Slobodan Milosevic Staked, Still Dead

Better safe than sorry, I suppose.

Serbian vampire hunters have acted to prevent the very remote possibility that former dictator Slobodan Milosevic might stage a come-back - by driving a three-foot stake through his heart.

According to Ananova, the politically-motivated Van Helsings, led by Miroslav Milosevic (no relation), gave themselves up to cops after attacking the deceased despot in his grave in the eastern town of Pozarevac. Milosevic popped his clogs back in 2006, while on trial in a UN war crimes tribunal for various unsavoury activities connected with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.

Miroslav Milosevic said “he and his fellow vampire hunters acted to stop the former dictator returning from the dead to haunt the country”. His team explained that the wooden stake had been “driven into the ground and through the late president’s heart”.

I hope they considered cutting off his head and burying it in the shadow of a church, while they were at it…

(via Warren Ellis)

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Percussive Repair for Tivo Freeze-Up

So what do you do when you return home from a long absence, and find that instead of keeping track of all of the shows you watch, your trusty Tivo has decided to turn into a not-so-trusty Tivo?

Well, first you call for repairs, and then (after being told that you can pay $150 to repair a device they’re basically giving away for free these days), you do this…

I’m anxiously awaiting the sequel — “How to configure a bittorrent client…”

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Dylan Hears a Who - Dr. Seuss, Dylan Stylee

Just in case your weekend isn’t weird enough, be sure to check out Dylan Hears a Who — 7 imminently Dylan-esque Seuss ballads, including a twelve-and-a-half minute rendition of The Cat in the Hat…

Listen on the page, or download the whole collection as a zip file; there’s even album artwork for the metadata completists out there…

(Via KGB Report)

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Bat Country

And that just seemed to call for this –

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Dead Irish Writers

You know, this was a lot more fun than reading Ulysses, but maybe that’s just me.

Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Joyce ‘n’ Beckett
(NSFW Language)

(via MeFi)

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Quick — Undeck The Halls!

Today’s moment of Holiday Zen…

“Holiday Decorations Can Create Major Wi-Fi Disturbances”

It figures — just when I was wondering if I could use an aluminum xmas tree as an omnidirectional antenna, and amp-up the wattage enough to zap any cat that tried to climb it…

Bah humbug.

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The Colgate invisible shield finally got ‘em…

Generation Landslide has always been by far my favorite Alice Cooper song.

Today Boing Boing turned up this brilliant YouTube video mashed up from vintage commercials and propaganda films…

Enjoy!

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Women’s petition against coffee — 1674

Somebody’s always complaining about coffee — way back in 1674 London, a group of disgruntled wives of coffee patrons distributed this flyer protesting that coffee was denying them of their husbands (ahem) attentions.

The Occasion of which Insufferable Disaster, after a serious Enquiry, and Discussion of the Point by the Learned of the Faculty, we can Attribute to nothing more than the Excessive use of that Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor called COFFEE, which Riffling Nature of her Choicest Treasures, and Drying up the Radical Moisture, has so Eunucht our Husbands, and Crippled our more kind Gallants, that they are become as Impotent, as Age, and as unfruitful as those Desarts whence that unhappy Berry is said to be brought.

This of course didn’t go without a response from the men…

(via MeFi)

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Coffee Songs

Locust St. has posted a great collection of songs about coffee (with links you can listen to), as part of an ode to mankind’s favorite balm for the over-indulger.

Songs about coffee generally are not celebratory, but are often quotidian, focusing on simple pleasures. They are hymns of reconciliation, of quiet mornings, of bringing things back to order. Not to say they are celibate–some cap a long night’s affair. Even the louche swinger in Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” apologetically tells his conquest in the last verse that he’s out of milk and coffee.

Via Metafilter (where they list a few that Locust St. missed)

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The Internet is Down?

I’ve spent the better part of the last week living in a hotel room out in the hinterlands, with the world’s most annoying up-and-down wi-fi connection…

Life was a lot like this (funny video, work safe), ‘cept they wouldn’t let me go to the router room to fix it….

Back to real connectivity tomorrow — hurray!

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