about what the scripter thinks of his target audience!

From the PostSecret project, where folks anonymously snail mail handwritten secrets via postcards to a blogger site:

There are many more interesting bits here:

PostSecret

From BBC NEWS | Health | Fidget off the fat, research says:

Best line: “They used technology embedded in pants to log even the smallest movements of 10 obese and 10 lean volunteers.”

A blog! A drop in the infinite ocean! But I repeat myself.

 "The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an
 affront to Christians everywhere.  I am just thankful that the
 church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon,
 his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane Seymour, his wife Anne of
 Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr
 are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional
 Christian marriage."

 - From an editorial in the Los Angeles Times (August 16, 2003),
   in response to the Episcopal Church's making Gene Robinson of
   New Hampshire its first (openly) gay bishop.  Quoted in The
   Christian Century on September 20, 2003.