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The latest Iron Web Master specs are up. The round 5 theme is fitness. And the sites are due up Thursday 20 March at 3pm PST (-800 GMT?).

But what can I use as a parody theme this time?

I had thought of doing Exercise, but that is too close to the last one. Maybe ‘Get on your bike’? Thought I can’t think of any other bike jokes.

So, I’m suffering from a little writer’s block. Anybody got any good ideas that I can borrow?

My latest offering for the Iron Web Master competition if Go To Hell.

The theme for round 4 of the competition is Travel, where should you go, how to get there and what to take. So I though why not advocate travel to a destination most people wouldn’t necessarily want to go. And the double meaning is fun

You can rate my entry here. There are a couple of more hours to do that.

The humour in this site is a little more blatant as people voting for the previous sites didn’t seem to get the joke.

In the world of the eco friendly do you find that it isn’t easy being green?
Are there too many rules to remember?

The theme of round 2 of he Iron Webmaster competition is ‘Go Green‘. With a push for environmentally friendliness, organics and global warming.

For my entry I entry I have produced a site promoting reduction of carbon emissions, and how you can contribute to this.

Go visit the It’s not easy being green site, and find the Eco Message.

Then go vote ‘Best’ for it on the Rate page. Remember to leave a comment before selecting the rating.

Edit:
And the thing I forgot to include is a link to the Cafepress shop. So here it is: Eco Message #03

Do you find programs with English dictionaries where all the spelling is actually in U.S. English annoying? Or that a ‘World series’ doesn’t include people outside America?

I found a funny take on this in John Cleese’s “Letter to America”. A notice revoking their independence and informing them of the changes that will be made.

It is very funny and worth a read.

Watching tennis this week I think I’ve had enough of the serve by Sam Kekovich. All that lambenting about Australia Day.

In past years vegetarians and Cronulla rioters copped the flank. This year Sam racked up some more insulted parties, including the New Zealand PM.

As always there is the call for an Australia Week. Though the petition “will not be formally lodged with parliament, but Sam will seek to present this to the PM“.

While I can see that the MLA thinks the campaign still has a leg to stand on. I think it is wearing a little thin and should be given the chop.

At Woolworths in Marrickville Metro on Friday night I noticed some bread from a different time zone, +851 GMT.

It was interesting to so much bread on sale, a full table and shelf. Must have cooked too much and about to go off. But close inspection revealed that it wasn’t to expire till 10 or 11 February 2008.

Only problem is it hadn’t even been baked yet! The baked date was ‘8 February 2008‘.

There is something fishy going on here, and I’m not talking Omega-3 in bread.

Woolworths must be shipping in bread from the future to supplement its bakery on high demand days. And they got carried away, shipping in too much from too far in the future. Looks like a job for Jean Claude Van Damme.

Though a more probable explanation for this is that someone set the date on the labelling machine wrong. So it is printing dates out of whack by more than a month. So Woolworths is probably just trying to sell off quickly bread that has been mislabelled.

The time travel version is more interesting, though the mislabelling is more likely correct.

/*
 * Automated santa
 * Version: 0.1
 *
 * http://blog.tengutech.net/
 *
 */

#include <seasons_greetings.h>
#include <children.h>

char[][] children;
char[] child;

children = populateChildren();

foreach (child in children)
{
    merryChristmas(child);

    if (isBad(child))
        noPresent(child);
    else if (isGood(child))
       givePresent(child);
    else
    	logException(child, “Christmas limbo”);
}

Building Lego ducks for my child I ran out of appropriate blocks. Desperate to complete the project, as any Lego mad scientist would do, I chose to opt for a hybrid animal.

Using pieces from the farm set, cow genes were combined with the existing duck, resulting in the transgenic (cow)duck.

But how far should one take playing God?
Is it ethical to create GMO Lego?
And are we warping our children’s imagination?

In related news:
(of a more serious nature)

• GM canola gets go-ahead in NSW and Vic (SMH, 27 Nov 2007)

Came across this parody of the writers strike in the USA. Would the Internet survive if bloggers stopped? What would people do with all that time they spend blogging and reading other people’s blogs?

(see YouTube movie below the fold)

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Camera sweeps threough a cave full with rubble. Centres on a metal cage and zooms in on two people inside. Covered in dust you only see two silhouettes. White cords run from their ears to small white boxes.

A voice over says “When next you get trapped in a cave remember to take your iPod”.

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