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You just know we live in a rapid-edit world when people resort to bite-sized dating.
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Further to yesterday's post, "Tube Haiku" now has its own home - all visits and contributions welcome!
‹ 28.7.00
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For some reason, it's much more fun to read e-mail from friends (for example South African ones) in the accent they'd use if they were actually there talking to you. How's your English?
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More stupid web tricks ... I love this series.
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Cheryl started yelping behind me just now - it seems as though she drank one of these a little too fast. Thus, from The Straight Dope archives, I present: What causes "ice cream headache"?
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Viva la Napster!
‹ 27.7.00
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Fellow Londoners ... a fun new game for you to play! I call it ... "Tube Haiku". The rules are pretty simple: just make up a haiku about the person sitting across from you the next time you take a trip on that fabulous underground contraption. And don't forget to mail me your haiku! My first effort:
Sushi girl on tube
Eat black seaweed, rice, soy sauce
Hide your shame at it
My flatmate's effort:
Haiku haiku
I do not like you
Haiku
I think he missed the point somewhat.
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Another reason to do away with bicameral legislatures.
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Apologies for the absence - normal programming has been resumed!
‹ 27.7.00
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Proof positive that some people have nothing better to do with their time: The Big List of Movie Mistakes. Take this example:
"In the scene where Austin and Vanessa are unpacking in the hotel room and he suggests that they shag, she reminds him that they are only sharing a room on the 'context' of being husband and wife. The word she means is 'pretext'."Oh dear.
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A new addition to the driftwood sidebar below: Not So Soft. A wonderful little blog crammed with all the digital goods (Meg, you're an excellent correspondent ... thanks for the Greece tips!).
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Send a ransom note to friends and loved ones.
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An old work buddy from NZ took me on a surprise trip to the theatre (and yes, you have to pronounce it "thee-ar-tar" to have any posh cred whatsoever), to see "An Inspector Calls": an entertaining yarn with a bizarre little ending.
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The end of time as we know it?
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New taste sensation = Innocent cranberry and raspberry smoothie ... mmmm. The makers have the best marketing site I've seen for a long time: the Innocent online gym!
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Stunning, organic images of our own hunk of rock at Earth From Above.
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Type never looked so good: for some reason, moving characters are a lot more powerful to me than other moving objects (I'll spare everyone - including myself - any speculative cognitive psychology theories for why this is so).
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Tom turns 28: a reflective time for Mr Coates by all accounts ... happy birthday mate!
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So "Big Brother" started last night ... looks like it'll be an interesting time for all concerned. It had a very "first day at school camp" feel to it, which is understandable I guess and the women were a lot more interesting than the men - maybe I should be meeting some more English women?
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Life's little victories.
‹ 19.7.00
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On the homefront:
"Gore police are embarassed by the incident - exposure they could well have done without".
(haw haw, very punny)
‹ 19.7.00
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Aardman characters Pib and Pog are currently appearing in an ad over here for some kind of dunkable snack: they're so cute! (deceptively so). The original animation is also available for viewing (after registration) at Atom Films.
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Form and function in bite-sized chunks at A Momentary Vignette.
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Things are quiet today at work ... a little too quiet. I swear it's "The Quiet Earth" come to life.
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On the weekend, I finally finished the 910 page epic that is Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon": an enjoyable geeky romp, written with a lot of humour on a subject which had the potential to be quite dry, "Boys Own Annual" stuff. Well worth a look.
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A whole site dedicated to those frustrated souls who travel by London's underground: welcome to Tubehell.
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Haiku has made an appearance on these pages before, but what the hell ... succinct summaries of your favourite flics in Haiku Movie Reviews.
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Bonjour à tous mes lecteurs français ... et à jour heureux de Bastille!
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This is a little worrying ...
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If you decided to call your dot.com dream co "Experts Exchange" that would seem perfectly okay, wouldn't it? That is, until you actually type out the URL: www.expertsexchange.com. Professional transgendering services anyone?
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After reading these house listings (at suck.com), I'm a much happier man for renting.
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Quiet day today ... sorry: work has me clamped under its vice-like grip. Oh blessed weekend, where art thou now?
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A great parody of American political campaign sites thanks to the "X-Men" movie's marketing department.
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It's nice to see a Kiwi gent "making it big" through mp3.com.
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Under a blood red sky ...
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Despite the inherent limitations of surveys, it's still quite disturbing to think that a quarter of those Britons polled by "Which?" don't ever intend going on-line. Saying the internet is "irrelevant" is like saying Shakespearean works are irrelevant because they were written hundreds of years ago. Derive your own meaning, please.
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Does your weblog deserve to die?
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Phew! I had my doubts for a while there.
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Telly from a different dimension ... I mean who wouldn't pay to watch stuff like this:
9:45 New Series
Choo-choo Metalface Shinefright Assembly
"Eerie gameshow in which contestants dressed as schoolchildren gather on an abandoned railway platform at 3am and take turns shining a torch through the windows of a passing train carriage in an attempt to illuminate the face of a man wearing a featureless metal mask before he can finish carving an unsettling poem onto a wax dummy's chest with an unwashed razorblade."
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Because I like this site and this site, I'm a
high-indexing purchaser and sophisticated pop culture consumer. Can anyone translate?
‹ 11.7.00
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People who live in glass basilicas shouldn't throw stones.
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Utter fools.
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I'm sure you can track global climatic changes by watching old footage of Wimbledon finals - the parade o' champions thing they screened during the rain breaks yesterday showed a lot of vintage clips and yes, the players battled it out in brilliant sunshine! (up until recent years that is). At least the English have a penchant for talking about the weather as much as we do back home.
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Apologies to Katy: now that I've seen your pic, (#3 in the series) I can confidently say you look nothing like Yootha Joyce. As for Tom ...
;)
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Looks like someone was bored in logic class.
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One of the defining social psychology experiments of the 20th century: the Stanford Prison Experiment.
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And you thought sushi was only for eating ... now let it tell your fortune.
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Kristin just sent her 7minutes mailing list a fantastic e-mail: check out her excellent site and sign up for the list - honest writing from an excellent soul.
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It's fun to read about Mark's adventures in London ... I've only been here a few months myself but you do kind of forget what a culture shock it is (and moreso for an American I'd imagine). I initially promised myself that I'd chronicle my adventures here but it seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit (add another "note to self" to the pile).
Tom and Katy (the George and Mildred of weblogging? ;)) have also been logging their encounters with Mark (N.B. No permalinks here as they're all great logs which deserve a thorough reading anyway!).
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Guess who'll be finding a job with the RIAA?
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Why does this site transfer you to this site? Will the madness never end?
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The history of Zimmer (only posted for the geeky pun value of the URL).
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Mooks (the clothing company) have the reverse-Boo of websites ... a load of jazzy animations but at least they have absolutely no e-commerce intentions whatsoever.
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Trouble at home: Sheep jibe raises MP's fury
[via prolific]
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Celtic Feng Shui? That's the weirdest East-meets-West combination I've ever seen.
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Sabrina draws everything she eats on her Palm Pilot.
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Rip Curl have a very stylish site ... quite surf-evocative which is the whole idea I guess (nice RL clothes too).
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Londoner's sure know how to throw a party ... a brilliant day with brilliant people, old and new :)
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C.O.R.T.E.X.: Cybernetic Organism Responsible for Troubleshooting and Efficient eXecution ... find out your own killer machine acronym through the kind folks at The Brunching Shuttlecocks.
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Scrapbooking for "Real" People! Over 300 Layout Ideas and Growing!
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"More Frictionary!" by Suck's Polly Esther: I'm definitely going to start using some of these newspeak gems.
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