I’ve just had an epiphany, so may I correct myself: Flocke doesn’t look like a sheep, she looks like Flat Eric!

There nothing like deadline pressure to make you discover a gazilion new ways of killing time. I have another batch of assignments to grade, which inevitably makes me stumble upon all the useless, but cute shit on the net. Try Ferry Halim’s Orisinal Games, for instance. Most of them are very simple, which makes them probably even more addictive. Gotta get back to work now.

EDIT: this is is a VERY old post which i never posted – probably 10 months or more.

I found these in my mailbox today – I know they’re rabbits, but I don’t think I’d want one of these. Not even eat them.

Just a quickie today. Do you know a tosser from a jumper? If not, play the “Smashing Slang” flash game on the PBS website. The game is based on slang expressions used in the TV series “White Teeth” (based on the novel by Zadie Smith).

“Even if you’re wrong, you’ll add a colourful phrase to your vocabulary”. That’s what the makers of the game promise. Just don’t use these terms in your essays, thank you

There’s more info about the novel and the series
on the PBS website.

An agency in Paris has created Bombay TV, a flash application that allows you to subtitle a few seconds from a Bollywood movie. I picked one with Amitabh Bachchan, my favourite actor.

Too bad WordPress supresses the embed object function, otherwise you could have previewed my movie here. Click on the link to see my movie. You can create your own on the same site, too.

While streamlining an article that is due today (statistically speaking I have written one article for each decade that I’ve lived: three so far), I’m trying not to avert my attention from the screen, but unfortunately the screen has got several screens in itself that bear potential for distraction, and the computer’s connected to the internet. As a result, diversion and procastination is becoming rife.

Even the spam that keeps coming in distracts me.

I’ve often marvelled at the excentric artistic quality of some spam. If this one, for instance, had been created by an artist, it would probably have been praised for its attempt to capture the aesthetics of 256-bit graphics.

Furthermore, it breaks all the rules of succesful email marketing: unpersonalized, untargetted content, no context, opaque subject line (bamboo stress), and it does not even contain a link!

And right below the image it features a text that appears to be completely unconnected:

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How long does the battery last?
Via RFID initiatives, managers will be able to monitor and review store performance and tackle problem areas.
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God bless the spam artists