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Dan Cederholm recently returned from New Zealand, where he spoke at the Webstock conference.

From his short posting, written with a lot of humour, I jumped to his photos from the conference. And this particular photo:

[(CC)2008 by Dan Cederholm]

…made me laugh a lot:)

I want one of these T-shirts, too! :-D

If you have a mouse at home, and want to catch it in the most humane way possible, then this invaluable resource I’ve found is for you:

How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap

(Thanks, Chris! :-)

“Cows With Guns” is one of those music video clips, that make you smile and make you think at the same time. The music is very good, the Flash animation - too. Actually, yesterday, while checking the immense file archives on my computer, I found this video by accident (downloaded from where? I don’t remember…). I started the video and started humming the tune of this song almost immediately.

To whom belongs the original of this song, though?… Don’t remember…

PS More info about Cows With Guns (music and animation) - on the final screenshot.
PPS (2007/Sep/17@16:15) I found more info about the singer, who performs “Cows With Guns” - his name is Dana Lyons, he released a whole album under the same name, and it appears, that he’s quite a popular singer:)

One more impressive video:

The man has three voices… and can use them simultaneously! You won’t believe, until you see… I mean, until you hear it;-)

Jerôme Murat - just watch, and look beyond the technique…

Impressive!

PS Who said I cannot write short posts? :-p

…or so it appears from one of the latest ad clips from Microsoft? :-D

See for yourself the ad for Internet Explorer 7 over at YouTube. I was stunned after seeing this… I am not a big fan of Microsoft (for years I struggle to make IE6 to read my CSS code as it should), but they have… errr… sense of humour? ;-)

I read a long article today on the benefits of laugh, with lots of sicentific data on how it may improve your health, etc.

But what caught my attention more was a research, made on 2 million people accross the whole planet, with the aim to assess around 40′000 jokes.

The results of two nations caught my eye - Belguim and Scotland.

Best joke in Belgium was acknowledged the following:

“Why ducks are web-footed? To extinguish fires with them. And why elephants have flat feet? To step over the ducks on fire.”

Hmm?… And in Scotland joke number one was:

“I want to die peacefully in my sleep in the train, like my grand-father did, and not screaming in horror, like his passengers.”

This one was a good one! I had to read the joke twice before I’ve got it… :-D

Happy April Fool’s Day to everyone! (Today is not a suitable day for anything serious, and with all my coughing and sneezing this weekend, what more is left to me than to keep my bed, to read, write and (occasionaly) draw a little;)

I saw a funny post about a robot which cleans your house and laughed a lot (found via antonia.del.bg).

But I got a little be annoyed that the author of the comic strip maybe thinks that watching TV is the thing which’ll make his life easier and more efficient. You save time… to be in front of the TV set? Hmm…

Here’s my version (redrawn quickly with Macromedia Fireworks):

(Because I’m lucky, the author has published the picture under CC and I can make changes to it, by mentioning him as the original author:-)

And I have gave up television totally a few years ago. We do not have a TV at home, and do not plan to have any in the future.

You can gain so much free time by getting rid of it!

Time used for drawing for your own pleasure, for example:)))

PS This is not a joke:)

I drink my Jacobs Cronat Gold coffee now (mmmmh…), with honey and cream, and think how beautiful Life is:)

My experiment is over - the week without coffee, black and green tea, beer, wine, chocolate and other things, which contain caffeine, tanine and alcohol:)

And here come the long-awaited results from this experiment:

1. I survived;-)
2. I feel good:-)
3. Everything is much tastier to me now:-)

I may repeat the experiment, one day. But now…

…I plan to have some crispy potato chips tonight (or fried potatos), together with some nice, cold beer, mmmmh;-)

First, happy St. Valentine’s day to everyone;-)

Sorry for the dark accompanying image, but I couldn’t restrain myself - this artist (a recent discovery of Ani’s, btw) brought me to tears from laughing with his black humour, but maybe my it’s just due to my fatigue (too much work lately), the tries of the French flu to get hold of me a second time this winter, and my slightly dark mood…

We exchanged already a couple of presents with Ani (including a very interesting book by Bernard Werber) and plan to have a great evening, supper and all and pondering upon the meaning of the Universe over a cup of orange juice (the reason being my recent vow for no caffeine/wine/tanine/beer for one week;-)