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Right ... off home. Feel like crap.
‹ 30.1.01
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"Super Friends": I used to adore this show when I was but a pup. I can still remember watching it when I was four or five in our old brick house in Invercargill ... they used to have these weird safety tips at the end and I think it was Aquaman who presented the one that stuck with me: if you get something in your eye, pull the eyelid down and hold it there for a second or two - the tears it causes will flush out whatever's in there. Simple but effective.
[via threadnaught]
‹ 30.1.01
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Luke on "Muriel's Wedding": I'm in 100% agreement. It is amazing how many people get shat on in that movie. It comes with the down-under territory I think ... most comedy that emerges from the Antipodes tends to have a darker, more subversive element to it (or at least a few genuinely sobering moments scattered throughout). Which makes you think about things. Which is good.
‹ 30.1.01
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After dining out for four nights in a row, I think I'll settle for a flat-cooked meal tonight! Friday saw an evening's birthday celebrations at the Jazz Café (warning: extreme flashturbation) ... an over-priced meal but the boiler-suited twentysomething jazz-funk band Mr Gone more than made up for it. Saturday was a farewell dinner for flatmates Nani and Jason (who are winging their way back to Aotearoa at the end of the week) at Cafe Suze ... wonderful Pacific Rim food with New Zealand wine and Speights as well! Ah, Speights ... student nectar at its finest. Finally, last night consisted of a large helping of satay, lager and banter at "Street Hawker" in Maida Vale with the usual suspects. A top way to end a great weekend.
‹ 30.1.01
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Picture it. The morning after. Following the early morning lavatory trip, mad rush to the kitchen for a litre or five of water, and cursing yourself for smoking so much your lungs now feel like they've been through a cheesegrater, a nagging feeling starts to creep in. "Oh dear", you think, as the sudden realisation arrives. In your drunken post-party haze you've forgotten exactly what that bloke/blokess you snogged the night before actually looked like? So ... were they a minger or were they a minor deity? Put the pieces together here.
‹ 27.1.01
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As random strangers are wont to do, I had a variant of "The Travelling Ashes" trick performed on me last night (I knew the secret but played along for his sake). The trick works best when the move is done very early, and the "incantations" are very elaborate (and this guy had some doozies too). Impress your friends and loved ones.
‹ 27.1.01
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Highly recommended: Busaba Eathai in Soho ... the tastiest Thai I've had since I've been over here and at a bloody reasonable price (starter + main + ½ bottle of wine = £16). The company was great as well!
‹ 27.1.01
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Oveheard just now: reformulating the company's mission statement. One wag chimed in with "Pointless solutions for a market that isn't even there." No comment.
‹ 26.1.01
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The Bloggies vs. The Anti-Bloggies ... let the fun begin!
‹ 26.1.01
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Net jargon talking quiz from the Guardian: more entertaining for it's bitchy queen voice-over than anything else! (especially option two on question one).
‹ 25.1.01
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Atomz (the free search people) launch Atomz Publish ... a potential rival for the forthcoming Blogger Pro?
‹ 25.1.01
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Fun to tinker with ... Word Perhect: "Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools."
‹ 25.1.01
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And you thought Silly Putty was only for playing with? Oh no, my child. It's uses are far greater than that ...
‹ 25.1.01
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Posted: my first story to Strangely Familiar ... "Train Boy Meets Train Girl".
‹ 24.1.01
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Overdue thanks to Caroline, Danny and Iain for their congratulatory anniversary e-mail wishes, and to everyone else who lifted a glass to brainsluice ... I really appreciate the support!
‹ 24.1.01
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Proving that the world just doesn't get any smaller, Meg launches the oxymoronic strangelyfamiliar.org: "stories of random encounters from everyday life". Contribute well, contribute often.
‹ 24.1.01
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Miss Mary's Emporium of the Quaint and Curious.
‹ 24.1.01
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Follow the global adventures of the Netjetters, three travellers (18, 29, 51) following separate paths around the planet and actively seeking your help in doing so: "You can't evict them, but you could change their lives."
‹ 24.1.01
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BTA Moviemap: Find out exactly where your favourite British films were made.
‹ 24.1.01
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Another enjoyable evening spent last night in the company of friends: a fish and chip dinner (surprisingly good) at The Puzzle in Acton followed by a rousing game of Scrabble (which I haven't played for years, given the game's tendency to generally cause apocalyptic rows in our family). I thought I had the bloody thing won near the end too with D-A-Z-E for a double word score, but was pipped at the post by a triple word score A-X-E. Curses. The other two didn't accept "I-C-I-G-A-R: A flourescent tobacco product produced by Apple Computer Inc" as a valid word either. Foiled again!
‹ 24.1.01
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Disclaimer: As much as I would like to have sex with Meg, my talents unfortunately lie in other areas ;)
‹ 23.1.01
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Where would this little weblog be without its weekly quota of Anne Robinson stories? (don't answer that). To wit: a brief biography of the lady herself (who would've guessed she's the former alcoholic daughter of the city's biggest wholesale poultry baroness?), her product-moving catchphrase, and the story of a contestant who was "[a]mazed when Anne Robinson told him he was the most stupid person she had ever met before he had answered a single question." There ... I think that'll do for this week.
‹ 23.1.01
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Okay, so this has been floating around zeitgeisty circles for ages but it still hasn't lost any of its incorrect charm: Tourette Syndrome Barbie (choice "Exorcist" quotes included).
‹ 23.1.01
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Re-design round-up: Matt says he's struck a snag, but the new Interconnected skin ("Forest") is lovely ... all wintery and evocative.
‹ 23.1.01
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Speaking of clubbing, caught on cam at ravingmad, my friend Linda, auditioning for the next Extra chewing-gum commercial. Shanksh Lizsh!
‹ 23.1.01
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An alternately exhausting and relaxing weekend: Friday saw dinner at Satsuma (for the second time that week!) followed by the mixed-up mash-up that is "There" at Heaven. The Japanese tourist quotient is always very high there which makes for an interesting atmosphere - the Heaven people must market it as the London Disneyland of clubbing or some such. The Fevah crew always ensure a high Antipodean turn-out and there's plenty of "family" there as well to spice up the blend. All in all, a great night out ... topped off by emerging into snow at 3:30am!
‹ 23.1.01
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Think you'll have a hang-over at some point over the weekend? Have a look at how bad it might be.
‹ 20.1.01
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A trip down crack-lined memory lane with a "memory back catalogue of 70s and 80s New Zealand TV advertisements jingles, slogans, etc".
‹ 20.1.01
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Welcome to the world of Lego Porn ... minifigs in the throes of passion (or something like that).
[via Salon's The In Box]
‹ 20.1.01
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Last night's entertaiment was Sid's ... the return match (first time round). Only £2 to get in, cheap drinks, bouncing around like a maniac and bumping into a favourite mad Aussie lass a made for an entertaining evening indeed.
‹ 20.1.01
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Weblog first anniversary!
Yes kids, the cortex/brainsluice hybrid has been officially running for one year now: time flies when you're having fun, eh? (read the first post). Any and all congratulatory e-mail and/or gifty type things will be gratefully received! ;)
‹ 20.1.01
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From the front cover of an invitation to a wedding in India (just received), a wonderfully stylised Ganesh, the Hundu god of auspicious beginnings. I've never really wanted a tattoo before but this would be pretty cool as one. As an aside, is it moral/wrong to appropriate elements of other cultures when you have no real understanding of the culture itself (cf. Robbie Williams' tattoo, Madonna's oeuvre, those Reef haka ads) or does it depend on circumstances/intent? Any thoughts?.
‹ 19.1.01
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Shll I cmpr thee 2 a smmrs dy? Finns to send poems by text message.
‹ 19.1.01
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Okay, straw poll time: name those men! [warning: genital action] Robyn dares not hazard a guess, while Fraser believes they're David Blaine, Leonardo Di Caprio and Tobey McGuire respectively. I'd say yes on the first two, not sure on that third one. A very bizarre forward-slash unsettling picture - keep 'em coming Rob!
‹ 19.1.01
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Another successful blogmeet was held last night in fancy old London town: top notch Japanese nosh at Satsuma with Tom, Matt and Darren before ending up upstairs at the nearby Rat and Parrot for alcohol-fuelled discussions and merriment. Meg's ever faithful Kodak DC280 chronicled the event and managed to snap me in flagrante cigaretto. As she said, my mother would be so proud!
‹ 18.1.01
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ASA clears Queercompany.com poster:
"The Queercompany poster received 50 complaints from members of the public, although the ASA said in its ruling that 'it was clear that many of the complainants had not seen the poster'."Ya gotta laugh, I mean really.
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Alliances like this make me feel kind of queasy (and no, it's not just the food). For the love of God, think of the children!
‹ 17.1.01
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Forget those cutesy storTroopers ... they're so five minutes ago ;) Why not Ape-licate yourself instead?
‹ 17.1.01
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I must confess to being a bad NZ film watcher ... last night was the first time I'd seen Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures". The verdict? A bewitching little piece of film-making: Melanie Lynskey as Pauline did a great line in scowling and Kate Winslet made a good debut (although it was a bit of a hamfest). Christchurch looked suitably bucolic (as it should for the 1950s), and it was nice to see some of Jackson's splattergore past appearing throughout. It's all the more shocking for being true (reports of the era; lesbian elements).
‹ 16.1.01
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A spot of pride-swallowing: I've managed to avoid the infamous Shepherd's Bush Walkabout Inn for the whole nine-plus months I've been in London, but that changed on Saturday. As spotted in local Antipodean rag TNT, said establishment was having "The Famous Invercargill Reunion" that afternoon so trot along I did, with several other Invercargillites in tow. While hometown residents were surprisingly thin on the ground, a few familiar faces and blasts-from-the-past made for some entertaining banter and the 2-4-1 Steinlager more than helped the conversation flow.
Entertainment for the evening consisted of a trip to see Supergirly who mercilessly destroyed the "work" of Christina Agriculture, Britney, x number of boy bands, and topped it all off with the charity rendition of "Perfect Day" (getting all the voices (especially Heather Small's) down pat). It was good to see the crowd stop taking themselves so seriously and have a laugh for once! The early hours of the morning saw a run-in with one of Her Majesty's Immigration officers, but that's a story for another time ...
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Anthropologist claims "There are still Neanderthals today": I know ... I've met some of them.
‹ 13.1.01
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Rebrand, rebrand! By unanimous vote, brainsluice as been rebranded amišh. Can you guess the constituent adjectives?
‹ 13.1.01
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The ad campaign for the new Honda Civic has a refreshingly non-car-ad feel about it. The ads themselves are pretty funny too!
‹ 13.1.01
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Calm yourself.
‹ 13.1.01
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Had a lovely evening last night in the company of friends - the beer, conversation and cringe-worthy jokes flowed freely, as did the geek-speak and TMI revelations. Muchus funnus.
‹ 13.1.01
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You ... will ... conform: a departmental e-mail arrived this morning regarding a 'recommended e-mail signature sign-off' - "For a consistent external signature, follow the link below for the recommended layout." I don't think so.
‹ 12.1.01
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"MYST III: Exile" looks gorgeous, as is to be expected ... can't wait to lose myself again.
‹ 12.1.01
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Dave's-made-up-word for the day: "sporn". Ever been to a "sporn" site? I thought thedevilmademedoit.com would be a good URL (I've no idea what for) but it turns out it's been taken. By a porn site. By a porn site that spawns a thousand evil child sites like some malevolent Triffid on amphetamines. Ergo, porn + spawn = sporn. You know it makes sense.
‹ 12.1.01
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Iain has just made my nightmares a reality: to the left is the dominatrix Anne Robinson as envisaged in the post below, but in a storTrooper stylee <shudder> ... cheers Iain!
‹ 12.1.01
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NBC picks up "The Weakest Link": top quote = "One exec compared the host's role to that of a dominatrix, though the host won't actually be one." Now that would be interesting ... picture it now ... Anne Robinson, in leather catsuit ... "You are the weakest link, goodbye!" <whip crack>
‹ 12.1.01
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Meow! Back in the knife drawer, Miss Sharp.
‹ 12.1.01
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Played catch-up last night with a few mates, and assisted in the drowning of a few sorrows, at On Anon. As I'm sure I've mentioned before, their happy hour(s) is scarily good: I was doing quite well on two Long Island Iced Teas and a bottle of pinot grigio thank you very much and the total cost was just over £12. 'Rah!
‹ 11.1.01
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Jen and the team at Stor have come up with a real pearler: storTroopers! To the left is me, in under 1K: check out some more storTrooped kids here ... they're definitely onto something with this!
‹ 11.1.01
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Flamboyant Italian countess vanishes mysteriously: this is by far the best headline I've seen in a long time. I think the world needs more flamboyant Italian countesses, don't you?
‹ 11.1.01
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How well do you know Jack Schitt? ... school-yard humour at its finest.
‹ 11.1.01
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She'll be back ... but what's up with that saucy pout? <shudder>
‹ 11.1.01
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Yes kids, you too can speak like a French Deconstructionist. Much fun for weddings, parties, barmitzvahs ...
‹ 11.1.01
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As a spate of redesigns sweep the nation, Mo looks good going from dot to dot. Catherine tweaks and the result is smooth, as always!
‹ 11.1.01
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From one solar body to another, some amazing pictures of the sun.
‹ 10.1.01
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Pics of last night's total lunar eclipse from around Europe: I kept popping out for a check every now and then while cooking penne cabonara for dinner. It wasn't as spectacular as I thought it might have been, but for a few minutes, it looked as though we had another planet in orbit. Cool.
‹ 10.1.01
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The "safety first" pop-up (click on the header mini pics) has been reactivated. Just thought you'd like to know that.
‹ 10.1.01
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Ladies ... knit your own bikini! You'll be the hit on the beaches of Ibiza this summer, I guarantee it.
‹ 10.1.01
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If you had the chance, which one of TV's "The Golden Girls" would you kill? The answer is quite obvious for the punter who submitted the following:
"I Would Kill ... Dorothy Zbornak!Share your own private televisual revenge fantasies with the world at WWYK?
Dorothy, whilst striding mannishly through Central Park one morning to get her daily helping of NADS HAIR REMOVER from the drugstore ... gets attacked by a plague of 'Killer Beas' ... who fly down her throat, and sting her to death from the inside. Unfortunately for her ... help arrives too late in the form of Doogie Howser, MD ... who, upon seeing his patient ... decides to let her die in the interests of ensuring there is not a glut on the market of sideshow freaks (hairy women are everywhere these days!) The remaining 3 Golden Girls enjoy the fact that the toilet lid is finally DOWN...!!! ;)"
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Simian references in "The Simpsons". Purple monkey dishwasher.
‹ 10.1.01
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Need a corporate mission statement in a hurry? Then try this Mission Statement Generator ... I swear I've seen some of those exact results on BT literature before.
‹ 10.1.01
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Check your knowledge of signs with a quick ten-question quiz: I scored a miserable five but at least the options were entertaining.
‹ 10.1.01
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This weekend just past, Luke got ripped off and that sucks big time. Let's restore his faith in humanity.
‹ 9.1.01
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Perusing JJ72's first effort at the moment - not too bad, in a teen angsty kinda way. As Sara Cox said this morning: "JJ72, stop making all that pop music racket upstairs in your bedroom and come down here this minute ... your tea's getting cold!"
‹ 9.1.01
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Speaking of nice (re)design, Katy gives us a bit of lip.
‹ 9.1.01
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Nifty/groovy/pointy left-hand navigation on the Xbox site.
‹ 9.1.01
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I'd forgotten how good some of the old 0sil8 episodes were, so, for your entertainment pleasure, I present the classic photo-essay that is "The Great Mother's Day Car-Be-Que of 1999".
‹ 9.1.01
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F-U-C-K-Y-O-U-D-E-S-M-O-N-D.
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The weekend in hypertext ... is no more. Iain (nice redesign by the way!) says he'll miss it, but it's done it's dash I think (i.e. now that the festive madness has passed, I can start writing decently about weekend happenings again!).
I succeed to catch up on post-turn-of-the-millennium hi-jinks with friends and family back home which was nice. I'm jealous of them enjoying the sunshine (he types as a solitary ray enters the office) too.
Saturday afternoon was fun: a chatty late Thai lunch with Meg and Tom and then to the beautiful, poetic and mildly baffling "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Great film, great company.
‹ 9.1.01
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It's official: Liam Gallagher more hated than Saddam Hussein. I could've told you that.
‹ 6.1.01
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Authentic Thai meal (pot noodle)? £4.50. Authentic organic Mexican Veggie burger (8 Linda McCartney Spicy Beanburgers, 99p from Tesco)? £8.20. Plate of chips? £6.40. Meg's guide to re-creating the Glastonbury experience? Priceless.
‹ 6.1.01
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New Zealand porn? Nah, just another mindless teen zine.
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MTV, I salute you.
‹ 6.1.01
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This one does the e-mail rounds every now and then but it's still prety funny: The Best of the Worst Country-Western Song Titles. Classics include, "I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy", "If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You" and "Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye".
‹ 6.1.01
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I forgot to mention the Guinness Storehouse the other day when I was talking about Dublin: both utterly fascinating and wonderfully designed. If you're thinking of a trip Dublin, put it high on the list of stuff to do.
‹ 5.1.01
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How shallow we've become.
‹ 5.1.01
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Spotted in Soho last night: one blogger + chums, seat-grooving to Sheena Easton. Who was that masked man? Answers on the back of a postcard please!
‹ 5.1.01
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Dear Friend,I don't think so.
Have you ever dreamed of traveling in time? Now you can experience what you have only dreamed of. With the Hyper Dimensional Resonator you can travel into the past or explore the future. The world will be at your beck and call and you will have all the time in the world to explore it ... [snip]
Sincerely,
Steven Gibbs.
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What was the most popular search term of 2000? Why it's "Britney Spears" of course, everyone's favourite teen queen scream sensation . Strangely enough, "orange PVC catsuit" didn't appear on the list.
‹ 4.1.01
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Excerpt from an e-mail which arrived this morning from a mad Aussie former colleague:
"We're staying with Scott's parents in this really small town outside of Vancouver. I think I already have a bit of a reputation here, although I thought I was being pretty tame. I think the nicest I've heard on the grapevine so far is, "Have you seen scott's new girlfriend? She's really ... fiesty". Actually that's not too bad as when I met everyone I was blind drunk, I puked in the bathroom and then called his best friends fiancée a fat slag (not to her face of course but you know how word gets around in a small town), then I got even drunker and ended up trying to shave off a passed-out guys eyebrows. So I'm doing quite well for 10 days work. Wait until I show them my tits!"I miss her.
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Should ginger corduroy suit-wearers be exiled to far-flung desert islands for inflicting their warped fashion sense upon unsuspecting commuters? Yes. Remember kids, "head-to-toe ... just won't go".
‹ 4.1.01
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Sooperficial tracks the best sound-bites from the world of blogging: a nifty little idea.
[via wherever you are]
‹ 4.1.01
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And in other weblog news, Vaughan redesigns wherever you are ... and a nice job he made of it too!
‹ 4.1.01
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Three more sites for your reading pleasure (and my burgeoning cohorts list): 8letters, Orbyn and Sc@ll-o-blog ... a cheeky set of weblogs the lot of them (and again, well overdue for addition!).
‹ 4.1.01
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A nice critique of product placement in films from the ever dependable Feed:
"This is not to say that product placement is nefarious by definition; "Cast Away's" second-most visible brand is a Wilson volleyball which washes ashore and becomes Hanks' constant companion on the island. Wilson provided the production with sixty volleyballs, but was given no clues as to what use they'd be put to. As it turns out, the placement is witty and winning; Hanks dubs the ball "Wilson," gives it a bloody handprint for a face, and sticks some straw in its crown; a rather neutral endorsement, if such a thing is possible. But Wilson's "Business Manager of Volleyballs" (the title deserves a screenplay of its own!) wasn't particularly worried; "I'm not sure how you portray a volleyball badly," he says."True.
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LondonTribe looks like a reasonably informative events guide - one to keep an eye on anyway. Speaking of which, I received the
Dublin Weekend Microguide for Christmas from my partners in crime ... most useful it was too.
‹ 4.1.01
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My beautiful laundrette: Welsh boys go crazy eight bonkers with tumble driers. No lads, you're supposed to put clothes in it, not each other. A sure contender for the Darwin Awards if ever I saw one.
‹ 4.1.01
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Post-millennial angst: Diablo II devotees are aghast after their alter egos are unceremoniously robbed and killed.
‹ 4.1.01
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Happy New Year to one and all! How's the recovery going?
Dublin was fantastic - a diverse little city with a warm friendly feel, some great pubs and clubs to find your groove in and a whole bunch of great friends and acquaintances to share it all with. And I've now taken a liking to Guinness too (who would have thought?). A more indepth report will be forthcoming when I get around to revamping the twoyeartrip project I started a while back. Watch this space.
‹ 3.1.01
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