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Birthday Girls & Boys – 9th January

Post author By Lucy Furr
Post date January 9, 2009

More cool cartoons at Toothpaste For Dinner.

If today is your birthday, we at onelargeprawn wish you a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. And it’s on a Friday – you lucky so-and-so – hope you got cool pressies and cake and beer and tequila and lots of other good stuff (and not a Lance Armstrong cancer bracelet).

Also born on this day were:

1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author
1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1933 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1967 – Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1975 – Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1982 – Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William of Wales

Thanks for the info Wikipedia.

Let me know if you’d like me to add a friend, family member or little ol’ you to our daily birthday lists of (famous) people.

Mail me names, years of birth, and what makes you or them famous.

Tags birthday, famous, happy birthday, people, you

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Uncyclopedia, the Content-Free Encyclopedia

Post author By prawn1
Post date January 4, 2009

Since its launch in 2005, Uncyclopedia, an addictive parody of Wikipedia, has grown into a formidable wiki.

It is the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and according to co-founder Jonathan Huang, there are two main rules at Uncyclopedia: 1) Be funny and not just stupid, and 2) Don’t be a dick. BUT if you’re being funny and being a dick, chances are your entry may stay. In any case, it is the masses that decide what’s funny, with users and admins constantly on the prowl for quality assurance.

Uncyclopedia has an extensive Howto section from which I have learnt a lot more than I should admit to:

Dive into a whole new world of unknowledge at Uncyclopedia.

Tags howtos, parody, uncyclopedia, wikipedia

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Should You Forward That Mail?

Post author By prawn1
Post date December 21, 2008

Tags flow charts, mail forwarding

Lists Useful/Useless Info

Twingly’s Top 100 Blogs

Twingly.com, a spam-free blog search engine that currently serves 25 millions search results per month, has compiled a Top 100 list of the most popular blogs today.

Twingly uses a concept of a Blog Rank for their metrics. Akin to Google’s Page Rank service, Blog Rank measures the web prominence of blogs only. The Blog Rank indicates how much influence and importance a particular blog has become.

Twingly can also group by language, so here are the Top 10 English blogs:

10. Perez Hilton
9. Lifehacker
8. ReadWriteWeb
7. The Official Google Blog
6. Mashable!
5. CNN Political Ticker
4. Engadget
3. Gizmodo
2. Boing Boing

And the top blog is …

See the rest of the list at Twingly – via Neatorama.

Tags Lists, top blogs, twingly

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Leave the Toilet Seat Up

I’ve been trained to leave the toilet seat down, but I now questioning this decision, for good reason I think.

Livescience reports that some British doctors are advising that toilets seats should be left up as heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seat could fall down onto the penises of unsuspecting toddlers.

Doctors who have treated such “penis-crush” injuries offer the following tips:

Use toilet seats that fall slowly and with reduced momentum.
Heavier toilet seats could be banned in houses with male infants.
Households with male infants should consider leaving the toilet seat up after use.
Toddlers should be educated to hold the toilet seat up with one hand while urinating.

So there you have it. The first public service announcement from the onelargeprawn blog. Keep those toddler penises safe from harm this festive period ;)