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Taiwan bride is a real doll

posted by sbp at 2001-12-21 23:12 (permalink)

sbp: """Chang Hsi-hsum, 46, married the 28cm (11 inch) plastic doll during an elaborate ceremony at his local Buddhist temple."""
sbp: also: "If Humpty Dumpty married Englebert Humperdink, he would be Humpty Humperdink" - http://www.geocities.com/paris/1871/marriage.html

Make-A-Shorter-Link

posted by sbp at 2001-12-21 23:10 (permalink)

sbp: By the PANTS collective, which I tend to equate with Edd
sbp: """This web site provides a simple service - when you find a page on the web whose address is too long to paste into an email or other document, you can use our free service to generate a shorter, simpler address.""" - http://makeashorterlink.com/about.php
sbp: i.e., a PURL-a-like, except that: """How long are the shorter links going to last? [...] We hesitate to say "forever", because that's a very long time indeed. But the links will remain usable for a long time.""" - ibid.
sbp: "The code was written by Matthew Hunt"

tengwar editor

posted by rillian at 2001-12-21 22:56 (permalink)

sbp: now with esperanto modes!
sbp: Good stuff - has a Quenya mode
sbp: (of course, but you know what I mean)

http://www.goose-works.org/

posted by hazmat at 2001-12-21 20:12 (permalink)

hazmat: topic map engine with python api

Why grammar is the first casualty of war

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-21 16:17 (permalink)

AaronSw: By Terry Jones
AaronSw: "This is an edited version of an essay by Terry Jones, extracted from Voices for Peace: an Anthology (Scribner, £7.99) published in aid of Warchild."

Lessons Jake Learned from School

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-21 16:01 (permalink)

kumo : web programming every day

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-21 04:53 (permalink)

AaronSw: A weblog from a guy interested in RDF, Python, the Web, etc.
AaronSw: Sounds like the right kind of candidate for swhack! :-)

Swhack Weblog Archives for 2001

posted by AaronSw at 2001-12-21 00:45 (permalink)

AaronSw: As another year draws to a close, it's time to look back on the archives that made this such a special year for our Swhack Weblog.
sbp: Other than the fact that it's our only year so far?

Permanent Collection of the Gallery of ''Misused'' Quotation Marks

posted by sbp at 2001-12-21 00:44 (permalink)

sbp: Very "funny"

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