Thursday Miscellany

Mixum-gatherum of stories from around the web, with a heavy porn flavour.

• This one's for Woody: movie theatre has unintentionally dirty marquee.
  
• Tape of drunk Larry King from many years ago.
  
• Nicolas Sarkozy drunk after meeting with Vladimir Putin.
  
• Google launches Wikipedia competitor, Knol (but not knol.com, which seems to be a Dutch manufacturer of masturbation aids). Knol's articles are written by experts, not the masses. The first article that caught my eye was one on Breast Augmentation. Despite their controlled commenting system, the first comment is "yay tits!". Other good comment about how the "before" pictures (supplied by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons) are "gray and dead-looking".
  
• Meanwhile, new Google rival, Cuil, had a slight problem with gay porn images popping up in inappropriate places.
  

Harpists: Merry Miller

Remember that embarrassing cable TV interview with Holly Hunter from a year ago? The interviewer, Merry Miller, is also an accomplished harpist. She makes music for babies.

I hope this new endeavour helps her overcome her moment of infamy. Sadly, it didn't work for Bill Buckner when he released an album of sea shanties played on the spoons.

Blogs: Patanoia

Time for a new slogan for Patanoia, and time to retire "Compressed knitters humbling formica - reassured against the against, again with the sideswipe." It had a good run.

Emergency Calls: Drunk British Woman

Gizmodo has audio of a drunk British woman calling 999 and asking when the internet started, "me darlin'". As they say, the operator is amazingly polite.

More Avon & Somerset Police videos.

Lyrics Quiz: Remember

1. Do you remember there was a time (ahaha) when people on the street were walking hand in hand in hand. They used to talk about the weather, making plans together. Days would last forever.
   
2. Think of me as one you'd never figured would fade away so young, with so much left undone. Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her.
   
3. That's 'Retha Franklin. She don't remember the Queen of Soul.
   
4. For the life of me, I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise.
   
5. I remember way back then, when everything was true, and when we would have such a very good time. Such a fine time. Such a happy time.
   
6. I've played all kinds of palaces, and laid all kinds of girls. I can't remember faces, I don't remember names. Ah, but what the hell. You know it's just as well, 'cause after a while and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.
   
7. I can almost remember their funny faces that time you told them that you were going to be marrying.
   
8. Here as I sit at this empty cafe thinking of you, I remember all those moments lost in wonder that we'll never find again.
   
9. So long ago, I don't remember when, that's when they say I lost my only friend. Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease, as I listened through the cemetery trees.
   
10. Remember what the dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head.