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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #17853 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sun, 05 July 2009 04:50

NotLonely
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The Annals of Improbable Research, and the Ig Nobel Awards.

www.improbable.com

I may just have been put off Coke for life. Which is not a bad thing, but *eish*

Life always, always finds a way.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18045 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sun, 12 July 2009 20:02

Laura
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I ran a search just in case this had already been posted, but has everyone seen this?
Blast! It's "Kittens Inspired by Kittens" on youtube and I can't get the link to post!
Kittens Inspired by Kittens
Edited to add: I figured it out!!!

[Updated on: Mon, 13 July 2009 19:38]

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18073 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Mon, 13 July 2009 23:36

Julia
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http://tineye.com/

reverse image searching!
I've been thinking that this is exactly what would be perfect on several hundred occasions when I want to find an image.
But I didn't think it was possible.
Guess I was wrong.
Oh good.

Quote:

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18105 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Tue, 14 July 2009 10:56

AJLR
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Well, the links below aren't exactly for amusement, but I hope I'm not threadjacking by posting them here. Smile

PortableApps - lots of lovely programs that will run from a usb memory stick. Is anyone else a fan of these? I find many of them really useful.

And related to that:

AccessApps: all sorts of accessibility support programs for use with IT/e-Learning. It's rather a big download, but lots of great stuff on there.

What did we all do before memory sticks! Smile

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18666 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Mon, 27 July 2009 06:48

Guest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qHVVbYG8Y&eurl=http%3A% 2F%2Fcuteoverload.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

A new Simon's Cat clip!

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18682 is a reply to message #18666 ]

Mon, 27 July 2009 11:36

AJLR
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Lovely! Thank you. Smile

We have been through fairly similar episodes with Tabbs, although luckily we're easier to wake up (before too much damage occurs...).

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #18870 is a reply to message #18666 ]

Fri, 31 July 2009 16:43

Erika in Colorado
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I loved it, especially after he got it and wanted it to play more! My cats are just like that with our evil plague of miller moths here; they were especially abundant at the beginning of this summer. Sad

Erika in Colorado

"A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!" -Anne Frank

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #19187 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Fri, 07 August 2009 05:17

L.R.K.
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Clever rooks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8181233.stm?ls

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23429 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 19 November 2009 10:54

Beauty/Anna
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Thats hilarious, I didn't know that crows could be faintly clever.

"You are your best resource for success"

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23430 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 19 November 2009 11:01

Beauty/Anna
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Since this is for links, well I have a question that I think a link could partly answer.
First have any of you read any of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer? If so, well have any of you listened to it on cd or tape? It is narrated by Nathaniel Parker, and he said that he narrated the last book but it is most certainly not available in America, so anybody know where I could get it or is it really unavailable?

[Updated on: Thu, 19 November 2009 11:02]

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23432 is a reply to message #23430 ]

Thu, 19 November 2009 11:35

ravenclawgirl
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Are you talking about book 6 or 7? Because the book 6 audiobook is in my library, so it must be available somewhere. But book 7 isn't due out till next summer, according to amazon. Though, amazon has been known to lie...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_20?url=search-alias%3Dap s&field-keywords=artemis+fowl+the+atlantis+complex&s prefix=artemis+fowl+the+atl

[Updated on: Thu, 19 November 2009 11:38]

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23433 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 19 November 2009 12:15

Beauty/Anna
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I was talking about the sixth book. The audiobook of the sixth book it read by Nathaniel Parker?

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23434 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 19 November 2009 12:19

Beauty/Anna
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Here is a hilarious video of welsh corgi's "singing" happy birthday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJQM5xBaRXI&feature=relat ed

[Updated on: Thu, 19 November 2009 12:20]

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23808 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sun, 29 November 2009 11:50

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Watched this and thought what a nice person the 'Simon's Cat' creator seems to be. Can't you just imagine, though, what the response would be if the hellhounds treated one of Robin's proof sets as the second little cartoon here shows..! Smile

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23820 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sun, 29 November 2009 17:52

Guest

For all Simons Cat fans there is a BOOK now - its a cartoon book of Simons Cat and its Brilliant Smile

I reserved at the library and will be buying a copy in the Xmas sales.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23873 is a reply to message #23808 ]

Tue, 01 December 2009 07:46

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Thanks AJLR--I am a big fan of Simon Tofield but would never have come across that link on my own!

(And is it just me, or does the vapidity of the average morning-show host/hostess transcend geography and culture?)

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23875 is a reply to message #23873 ]

Tue, 01 December 2009 08:06

AJLR
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Black Bear wrote on Tue, 01 December 2009 12:46

(And is it just me, or does the vapidity of the average morning-show host/hostess transcend geography and culture?)

*nods in emphatic agreement* I stick firmly to the BBC Radio 4 in the morning. I tried watching breakfast TV a couple of times, was infected with whatever the virus is, via the screen, and subsequently went through each day smiling vacuously at people and making inane comments. *shudder*

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23896 is a reply to message #23808 ]

Tue, 01 December 2009 20:33

Beauty/Anna
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AJLR wrote on Sun, 29 November 2009 11:50

He, he, he.—'bout Robin and hellhound bit.

Really funny animation, made me think of my Aunts cat.

[Updated on: Tue, 01 December 2009 20:43]

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #23957 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sat, 05 December 2009 14:26

Beauty/Anna
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Here is a really funny link—you have to go half-way through the video before you get to the hilarious bit.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #24179 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sat, 12 December 2009 09:31

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Someone on my Twitter stream reTweeted this hysterical link. It's an Amazon reviewer whose reviews are somewhat unconventional Very Happy

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #24180 is a reply to message #24179 ]

Sat, 12 December 2009 09:47

AJLR
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Wonderful! Whoever he/she is, they're obviously having a lot of fun. Smile

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #24213 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sun, 13 December 2009 14:36

Beauty/Anna
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That was great Smile

"You are your best resource for success"

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #25014 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Tue, 05 January 2010 21:08

skating librarian
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All the skating posts led me to suggest this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H03ky8Wy90&feature=chann el

This video was made before the snow.

"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #27348 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Fri, 12 March 2010 11:14

AJLR
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Anyone for chocolate building blocks, or a coffee-powered car?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8564640.stm

Nice to see so many school children involved in a science event.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #27349 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Fri, 12 March 2010 15:39

Polipetl
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I know that there are a few of you that also dabble in dog showing

there is live streaming from the main area at the NEC for Crufts at http://www.dfscrufts.tv/

Tomorrow is Toy and Utility day, Sunday is Gundogs and best in show. The main arena also has other events throughout the day.

live streaming starts at about 8.30 am and goes on throughout the day, ending with full group judging from around 6.30 pm

K
(who hasn't honestly had it running on the pc all day)

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #27714 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sat, 27 March 2010 02:46

L.R.K.
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The Diagram Prize, given to oddly titled books, has been announced:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8589455.stm

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #27946 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 01 April 2010 06:28

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On such an auspicious day, I thought this piece of noteworthy news deserved wider publicity:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hadron-collider-ii -planned-for-circle-line-1932744.html
Razz

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #28920 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:43

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Recipes that are, and should not have been:

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

Dawn in TN

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #29732 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Mon, 24 May 2010 20:33

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Sorry if this is already in here somewhere... but I got totally lost in this yesterday. I sat down to do some homework, and somehow I lost 4 hours looking at birds and listening to the songs they sing.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=1189

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #31018 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Thu, 01 July 2010 11:22

Laura
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Scottish actor Brian Cox teaches Hamlet's "to be or not to be..." soliloquy to a toddler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loDMRzPiCic

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #31099 is a reply to message #31018 ]

Mon, 05 July 2010 17:20

Beauty/Anna
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That's great Smile

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #31171 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Wed, 07 July 2010 17:51

L.R.K.
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So, I posted this link on What are you watching, but then it occured to me that it might perhaps amuse as well - Paul, the football (soccer) predicting psychic octopus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10521867.stm

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #31780 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Sat, 24 July 2010 06:17

L.R.K.
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The Paul the psychic octopus song - if this doesn't make you smile...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2TphG9XU0

Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #31941 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Mon, 26 July 2010 21:31

Angelia
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I'm not sure if this is amusing or diverting, but a great used-book site. Free shipping in the US-$3.95 worldwide: <www.Betterworldbooks.com>. Plus, you are funding literacy causes around the world.

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #32954 is a reply to message #5895 ]

Wed, 18 August 2010 23:27

Guest

NEW SIMONS CAT!!!!

Simon's Cat in a Box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvNqe8cKU4

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Re: Links to Amuse and Divert [message #33068 is a reply to message #32954 ]

Fri, 20 August 2010 17:26

AJLR
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It's lovely, isn't it. Smile

I hadn't seen another one on his site before, either, where the cat is playing in the snow.

Whoever does the sound effects is a genius, as well. Smile

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