Yummy Wakame

What sounds like this, is the size of a muffin and lives by the side of the sea?

Live Streaming Cam!!
Above and below the water. So cute!

“In fact at the World of Birds we probably have the highest number of gay couples in the workplace.”
(found by ken)

Hurray, I’m an official Yummie blogger!!!
I hope to find more tasty tidbits to share in the future, for now I submit a fascinating little book site I happened upon…
Book Whores, Sepulchritude’s Cruel & Unusual books, with catagories like Absynthe & Opium, Bodice Rippers & Victorian Smut there’s sure to be some fun reading to be had! Why, their main site Sepulchritude even has it’s own Chapel Perilous, not to be confused with our very own Chapel Perilous of course!

SA gets broadband wireless access
A new fixed cost wireless broadband internet service will be launched on January next year. In just six weeks, South African internet users will be able to connect at high speed to the internet without a physical telephone line connection.

MyWireless pricing is good news for consumers — at an all inclusive R649 a month for the 128Kbps service, R849 per month for the 256Kbps, and the 512 product will cost R1449 per month, apparently making this is the most cost effective Internet connection on offer. A once-off activation fee of R500 is payable when purchasing any of the products.

The new services will commence in Gauteng, followed by Durban and Cape Town.

INBOX:
Did you know that next year is a leap year?
Therefore we work 1 more day!

Did you know that Worker’s Day (1 May) falls on a Saturday?
Means we work 1 more day!

Did you know that Christmas (25 and 26 December) fall on Saturday and Sunday?
We work 2 more days!

Did you know that New Year’s Day and ‘tweede Nuwe jaar’ ( 1 and 2 January) fall on Saturday and Sunday?
Work 2 more days!

Therefore, we work an extra 6 days next year.

Blogger has posted advice on “How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog” after an unfortunate weblogger lost his job at Microsoft.

Prank call cringe – vibrator recall (740k mp3)

Birthday Boy Bsti made a really interesting post today I had to share:

Are we hardwired to believe in God?
“Every known culture from the dawn of our species has maintained a belief in some form of a “spiritual” reality. Wouldn’t this suggest that human spirituality must represent an inherent characteristic of our species, that is, a genetically inherited trait? Furthermore, being that spirituality, just like language, represents a cognitive function, wouldn’t this suggest that our “spiritual” instincts, just like our linguistic ones, must be generated from some very specific physical part within the brain?”

bsti: Yeah. I call it a mindvirus.
All humans suffer from certain ailments of the brain which are thus far incurable~emotion and spirituality. These ailments arose from the evolutionary requirement of procreation, of course. We don’t usually suffer from these ailments. except when they conflict with other humans and their afflictions.

We’ve all experienced a broken heart or a pushy witness or watched the faithful massacre each other for believing in a different fantasy or got beaten up by overzealous BAC’s while in the audience at a seminar about the influence of Satan on rock and roll…..

“Most controversial of all, if what I’m suggesting is true, it would imply that God is not necessarily something that exists ‘out there,’ beyond and independent of us, but rather as the product of an inherited perception, the manifestation of an evolutionary adaptation that exists within the human brain.”

bsti: Controversial? That concept predates 99.9% of today’s organized religions. I’m not sure why this fella thinks it’s such a new idea. Funny how humans think their generation is the most important, the most advanced. and comes up with the newest, most shiny ideas.

Truth is, everything that you can think of now as regards spirituality has already been thought of before. It’s good to remember them, but I always felt such knowledge should be given freely.

see with sound – Video sonification software for Microsoft Windows

The vOICe Learning Edition translates arbitrary video images from a regular PC camera into sounds. This means that you can see with your ears, whenever you want to. Now step beyond your computer screen and screen reader and try this camera-based “scene reader”. With a notebook PC you can even go mobile. How well you can learn to see with your ears is something that only you can find out, but now you can indeed find out and learn through this Learning Edition software, for free!

(my brother kenneth’s first yummy submission)

Kurt Wenner – Master Street Painter
This is the best street art Ive ever seen. Not only is it extremely realistic, its 3D! This one’s my favourite. Youve got to see his whole gallery of work.
(nicked off geisha asobi)

Smittens
Girls, you just can’t do this to a guy! Unless he is 3 years old! And youre his mother!
(thanks tOoHeYwOrLd)

Oom pah oom pah ping ping pong
“This is a truly amazing music video of Mo Kin, a cute , three-year-old North Korean girl performing a very complicated and interesting song on the xylophone.”
(seen on yipyop)

Extract from President Bush’s exclusive interview with Fox News’ Brit Hume, 22 September

HUME: How do you get your news?

BUSH: I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. In all due respect, you’ve got a beautiful face and everything.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news. And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.

One of my favourite films of all time: Naked Lunch. Warning – your imagination may offend you. Have you seen it?

Dont know if you ever noticed, but a brief synopsis for this film can bizarrely be found in Bomb The Bass “Bug Powder Dust“.

Wow – you can now buy La Femme Nikita Series 1 on DVD! Ive waited years for this good news.

Also check out Sounds of La Femme Nikita – it has listed all the music used in every eposide in every series of LFN. What a gem! Time to start collecting. Some of the tracks can be found on the only available LFN Soundtrack CD which we already have.

Brighton viewers can now watch Channel 5 without the help of satellite or cable! That means we can finally see the La Femme Nikita series on Tuesdays at 23:50!!!! Im so excited!

Channel 5 is Britain’s last analogue, terrestrial network and has been on air since Easter 1997. It’s available to nearly 80% of the population. And it was the first terrestrial station also available on satellite.

This is spectacular!

Powers of Ten
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

(thanks graham!)

would this be the wrong time to ask for seconds????

Id love this as my desktop wallpaper. I really wish there was a wallpaper section on the site.

A bad case of “DVD rot“ is likely to eat through your DVD collection.

(found on what is this “blog” thing anyway?)

The Well Project
The first of its kind: The Well Project is an online “community for women with HIV and the people who care for them.” It offers “the latest information on living with and managing HIV disease for HIV positive women, healthcare providers, and advocates.”

found on ERICHIAN

Moofeus: “Have you heard of THE MEATRIX? Do you want to know what it is?
The MEATRIX is all around you.”

Brilliant!!!

We never seem to learn, do we?

“Speaking of learning, tomorrow is Remembrance Day here. A day where we remember those who died for our freedom. While I am saddened that people did lose their lives during the wars, weren’t these days also to remind us why war is bad? So that it would never happen again? It appears not because war continues to this day.

So, tomorrow, I will remember the veterans but I will also mourn that we have learned nothing from it.

What about freedom? Do we really have it? That is truly debatable.”
~ lola

News of the Weird
In Easton, Pa., in July, Robert Peters Sr., 47, became the latest man to be acquitted of indecent exposure by convincing a jury that his penis is too small to have been seen by the complaining witness. A woman testified that she had seen “3 inches” of erect penis beyond the bottom of his shorts while he was working in her home, but via photographs and a brief trouser-dropping in the courtroom, Peters convinced the jury that he is very modestly endowed and that she must have seen something else.

Reviving an extinct tiger
More than 60 years after its extinction, the museum launched a project to clone the Tasmanian tiger, more correctly known as the thylacine, a lost icon of Australia’s island state. This pup’s DNA was the starting point, due to its remarkable state of preservation.

From its vault in Sydney’s Australian Museum, a pickled Tasmanian tiger pup has brought the prospect of reviving an extinct species to the verge of reality, bringing mixed reactions of wonder and terror.
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