I’ve just come across a site which has a number of inspirational signs and I thought I’d share a few of my favourites with you (all 31 RSS feed readers and 182 daily visitors):
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Joke: Inspirational Signs
September 13th, 2008 by Richy C. No comments »Snippet: What a waste of a domain name
September 13th, 2008 by Richy C. No comments »http://www.londonjobvacancies.co.uk sounds a perfect job site URL – unfortunately, it’s owned by and only used by the British Board of Film Classification: who have their own website at www.bbfc.co.uk/. What a waste of a high value domain name 
International Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 12th, 2008 by Richy C. No comments »This coming Friday is Talk Like a Pirate Day (UK site)- and I’m getting a start “Let’s download that <insert popular movie> torrent and let’s start up Limewire…”
Oh – you mean not a “software pirate” but the global warming preventing Aaarr! pirates.
Matt Cutts has some appropriate pirate fonts available from his site (along with some other font hints/tips such as making a font online for free).
Anyway, if you’re unwilling to learn how to talk like a pirate you Bilge rat, then show a leg my hearties and be reading this Peter Pan extract before you go down into Davy Jones’ Locker without grog!
Avast belay, yo ho, heave to,
A-pirating we go
And if we’re parted by a shot
We’re sure to meet below!
Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life,
The flag o’skull and bones
A merry hour, a hempen rope
And ‘hey’ for Davy Jones!
Large Hydron Collider
September 12th, 2008 by Richy C. No comments »If you aren’t sure the Large Hydron Collider has destroyed the world, then this website hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com will let you know – however, you could just keep an it via the web cams.
News: Biased Reporting
September 15th, 2008 by Richy C. No comments »A recent (ok, August) report on This Is Money (originally from the Daily Mail – who own ThisIsMoney, Metro and many other publications) states quite clearly in their headline “BBC not value for money, say 47%” and continues with “Nearly half of the public think the BBC does not represent good value for money, a survey has revealed”
In the 6th paragraph, the survey results are shown to be “47% disagree that the corporation represented ‘good value for money’” – so 53% agreed that it does represent value for money*: so the headline should “BBC IS value for money, say 53%”.
(* = yes, I know that it could also mean that 53% either agreed or had no opinion, but without the details of they survey – whose source is unnamed – I can’t say for certain).
The biased survey/poll then goes on the “ONLY 41% agree that the licence fee is an ‘appropriate’ way of funding it” – again, it makes it sound like more people are against the licence fee than for it – but continuing the paragraph shows than only 37% are against the licence fee.
Talk about “getting the headlines you want!”
The BBC itself has an article on it’s website about What the survey didn’t say which illustrates other examples of biased survey results.
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