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Box Up

Box Up



This is a puzzle similar to traditional Sokoban.
But here all the boxes are hollow and open on one side.
They can only be moved by pushing from the inside.
There are two sizes of boxes, small and large.
The aim is always to push the small red box inside the blue box.
Black boxes may help or hinder your progress.
A small box inside a large box can be pushed together.

And it's very addictive.

Pr0n

Remote Control Boredom

Why do you keep calling me "Bitch"?

Do You Have a Flag?

Phil does...

Phil's Drunk Again

Balls

Drunken Trio

Introducing:

Max


Phil


Adam


Otherwise known as "The Drunken Trio"

The Truth About User Photos

Gym

Where is this gym? Huh? HUH?

Mammatus Clouds

Spectacular Mammatus Clouds over Hastings, Nebraska

CNN Breaking News

Some items of note from yesterday:

-- U.S. Supreme Court rules Ten Commandments displays are not allowed at courthouses.

-- Following ruling barring Ten Commandments displays in courthouses, Supreme Court rules such displays are allowed at state capitols.

The US Supreme Court hands film and music companies a major victory in ruling that file-sharing networks are liable for piracy by users. (BBC News)

US House passes flag-burning ban
The US House of Representatives has approved a constitutional amendment allowing lawmakers to ban flag burning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4122814.stm

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 27, 2005
Cleveland 7, Boston 0 at Fenway Park

Winning pitcher - Kevin Millwood (3-5)
Losing pitcher - Bronson Arroyo (6-4)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cleveland	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	0	0		7	8	0
Boston	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	3	2

HR: CLE: T. Hafner (12) G. Sizemore (8) BOS:
Boston Record: (44-31)

Next Game: Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET vs. Indians

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Indians, Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 29, 2005 01:05 PM ET
vs. Blue Jays, Jul 01, 2005 07:05 PM ET

Now where am I going to get my porn from?

BREAKING NEWS

The US Supreme Court hands film and music companies a major victory in ruling that file-sharing networks are liable for piracy by users.

Assholes!

BBC News Daily Update

BBC NEWS

TOP STORIES

Iraq rebellion 'could last years'
The insurgency in Iraq could continue for over a decade, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4625215.stm

Tributes paid to TV host Whiteley
Tributes flood in for television presenter Richard Whiteley, who died just days after undergoing heart surgery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4625347.stm

Israel to rule on Hurndall death
A military court in Israel is due to decide if a soldier is guilty of the manslaughter of British student Tom Hurndall in 2003.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4625355.stm

ID cards set for Commons grilling
The government's Identity Cards Bill faces fresh criticism the day before its second Commons reading.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/uk_politics/4625407.stm

Glastonbury fans begin trek home
Dance act Basement Jaxx bring the
curtain down on a memorable Glastonbury Festival.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/entertainment/music/4625049.stm

Countdown

Richard Whiteley, the presenter of Channel 4's Countdown, has died aged 61, co-host Carol Vorderman's agent, John Miles, says.

More details

Word Of The Day

Word of the Day for Monday June 27, 2005

callow \KAL-oh\, adjective:

Immature; lacking adult perception, experience, or judgment.

Those who in later years did me harm I describe as I knew them then, and I beg any reader to remember that, although I was hardly callow, I was not yet wise in the ways of the world.
--Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost

George Black Jr was grateful that during his protracted courtship of Betty, his future father-in-law 'bore my callow unsophistication with benign indulgence'.
--Richard Siklos, Shades of Black

They watched in awe as Revere, at first a callow and unambitious youth, began to develop into a serious young man dedicated to books and devoted to his father.
--Sherwin B. Nuland, "The Saint," New Republic, December 13, 1999

Callow is from Old English calu, "featherless, bald."

Word Of The Day

Word of the Day for Sunday June 26, 2005

amative \AM-uh-tiv\, adjective:

Pertaining to or disposed to love, especially sexual love; full of love; amorous.

Theoretically, any given left-kisser should meet more right-kissers and, over an amative lifetime, or even good year in junior high, be subtly pressured to shift to the right in order to land a wet one -- or just avoid a broken nose. No?
--Donald G. McNeil, Jr., "Pucker Up, Sweetie, and Tilt Right," New York Times, February 13, 2003

In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of another nap even more often than it does to amative imaginings, Tennyson to the contrary notwithstanding.
--"Touch of Spring Fever Makes Whole World Kin," Science News, May 23, 1931

Well, poetry has been erotic, or amative, or something of that sort -- at least a vast deal of it has -- ever since it stopped being epic.
--Helen Deutsch, "Death, desire and translation: on the poetry of Propertius," TriQuarterly, March 22, 1993

Amative comes from Medieval Latin amativus, "capable of love," from the past participle of Latin amare, "to love."

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 26, 2005
Boston 12, Philadelphia 8 at Citizens Bank Park

Winning pitcher - Mike Timlin (2-1)
Losing pitcher - Rheal Cormier (2-2)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	1	0	1	5	1	0	0	4	0		12	15	1
Philadelphia	0	0	0	1	4	0	3	0	0		8	13	0

HR: BOS: M. Bellhorn (5) M. Ramirez (19) J. Varitek (13) PHI: B. Abreu (17) P. Burrell (16)
Boston Record: (44-30)

Next Game: Jun 27, 2005 07:05 PM ET vs. Indians

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Indians, Jun 27, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 29, 2005 01:05 PM ET

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 25, 2005
Boston 7, Philadelphia 1 at Citizens Bank Park

Winning pitcher - Matt Clement (9-1)
Losing pitcher - Vicente Padilla (3-7)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	1		7	12	0
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		1	8	1

HR: BOS: M. Ramirez (18) PHI:
Boston Record: (43-30)

Next Game: Jun 26, 2005 01:35 PM ET vs. Phillies

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Indians, Jun 27, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 29, 2005 01:05 PM ET

Deuce Bigalow Returns!

Deuce Bigalow - European Gigalo

Upcoming Filums

Dell's Keystroke Loggers

Looking at getting a new computer anytime soon? Don't get a Dell, they're coming factory loaded with keystroke loggers for the Dept of Homeland Security. Spooky.

Premiership Goals

A fantastic collection of English Premiership goals

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 22, 2005
Boston 5, Cleveland 4 at Jacobs Field

Winning pitcher - Keith Foulke (5-3)
Losing pitcher - Bob Wickman (0-2)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1		5	12	2
Cleveland	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0		4	11	1

HR: BOS: J. Olerud (1) E. Renteria (6) CLE:
Boston Record: (41-30)

Next Game: Jun 24, 2005 07:05 PM ET vs. Phillies

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Indians, Jun 27, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 29, 2005 01:05 PM ET

Family Guy Movie set for September DVD Release

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050620/tv_nm/familyguy_dc

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is preparing his long-awaited direct-to-DVD movie based on the exploits of his cartoon clan for a Sept. 27 release.

"It's been an enormous undertaking to juggle this with doing 35 new episodes of the show, but we think it turned out great," MacFarlane said of the film, his first full-length feature, and the first direct-to-video ever made off a television franchise.

Rock Paper Scissors

A flashy flash version.

What a pity it doesn't have the option of 'Fire' or 'Water Balloon'

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 21, 2005
Boston 9, Cleveland 2 at Jacobs Field

Winning pitcher - Bronson Arroyo (6-3)
Losing pitcher - Kevin Millwood (2-5)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	2		9	11	1
Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0		2	7	1

HR: BOS: D. Ortiz (18) M. Ramirez (16) CLE:
Boston Record: (40-30)

Next Game: Jun 22, 2005 07:05 PM ET vs. Indians

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Indians, Jun 27, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 28, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Indians, Jun 29, 2005 01:05 PM ET

R-Type type Game

Fantastic R-Type type flash game

Raiden

Really Annoying Game

Blue Print

KKK verdict sees 'justice arrive'

The families of three civil rights workers beaten and shot to death 41 years ago in Mississippi have welcomed the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen.

The 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan man was convicted by a jury in the town of Philadelphia of recruiting the killers.

Bennie Thompson, the state's only black congressman, said justice had "finally arrived in Philadelphia".

Rita Schwerner Bender, widow of victim Michael Schwerner, said the conviction was a "very important first step".

But she asked why the jury "could not bring themselves to acknowledge that these were murders, that they were committed with malice".

Michael Schwerner's widow added that the state of Mississippi was "complicit in these crimes and all the crimes that occurred" and called for a further inquiry.

Ben Chaney, brother of James Chaney, the only black man among the three victims, thanked prosecutors and said he sensed "hope".

District Attorney Mark Duncan said he still believed the prosecution had "proved murder".

Clearly referring to the Alan Parker 1988 film Mississippi Burning about the struggle to bring the killers to justice, he added: "We won't be painted or described or known throughout the world by a Hollywood movie any more."

The jury in Mississippi rejected the murder charges against Killen but did find him guilty of recruiting a mob to kill the three.

His wife, Betty Jo, went to her husband with tears in her eyes and hugged him.

As he was wheeled away, he struck out at two television microphones and a TV camera.

Killen now faces up to 20 years in jail for the role he played 41 years ago.

The defendant had denied taking any part in the killings of Mr Schwerner, 24, Mr Chaney, 21, and Andy Goodman, 20.

A Baptist preacher, he showed no emotion as the verdict was read in the courtroom.

He used a wheelchair in court and was connected to breathing apparatus during the trial.

The activists were two white men from New York and a local black colleague, who were killed while campaigning for the registration of black voters.

They were arrested for a dubious traffic violation, and attacked by a gang of Klansmen and police after being released in the middle of the night.

They were abducted as they drove out of the Mississippi town and shot dead.

Their bodies, riddled with bullets and badly beaten, were buried at a dam and only found 44 days later after an extensive search.

Killen, who was a suspect in the original investigation but never convicted, was re-arrested after new evidence emerged.

Red Sox Postgame Alert

Boston 10 Cleveland 9

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	0	0	0	3	6	0	0	0	1		10	13	1
Cleveland	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	3	1		9	15	1

Word Of The Day

antiquarian \an-tuh-KWAIR-ee-uhn\, noun:
One who collects, studies, or deals in objects or relics from the past.

adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to antiquarians or objects or relics from the past.
2. Dealing in or concerned with old or rare books.

From the depositions filed with the Loyalist Claims Commission after the Revolution, from a handful of letters gathered by an antiquarian at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from scattered court papers in scattered archives, it is possible to piece together some of the family's history.
--Linda K. Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies

Except to antiquarians and preservationists, silent cinema has little presence on the cultural radar screen, its landmark films unrented on video, its iconic images spotted only as fodder for video collage on MTV.
--Thomas Doherty, [2]Pre-Code Hollywood

Indeed, the evident attention to detail and studied historicism bore the impress of Truefitt's years with the antiquarian Cottingham.
--Francis R. Kowsky, Country, Park & City

A friend of mine, the manager of an antiquarian bookshop in Leningrad in the 1960s, told me that he remembered well the twice-monthly visits of a matronly lady from the censorship bureau, who spent hours rifling through the thousands of books on his shelves, checking them against her latest copy of the Summary List (which was always being updated).
--David King, The Commissar Vanishes

Antiquarian is from Latin antiquarius, "pertaining to antiquity," from antiquus, "ancient."

Red Sox Postgame Alert

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	0
Boston	0	3	0	0	0	2	2	0	X		7	10	0

Missing Dr Who Dalek found on Tor

A Dalek stolen from a Somerset tourist site has been found on Glastonbury Tor after thieves said it was "too hot".

The prop, which was at Wookey Hole Caves, near Wells, for a Doctor Who exhibition, was taken more than a week ago. A "ransom note" was then issued.



Cave owner Gerry Cottle made appeals for information. In the early hours of Tuesday, staff recieved a phone call telling them where the Dalek was.

Mr Cottle has denied that the theft of the Dalek was a publicity stunt.

Last Thursday, staff found a Dalek plunger arm and a ransom note on a doorstep.

The note read: "We are holding the Dalek captive. We demand further instructions from the Doctor."

But in Tuesday's phone call, the thieves said it had become "too hot to handle" and had been placed on Glastonbury Tor.

The Dalek had been on display at the Bath and West Show and was in temporary storage at the Wookey Hole site when it was taken.

Redsox Stats

East	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	EAST	CENT	WEST	NL	L10	STRK
Baltimore	25	13	.658	-	13-9	12-4	16-6	8-5	1-2	0-0	6-4	W3
Boston	23	16	.590	2.5	11-5	12-11	11-10	3-1	9-5	0-0	6-4	W1
Toronto	21	16	.538	4.5	8-9	13-9	12-10	5-5	4-3	0-0	5-5	W2
New York	21	19	.525	5.0	12-11	9-8	9-14	0-0	12-5	0-0	10-0	W10
Tampa Bay	14	26	.350	12.0	12-12	2-14	8-16	3-8	3-2	0-0	3-7	L3

Dr Stiff

Please, no, stop. A gynacologist called Dr Richard Stiff?

It's twue, it's twue!

http://www.drstiff.homestead.com/

Beer Addiction

Badass Break Dancing

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John Gibson is a Twunt

I'm back on the warpath again and I haven't even got a good excuse - yet.



But I will do soon.

My Company's Parking Policy

This is an email conversation between myself and out office manager type thingy person, who spends most of his day being a parking nazi, walking around the car park at work, noting down registration numbers of car "illegally" parked in our staff car-park.

Now our staff car-park is quite small. There are about 65 spaces for 280 employees. It must be noted, however, that a large number of people do not drive into work, they either walk, bus or catch the train, and a great deal of those who do drive in park outside the car park, on the residential sideroads.

On this particular day, there was at least 12 empty parking spaces in our car park. I hope you'll agree, hardly a parking crisis.

Now I understand I broke the "rules", but isn't this a little harsh?
The bits in brackets are my comments.

Your car is in the car park again, and again without authorization.

Please move it now.

If it is in here again without prior and prior authorization I will insist that your manager undertakes a disciplinary hearing in line with policy. (a direct threat)

DB

--

I will move it in ten minutes.

--

And please make sure it stays out.

DB

--

Moved.

Golly, whatever will you do when the new building has 280 parking spaces? :)

Oh come on, it’s a joke!

--

It may be a joke to you but to me it’s a complete waste of my time when you and countless others take it on themselves to ignore policy, and repeated requests and notices. (amplifying my offence by lumping it in with the offences of everbody else)

If the new building only has 280 spaces then that is still 60+ short of our current staff compliment and therefore people who abuse the parking policy will find themselves first to be refused parking rights. (a vieled threat)

In that event I hope you’ll continue to see the funny side.

DB

--

It really was just a joke.

--

And from the Cambridge Dictionary……

Definition

beyond a joke
If something is beyond a joke, it has stopped being amusing and is now a serious matter:
I used to think he was funny, but his behaviour has now gone way beyond a joke.

So forgive me if I fail to see any humour in this whatsoever.

Painful isn’t it ? (not really sure what he means by this, what is painful? receiving all the emails from him? listening to his drivel? seeing him putting forward a fatally flawed argument?)

DB

--

Ok, ok point taken. I was just trying to point out that I understand I had crossed the line, in a more friendly manner.

--

The way to do that is say ‘sorry, it won’t happen again’ and then ensure that it doesn’t.

Given that we’d previously been through the same rigmarole can you not understand my frustration and annoyance?

Good, now add to that the 20 or more people who also consider it a ‘joke’ and you can further appreciate why it just isn’t funny.

What would be funny is if I let down the car tyres of everybody who parked in here without authorization/according to policy, or clamped them, or stuck pasted notices on their windscreens or any combination of these.

(maybe you should - let out some of that latent aggression? it might save you the jail time when you finally do explode and march down Isleworth high street with a hunting rifle)

I more than anybody would very much like to have a car park that catered for every member of staff regardless of how big or small that number maybe- however, what I have to manage is 340+ into 65……..and that just simply doesn’t go and therefore something has to give and people have to accept that.

I will take your last response to be your assurance that you will now adhere to policy and in so doing will bring this debate to an end.

DB

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 7th, 2005

Boston 2, St. Louis 9 at Busch Stadium

Winning pitcher - Jeff Suppan (5-5)
Losing pitcher - Matt Clement (6-1)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		2	9	0
St Louis	2	4	1	0	0	0	2	0	X		9	9	0

HR: BOS: J. Varitek (11) STL: J. Edmonds (11) R. Sanders (12)

Boston Record: (31-27)

Next Game: Jun 08, 2005 07:10 PM ET vs. Cardinals

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Reds, Jun 13, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Reds, Jun 14, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Reds, Jun 15, 2005 07:05 PM ET

Amusing Names

Ivana Mandic

Not, but really, she is a US basketball player.

http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/nineronline.com/mandic/

Writer Bill Bryson Aids School Science

Author Bill Bryson is to send a free copy of his best-selling science book - A Short History of Nearly Everything - to every secondary school in Britain.

The government is backing the scheme, aimed at reversing the decline in interest in subjects like physics and chemistry among students.

Schools Minister Lord Adonis said it would "motivate and encourage".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4614825.stm

Lord Adonis? How cool is that name?

Word Of The Day

glutinous \GLOOT-nuhs\, adjective:
Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; sticky.

"What do you mean?" I said, my mouth glutinous with melted marshmallow and caramel.
--T. Coraghessan Boyle, T. C. Boyle Stories

At this point Leonardo wakes, decides the sensation is extraordinary but not death, and gazing up through the glutinous film of boiled carrot drippings, says: No, Salai
will be riding a horse.
--R. M. Berry, Leonardo's Horse

Besides, the sensation of glutinous raw egg-yolk sliding down my throat like a plump mollusc would not necessarily be helpful in my current state.
--Victoria Moore, "Dog daze - young alcoholics' way of life," New Statesman, January 1, 1999

Glutinous derives from Latin glutinosus, from gluten, glutin-, "glue."
Synonyms: adhesive, gluey, gummy, mucilaginous, viscous.

Red Sox Postgame Alert

June 6th, 2005

Boston 1, St. Louis 7 at Busch Stadium

Winning pitcher - Matt Morris (7-0)
Losing pitcher - Tim Wakefield (4-6)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Boston	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	4	1
St Louis	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	X		7	9	0

Boston Record: (31-26)

Next Game: Jun 07, 2005 08:10 PM ET vs. Cardinals

Upcoming Home Games:
vs. Reds, Jun 13, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Reds, Jun 14, 2005 07:05 PM ET
vs. Reds, Jun 15, 2005 07:05 PM ET

Word Of The Day

Word of the Day for Tuesday June 7, 2005

betimes \bih-TYMZ\, adverb:
1. Early; in good time; before it is late.
2. At times; on occasion.
3. [Archaic] Soon; in a short time.

But it takes a piece of political theatre, like yesterday's release of the Iraq dossier, to get us out of bed betimes.
--Andrew Marr, "I couldn't have a lie-in because of the Iraq dossier," Daily Telegraph, September 25, 2002

It looks like it's trying to clear this morning, though waves of drizzle betimes pass through.
--Will Cook, "Macklin's Cross," Irish America, February 1, 2004

Some of them were poets or novelists first and critics only betimes.
--Denis Donoghue, The Practice of Reading

Betimes is from Middle English bitimes, from bi, "by" + time, "time."

This is a friend of a friend of mine, Euguene Mirman, a stand-up comedian and a stand-up guy.

Check out the singing.

Issues man, issues

I am just really tired at the moment and whenever I see some light at the end of the tunnel, my worst fears are realized when, as the light gets closer, I see its some other fucker with a flashlight bringing more work and problems to me.