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Come hear my tale of Christmas glee...
Which this year shall be much in rhyme
(I'm sorry and please bear with me...)
A mount so high it touches space;
Within: a massive darkened cave,
Wherein a sharp and pointy race
Of tiny elves has been enslaved...
And in the centre, Mrs Claus -
A tower of computer might
(And built for no apparent cause)
Stands passive in the candlelight.
Beside her there's a silhouette
A disconnected robot form
Who waits each year for holidays
The chance to serve and be reborn.
But then, what's this? The Yule alarm!?
A klaxxon sounds throughout the lair
And with a twitch, the robot's arm
Thrusts holly fistfuls in the air!
He stands, a monster, next the flames
That every year before hath burned.
And lo! His robot voice proclaims
That [SECRET SANTA HAS RETURNED](http://www.thinkblank.com/santa2003/)!
The google deskbar looks pretty cool. Of course, you need need an os with active desktop (i.e, not windows nt 4) to be able to use it. arses.
Hot news in the blogging world this week is the prostitute blog. [via haddock,b3ta,etc]
This is a very cool way to do a shopping guide, but must have taken forever to make. [via pep]
Classic Spectrum game Head Over Heels makes a welcome return with rather ace graphics.
The [iamcal tale](http://www.iamcal.com/tale.php) has been updated thanks to Thomas Klovert. Now all I need is for someone to actually submit some exposition and move
the story along from a string of badly linked murders ;)
Special thanks this week to warren, chris, fluffy, heidi and calan for being fantastic.
clever cactus seems like it might be really cool, if only i could figure out what it actually does. requires a speedy computer due to being the-evil-that-is-java based.
More hardcore case modding: Tandy 102 [via giles]
A nice explanation of co-routines, which we're going to have now in parrot (right?) [via esolang]
Having trouble sending email? Have you considered that maybe your intended recipient is too far away? [via london.pm]
404 - porn not found? [via Locke]
iCan isn't launched, and already it has enemies [via haddock]
nowheregirl is on hold until next year [via #h8luff]
For the SVG crowd again - a map experiment with splines. (takes a while to load and render)
A trillion years old now, but never mentioned here. until now. blogtree
This huge pixel art is great [via jason pultz]
Hot on the heels of the london bloggers site rebuild comes this nifty interactive London transport map. You'll need a PC with the Adobe SVG viewer to play with it.
Group hug is both great and extremely depressing [via The Face, among others]
London Bloggers is back with a new design and a fancy little widget:
The tale has been updated, thanks to Matt Squirrell (username "Grim..." on this site).
Could [this story](http://www.stalbansobserver.co.uk/news/display.var.731642.index.pierced_man_told_to_wear_box_on_his_head.html
) have the best headline ever? [via jess]
Casemod'ing is kind of lame. Unless you have a pair of sunfire 15k's [via sal]
The lovely drew (who has a column in .net magazine) has published his first novella. it's good.
All of my articles are now available in PDF form, thanks to fpdf (pointed out to me by jeffld).
Reader Millington's new book is out.
You should read Acts of gord
Would this experiment work in the UK? I doubt it, but would like to try :)
A perhaps useful resource i put together - the HTML entities table. Because it's online (i already have it in book form, many times over), you can actually see which entities work in which browsers. Snazzy. The table is generated on the fly from the W3C entity DTD.
Oooh, oooh, ooh. New Final Fantasy Movie. And it's a sequel to FF7. My life is now complete.
A neat guide to doing references properly.
Check out this ascii wysiwyg editor for osx. i saw something similar for windows a while back. [via giles]
PDF995 is exactly what i've been looking for for ages.
mosix sounds interesting.
I nice suggestion of how to fix tabs in OSX. [via giles]
Possibly the best site on the web? [via matt s]
How about some we-love-jacob wallpaper fodder?
First encounters on Win32 (you'll need the game too). My life is complete.
London.pm's Kake writes a nice introduction to using Class::DBI with the Template Toolkit to avoid writing much code for perl webapps.
[New citycreator is now out](http://www.citycreator.com)
The tale has been updated - why don't you add the next part?
"i dont understand why all you guys are so mean about michael jackson!! is n't this supposed to be some kind of official fan site or something?" - Someone seems to have got the wrong impression in this iamcal thread
Perl exegesis 6 is out. It's all about subroutine semantics. Enjoy.
I'm a few weeks late on this, and everyone's seen it, but dhtml lemmings is seriously good. [via ste]