Today 3.00 GMT: Anti-globalisation protests : Naomi Klein Live Online. Get yourself a comfy seat and a packet of bourbons, as Ms Klein takes on months of media doublespeak. Then go buy her bloody book. If it doesn’t inspire aggression and post-capitalist ire in you then you’re a better person than I want to be.
Yesterday I went to see The Mexican with Meg. But afterwards I didn’t do anything creative at all. In fact I wandered into town, had a brainfart and came home again. My mind operates in prescribed orbits at the moment – and the orbits get faster and smaller. I want my old mind back – larger orbits, slower, more thorough. Peaceful.
As I experience yet another entirely frustrating battle with page rendering on Netscape, I am forced to agree (for a moment at least) with Jakob Nielsen: Frames Suck Most of the Time.
A while ago I was looking for a site that could simulate how sites would look in other browsers. Well thanks to a co-worker at Avondi, I’ve found one. The only problem is you have to pay them up to $120 a year for the privilege. If I had that much spare cash at the moment, however, I’d do it in a heartbeat – I’ve watched it in action, and it’s a sweet piece of online kit. Designing cross-browser and platform is tricky enough if you are using a PC, but when you design on a Mac, something like this would be an absolute life-saver.
As the song says, “Wouldn’t a smarter man, simply walk away?”
Excerpts from ‘My Big Gay Life’ (6): So you’re in a shop and you see a magazine, and on the cover is some guy that you wanted to be involved with. And you say to yourself, Good Christ. And you send them a text message which reads, Good Christ. And you take the magazine into a bar and order a coke. And you sit down and open the magazine. And then you put the coke down, feel slightly weird, leave the bar, get on a tube and go home.
Grant Morrison, personal god of mine, and my first and only hero, is shortly to take over the writing of the world’s biggest selling comic-book, the X-men. For those of you who promise not to think me a completely ridiculous geek, here (along with some discussion) are some scans of the first two pages.
[After Jason] I’ve submitted a word (‘unsightful’) to the pseudodictionary. Have you?
This is possibly the least helpful article on dealing with a gay teenager that I have ever read. And I can only hope and pray that in ten or twenty years time, comments like “In truth, no parent wishes for a gay child. Who would want their son or daughter to follow a lifestyle that invites ridicule, heartache and prevents grandchildren!” will be considered hopelessly backwards and insulting by all reasonable people.