I particularly like the description of the game Snapdragons (at the bottom of the page), which seems to involve a large risk of getting burnt!

If you want to drive the Smoking Police absolutely nuts, try walking around a shopping mall with an unlit cigarette in your mouth or hand. A friend had a posse of at least three security staff tailing him continuously until he left the mall.

Whilst I can’t condone smoking, I do enjoy the idea of annoying the authorities.

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

Just don’t look under the hood – there’s a big, hairy, scary Unix system driving it all. With just a small effort you can get a bash shell. Phew

Matthew asked readers to nominate a random number from 1 to 100, and is now using those selections to follow the ideas in No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. I suggested number 36, and here’s Matthew’s resulting post: Red Suspenders.

Humour and link love, it doesn’t get any better than this

“A restaurant with a smoking section is like a swimming pool with a peeing section.”

“Doors closing. Lift going up. Doors opening. Sixth Floor. Doors closing”. And so on, ad nauseum.

It seems to me there is an excellent opportunity for a forward-thinking lift company to hire the woman who sang the theme tune to ‘Are You Being Served?’ to record the announcements.

Think how much that would brighten your day

“Going up…”

Avoid painful carpentry injuries by getting someone else to hold the
nails while you bang them in.