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Now why does this seem so relevant today ?

Muggy has this great shot on his Flickr site, and I just love it…

Completely and utterly confusing!!!

The Anagram London Underground Map re-labels all of London’s tube-stations with anagrams of their names.

Famous stations swap round as Goodge Street becomes ‘Edge Grottoes’, Old Street takes on the guise of ‘Eldest Rot’, Oxford Circus is renamed ‘Crux for Disco’ and Paddington becomes ‘Apt Nodding’.

Personally I also like ‘Bowel Mind’, ‘Flesh Studio’ and ‘Queasy Horn’…

Not forgetting the instantly unforgettable ‘Queerer Elastics’..

It certainly it puts a much better, and more enlightening view on those dull trips into London..

Or maybe I’m just so stressed today it appealed to my sense of humour this morning when I was sent the link?

Its happy holidays from the 30-Second Bunnies Theatre Library, in which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less. Presenting in Bun-O-Vision these collection of flash movies are quite amusing.

The Bunnies re-enact those all too long films, cutting them down to a nice, concise 30 or seconds of direct bunny acting.. Cutting out all the superfluous acting, plot lines, and getting to the basics.. Jaws is particularly funny..

Amongst the repertoire of Bunnies Theatre are such classics as;

‘Alien‘; It seems to have live.. its gone.. its dead.. its back..

‘The Big Chill‘; Everyone does everything to get laid..

‘The Exorcist‘; urrrrrgggghhhhh… nooo noo noo nah nee nah noo noo..

‘Freddy Vs Jason‘; scream.. dude that guy was pissed..

‘Highlander‘; there can be only one..

‘Titanic‘; This ship cant sink.. I assure you it can.. No it can’t.. Oh my god it sunk..

Well you get the idea, the full list of Bun-O-Vision movies is here..

I’m waiting for the abridged King Kong, and Harry Potters..

So there are some wonderfully involved flash games out on the web, as well as all the wonderful flash animations (like Magical Trevor).

A friend told about the wonderful Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? game the other night;

Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? Try to work out which of the following spent their time hacking computers, and which preferred hacking away at corpses instead..

All your classic slashers, and slashdotters are in there..

Bertrand Meyer – designer of the Eiffel system, David Berkowitz, who in his own words ‘didn’t want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them..’ and Randy Kraft, who actually was a computer programmer with a leaning to branching out into other past times..

I’m quite pleased I scored a respectable 8 out of 10, although I’m not entirely sure if that’s a good thing, knowing my serial killers and Programming language inventors!?

Probably not a fact to well advertise over my next evening out..

And on a lighter note… I thought this was just so amusing when a friend showed it to me the other night.

Magical Trevor is one of the many Flash cartoons on Weebl’s Stuff. She probably thought I’d like it because I was a magician.. However unlike Magical Trevor I’ve never magically vanished a cow with a magical leathery whip, or indeed ever attempted to be putridly sick by sawing a pigeon in half with a stick..

Its full of lots of very amusing flash animations on there.. I also love Clive The Frog..

All very surreal, but amusing! People have too much time on their hands… nice one weebl!!

Again this just appeals to my sense of humour and desire to be slightly quirky in nature.. After my own reshelving activities with Jims Teach yourself Sudoku book, I found an interesting post on Boing, Boing this morning..

Ministry of Reshelving

Here are the rules from the “Ministry of Reshelving” about moving the book “1984″ (George Orwell’s description of a totalitarian society in which the government, referred to as the Party, had almost complete control over the people) to more “suitable” shelves..

1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.

2. Download and print “This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving” bookmarks and “All copies of 1984 have been relocated” notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store.

7. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving@avantgame.com. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as “reshelving”, and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.

Since the Ministry advises any additional reshelving should also be carried out where required, I think we should also move Teach yourself Sudoku to Computers & Internet, Best Sellers, and just to confuse.. Mind Body and Spirit..

So as Jims Teach Yourself Sudoku book is now out, we have to do a little bit here and there to help it on its way in the big wide world..

Waterstones in Reading only had a single pile of them this morning, probably about 20 copies in total, I felt the urge to move them around a bit.. I wasn’t sure if putting one copy on top of each of the other copies was the done thing, but I thought it looked quite cool.. The front of the shop display looked like there were about 20 piles of the book..

To confuse even more I brought two copies, and left one in the ‘Best Sellers’ section in WHSmiths.. that will really confuse them at the checkout! Couldn’t get a photo though as the security guard was looking at me a bit odd..

So remember if you see the book Teach Yourself Sudoku.. move it to a good place in the shop.. somewhere round the best sellers… or better still buy a copy..

Nice one Jim…

I was reading today an interesting article on about the book ‘Moondust: in search of the men who fell to earth‘.

The bit that made me smile was on the pay that the astronauts received..

They got their normal pay, which was $17,000 a year, plus the $8 a day for being away from base, minus any deductions for accomodation.

On his return Buzz Aldrin tried to present NASA with an invoice for travel expenses (880,000 miles at eight cents a mile), NASA presented him an invoice back for one saturn V rocket, ready for travel, costing $185 million..

So This is pretty cool for all those geek heads out there..

Taking a picture of the area behind your monitor or laptop screen and setting it as your desktop image.

Creating a pretty convincing illusion that your laptop or monitor is totally transparent..

And theres a whole bunch more up on here

Finally a way to destress and express rage and hatered on those you hold most dear to you..

Whack your boss in cyberspace so you dont go to prison…

I think this is just too amusing for words.. select the objects of desire to introduce your boss to, and turn up the volume..