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Saturday, August 23, 2003 |
 Common errors in English. Brilliant.What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I'll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we're concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak. Via Sean Lloyd.
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Friday, August 22, 2003 |
 Gotcha. Found at linkfilter. Women pose as underage girls in chatrooms and very quickly become involved in a chat. With certain people. They then forward the person's details to the Perverted Justice website. Brilliant.This site targets pedophiles in regional chatrooms, then posts pictures, names and numbers (they ask that you call those numbers!), as well as the chat text. ramsst69: ok please send it i'd like to see
lil_pink_princess_90: http://www.perverted-justice.com
lil_pink_princess_90: u there?
ramsst69: yes
ramsst69: whats that site??
lil_pink_princess_90: It's a site where people like me pose as underage girls, and then bust pervs like you who try to solicit us for sex. You might wanna bookmark it. Your name, telephone number, photo, and a transcript of this chatlog will appear on the front page within 24 hours.
lil_pink_princess_90: You're busted, shitbag.
lil_pink_princess_90: Got anything to say for yourself?
Yahoo! Messenger: ramsst69 has logged out. (8/17/2003 5:51 PM)
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 Unbelievable. What country am I living in? This is worse than the US! I can only hope those 'immigration officials' got fired.'Tourists' fail Beatles quiz
Six Brazilians have been turned away by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport after failing a quiz about the Beatles. Reports say immigration officials refused to let them into the UK when they failed to answer basic questions about the band. They apparently did not know who Yoko Ono was and thought Ringo Starr was dead. Via it&w.
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 Photos of the Jewish Cemetery in Hamburg Altona.Considered as one of the worlds most significant jewish cemeteries. In use from 1611 - 1869. Now undergoing research and restauration. The cemetery is not open to the public.
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 Luminarium. Wonderful resource of English Literature: Medieval, Renaissance and 17th Century.This site combines three sites first created in 1996 to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature. Nothing replaces a quality library, but hopefully this site will help fill the needs of those who have not access to one. Via linkfilter.
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Thursday, August 21, 2003 |
 The Emigrants. Wow. Do you have a few hours to spare? Then check out The Ships List. A very fascinating website about the immigration to The New World with lots of documents, like Ship Descriptions, Passenger Lists, Diaries and Journals, Ship Wrecks and much, much more. Can't help it - I like stuff like that.TheShipsList website was first established in August 1999, to help those seeking the details of their ancestors' ships; passenger records; contemporary immigration reports; newspaper records; ship wreck information; ship pictures &c. We quickly outgrew our "personal" webspace and so registered our own domain in May 2000. Since then we have grown to about 1000 totally free access web-pages [...] I actually found the URL in the 'Sources and Acknowledgements' section of Joseph O'Connor's novel Star of the Sea, a highly recommendable book.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2003 |
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Sunday, August 17, 2003 |
 On the %$*& Moon. Here's what Neil Armstrong really said when he walked on the moon (Flash).In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast. Via linkfilter.
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Toys again! Brilliant: 
Russian Utopia. 
The Lurkers. 
The Vampire. The picture on the left shows the 
The Best. Wonderful. I finally found him. The all-time great 
Danger: Eros! A 
Jim Aparo. Small 
Sticker. Man, am I being creative today. Here's a sticker for all your blogging needs. Steal it. Download it. Use it.
Solemates. 
Enter Tim Baggaley. Experienced 
More Type. Check out the 
Hot Metal. Ok, the website of the 
21:55. Just back from Brussels and too tired to do any serious blogging. Even worse, I might have to work in London tomorrow, so don't expect too many updates. Meanwhile enjoy the little comic I did especially for all of you.
Again. Off to