chez dafyd

As a long-time Radio 4 listener, it’s fascinating to get a glimpse behind the scenes of the Today programme…

One might argue that a viral video stops being viral when the programme it is promoting has to promote the video itself… Still, fun though.

…the Channel 4 News gets rickrolled:

Bizarre. See also this terribly earnest BBC News report…

For St Patrick’s Day, “Danny Boy”, performed by the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker. And why not?

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Heh – in America, [...]

The Canadian High Commission updated its website today (or yesterday, but I’m pretty certain it was today). Previously, as I said on Thursday, there was no indication of how long one should wait for a work permit application, just a vague “most are dealt with in three weeks” kind of statistic.

Now, as well as changing [...]

I’m in the middle of an exchange of emails with a “Microsoft EMEA Technical Support Clerk” (a tech support guy – of which more later), so here’s a Simpson’s video.

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This is genius…

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Better than Timothy Dalton, at any rate.

It’s been around for a couple of months now, I know, but I’ve not…

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Crumbs, looks like it’s meme day today…

Spotted this on both Jeremy and Lemurgirl’s blogs:

What Is Your Battle Cry?Yea, verily: Who is that, rampaging on the terrain! It is Dafyd, hands clutching a piece of chainlink fence! And with a low roar, his voice cometh:“For the love of beatings, I sow darkness and discord like a [...]

(Clicky for big picture – Private Eye issue 1135 – 24 June 2004)

You can’t make it out that well in the scans, but the bottom stroke of the last E of EYE reads POD… possibly my favourite joke in this issue – subtle, but clever.