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Here's a few things to occupy yourselves while I dry myself off from the torrential fucking downpour that decided to piss all over me for the last 8 hours.

• Iowahawk continues his tutorial on good blogging.  He says that sexiness helps attract readers, so you can all imagine me tossing back my hair and caressing my hard nipples while you read.

Or not.  I'll leave it entirely up to you.

• On a similar note, Chiefly Musing submits his thoughts (h/t Bill)
• Dean reports that Rosa Parks has died.  To be honest, I assumed she'd died long ago.  She wasn't the kind of 'famous' that gets you invited onto talk shows and in the pages of my daily paper, so she was never really on my radar.  Still, she did good.
• Bill Quick complains that the US congress are so afraid of confrontation that they were beaten down by George Galloway.  If anyone is interested in retaining my services I'll be down in Galloway's constituency next weekend, and I'd quite happily take a bat to his knees.  The smug, traitorous bastard. 
• Ace reports that the Turks are fining people for using the letters 'W' and 'Q'.  I propose we retaliate by outlawing the letters 'U', 'R' and 'K', and then force the Turks to rearrange the name of their country.

Because then Turkish would mean 'Shit'.  Shit.  Get it? 

Fuck it.  Maybe it was a little too subtle.  It'll kill at the Armenian community centre.

This ill-advised paragraph was brought to you by the letter alif.

• It's that time of year again.  The 2005 Weblog Awards are on the way.  As always I'll be whoring my endorsements to the highest bidder, interspersed with whiny posts about how I never get nominated for anything.  Eventually there'll be an award for 'Best Sporadically Updated British Blog Heavy on Crap and Light on Content'.  It will be mine.  Oh yes... it will be mine.

• The Colossus is running a series of competitions in which they post pictures taken from Google Earth and let oyou guess what they are.  I'll put them on notice that the idea will be stolen by me in the very near future...

• Something the Llamabutchers have already done.

• Basil reports that people alive today may be able to live for thousands of years.  Great.  Now cure taxes, smartass.
• Frank J wants to punch a few people.  Who am I to stop him?
• John Hawkins responds to the BBC by polling right-of-centre bloggers on who should lead a fantasy world government.  Apart from the fact that Margaret fucking Thatcher is in joint 2nd it's a pretty solid list - though I am a little concerned that I don't even rate a sub-cabinet position (h/t James Joyner)
• This is the best advert I've seen in years.  So good, in fact, that I'll mention it twice.
• This is the best ad I've seen in years.  Fuck it, it deserves three mentions.
• THIS IS THE BEST AD I'VE SEEN IN FREAKIN' YEARS.  AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.  Plus, I have an almost sexual relationship with Carlton beer.  This truly is a golden age of advertising.  Carlton...  Made from Beer.

Comments

[TJ]

Good list!

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/TJ
Today's NIF @ http://trejrc0.blogspot.com/2005/10/gonna-be-long-day.html