Archives for February 2002
The last time I heard (February 28, 2002) The last time I heard them I was probably about ten, maybe eleven. My dad used to play them in the car. He only had this album, ABBA's greatest hits and The Carpenters. He was not the coolest man in...
If you're bored of an (February 28, 2002) If you're bored of an afternoon and fancy some entertainment, I can more than recommend methylsalicylate. Brooke will help you differentiate your fat mice from your firearms. What more could you ask?...
So Davo sends me an (February 28, 2002) So Davo sends me an article from the BBC about Irritable Male Syndrome which explains how particularly stressful circumstances can make your testosterone drop which could lead to moodiness and foulness. I ask him what he's implying. He replies that...
You have to love Michael (February 28, 2002) You have to love Michael Moore, you really do. I mean he's just so on the money most of the time: MOORE: Yes. I don't -- look, I don't know what the percentage should be, but I certainly believe, and...
Evidence, if evidence were needed, (February 28, 2002) Evidence, if evidence were needed, that Sparky not only appears to have found himself a bloke, but that he also has very fine taste in men. Even if the guy in question does also look like the lead singer of...
It's the fight that would (February 28, 2002) It's the fight that would not die - Penguin Books versus Katie.com - the latter site is still fighting about the book that Penguin published about sexual abuse and harrassment over the internet which decided to name itself after her...
Another day, another review for (February 28, 2002) Another day, another review for the BBC, this time for the film Basquiat: "In Hollywood movies, the lives of the great creative geniuses all follow a pretty similar path. From humble origins our hero will struggle and nearly give up....
An e-mail regarding 8bit at (February 28, 2002) An e-mail regarding 8bit at nerve.com: "I think that 8bit bloke is full of shit. But tell him that if he is ever in need of a woman to bear his children he should give me a call."...
Another fun morning - today's (February 28, 2002) Another fun morning - today's entertainment includes two months notice (along with my flatmates) to vacate my flat, a letter from the bank explaining that I've gone over my overdraft facility and a nice happy bill from Barclaycard....
Impressions of late-night TV: 1) (February 27, 2002) Impressions of late-night TV: 1) three people of very different life positions watch an episode of Sex and the City where four people's very different life positions push barriers between them, 2) George Michael goes Blade-runner as a Sexual Freak...
What's Tom's e-mail address? (February 27, 2002) By the way, just in case you're desperately searching for my e-mail address like the person who keeps writing "Tom has no e-mail address on his page" and "Please Tom put your e-mail address on your page" in the search...
Returned to the 'From You (February 27, 2002) Returned to the 'From You Know Who You Are Department', With Thanks: Say you were at a party with a woman who dislikes you and most of your friends and isn't afraid to say so, and you were chatting to...
Human beings are like Microsoft (February 27, 2002) Human beings are like Microsoft products - cobbled together in a rough evolutionary fashion over many years, prone to collapse, occasional misfunctioning and systematic farting (both actual and metaphorical). If human beings were like Apple products then we'd all be...
Press Release: Armitage Media is (February 27, 2002) Press Release: Armitage Media is proud to announce the release of the first single by the winner of "Blog Idol", the stunning Tom Coates. The double A-side (titled "Anything is possible / When you're A-list") will be released shortly via...
I need advice - if (February 27, 2002) I need advice - if you've ever looked at a personal ad on nerve.com then I need your advice. I need you to go and look at a lame web-blokes personal ad and tell me if it's completely full of...
Guardian Horror... (February 26, 2002) At the beginning of February 2002, The Guardian contacted me about the possibility of an interview. For some ungodly reason the lunatic newspaper had decided that it was thrilled by the idea of listen to me jabber on about any...
On Photoshop 7 and abandoning OS9... (February 26, 2002) I am drooling at the thought of Photoshop 7 because it will be the first version of the software to run natively in OSX - which means I need never ever use OS9 again. Which will be nice....
Hands up who thinks Andrew (February 26, 2002) Hands up who thinks Andrew Sullivan's views on homosexuality are dull, conformist, apologist and retro? That many huh? Ok then. Hands up who cares about Andrew Sullivan's Blogger manifesto? Wow. That few......
Question One: Do sites do (February 26, 2002) Question One: Do sites do features of weblogs because it guarantees those same articles traffic? I'm increasingly thinking that this is the case - webloggers love the approval of being mentioned in a paper - it makes us feel important...
I have a bloody interview. (February 26, 2002) I have a bloody interview. I'm not occupationally insane after all. I have been assessed and found stage-one (of three) employable. Everything else is bonus from now on - I always assumed that it was just getting me in a...
Even the BBC loves The Strokes... (February 26, 2002) Even the BBC loves The Strokes. Where's your stuffy English public service broad-caster now then? Eh?...
I got home last night (February 26, 2002) I got home last night around 1am, after an accidental curry and caipirinha and slumped immediately into a couple of episodes of Buffy and Farscape. I'm not going to defend my choice of late-night TV - I'm just telling it...
Today's crisis of indecision regards (February 26, 2002) Today's crisis of indecision regards the BBC. I was supposed to hear from them about this first interview yesterday. But I have not. Does this mean that I can expect a letter from them through the post in a few...
I wonder how many people (February 25, 2002) I wonder how many people actually don't realise what's behind this card trick. It's obvious right? Addendum For those who have not as yet figured out the trick - none of the second set of cards were in the first...
To a user of Internet (February 25, 2002) To a user of Internet Explorer on Mac OSX, the "What Sex Toy Are You?" quiz is a beautiful set of constellations. Oooooooh. Pretty.......
Google of the future? "I (February 25, 2002) Google of the future? "I am Google! I find many good things. I find that pair of underwear with the little dice printed all over them. And I watch the tape of you with the life-sized Stallman puppet. These are...
So strictly speaking, it's now (February 25, 2002) So strictly speaking, it's now the day when I found out if I'm through to the first interviews for a job at the BBC. We were supposed to find out on Friday, but for various reasons they weren't able to...
Get it while it's fresh (February 24, 2002) Get it while it's fresh - or more to the point, get it before it's ripped from the internet's bleeding womb by the stainless steel tongs of threatened legal-action... Because Anne Widdecombe is not going to be thrilled about this...
Proposal for a grant? "Dear (February 24, 2002) Proposal for a grant? "Dear Dean of Stuff, I work at your University and I'd really like to do a study of the social networks in the Marvel comic book universe. I hope you will understand how important and useful...
An otherwise wonderfully fun evening (February 24, 2002) An otherwise wonderfully fun evening celebrating Luke's birthday ruined at the last minute by the discovery that I've lost my uninsured mobile phone, resulting in me becoming suddenly terrified about the potential cost of replacement....
Could this be the best (February 23, 2002) Could this be the best magazine cover of all time? Or is it simply the best thing of all time? Or is it kinda dumb? Der Spiegel...
Happy birthday to ickle.org. Now (February 22, 2002) Happy birthday to ickle.org. Now you are one, what will you do now? Will you grow, oh ickle.org? When you are twenty, will you be angry that you can't be called tall.org? Will you be laughed at down the pub....
I don't know where he (February 22, 2002) I don't know where he got the information from, but there's a fascinating piece of writing about being born from exploding stars over at barbelith at the moment. It's a lovely, wonderful and transformative idea - it's also a slightly...
I don't think Cal is (February 22, 2002) I don't think Cal is talking to me at the moment....
I haven't said anything on (February 22, 2002) I haven't said anything on plasticbag.org because I've been convinced that it would add extra pressure on me and that I'd buckle under it - but I seem to have given up smoking. It's been almost two weeks now without...
I don't know if you're (February 21, 2002) I don't know if you're aware of this fact - but I'm actually going to be thirty years old in roughly four months and twenty-eight days. I only mention this fact now, because clearly thirty is a big milestone and...
Ok, so tomorrow afternoon I (February 21, 2002) Ok, so tomorrow afternoon I should hear whether I got through the whole Occupational Psychologists' testing - first stage of my interview process for the BBC job that I would cheerfully kill for. I'm not feeling very positive about it...
At the time of writing, (February 21, 2002) At the time of writing, the price of buying someone to come and kick your own ass was a mere $1.75. I wonder if it's more if you want them to beat up other people......
Firda has created the CSS (February 21, 2002) Firda has created the CSS Colouring book featuring several table-less CSS designs for weblogs which you can run off with and adapt to your own sick needs. Firda rules....
A rude cartoon found via (February 21, 2002) A rude cartoon found via cal. Note that I tried for a while to find a picture of 'Viacal' - the fizzy limescale remover - on the interhighweb. But without any success. Leaving me to think that the world is...
So last night I went (February 21, 2002) So last night I went to eat Ethiopian food in a restaurant called Merkato in Islington with the team of people with whom I freelance. We roamed full and free from the menu, as Danny and Polly have both visited...
It would be excessively harsh (February 21, 2002) It would be excessively harsh to say that I hated Occupational Psychologists. But it would not be excessively harsh to say that I don't enjoy being tested by them. Let's leave it at that......
Today is Online Community News (February 20, 2002) Today is Online Community News day at plasticbag towers. Regular updates through next couple of hours: StreamingMediaWorld.com More than you could ever legitimately need to know about streaming video and audio media. CNN Community no more Looks like it's been...
There's a book called Running (February 19, 2002) There's a book called Running Weblogs with Slash. For a little while this confused me. Why would anyone need a book for that? But then - of course, revelation - and I realised that you'd probably need a guidebook as...
The worst thing about interviews (February 19, 2002) The worst thing about interviews is how nervous I get and how when I get nervous I fart. Really loudly. Luckily I don't get nervous very often. Or more to the point, perhaps, luckily I don't go outside very much...
Help me fix my bloody permalinks... (February 19, 2002) Go forth my minions! Perhaps you could resolve the biggest gripe that people have about the new plasticbag.org design - the lack of attractive looking permalinks. The problem is code-related - I have always scrupulously placed paragraph tags around each...
Just as everyone in the (February 19, 2002) Just as everyone in the western world has finally succumbed and bought a player - be warned: DVDs are obselete....
Move along, nothing to see (February 19, 2002) Move along, nothing to see here: I've got a job interview tomorrow and I'm planning to spend much of the day getting myself up to speed with everything on the internet I think I need to know about. And so...
In honour of Don Cheadle's (February 18, 2002) In honour of Don Cheadle's "Worst Cockney Accent Ever", I hereby present the World's Worst Cockney Website Translator Ever, which seems to do nothing but add the word "awright?" every two sentences. Appalling. As my flatmate says - "My poor...
An afternoon's MP3 playlist: Michael (February 18, 2002) An afternoon's MP3 playlist: Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", B*Witched - "Hey Mickey", Jamiroquai - "Deeper Underground", Britney Spears - "Oops! I did it again", David Bowie - "Boys Keep Swinging", Grace Jones - "Pull Up...
More evidence, if evidence were (February 18, 2002) More evidence, if evidence were needed that Metafilter's Matt Haughey is a god among men....
God as plot device... (February 18, 2002) One of the more interesting quizzes I've taken recently examines the logical consistency of one's beliefs about god. I'm a staunch atheist, and have been for over fifteen years now. My ideas consolidated around the time I was Christened in...
On Thursday night I went (February 16, 2002) On Thursday night I went to see Ocean's Eleven. The film is amazing, Don Cheadle's accent is offensively bad. The whole cinema groaned whenever he came on. First "The Limey" and now this... What did England ever do to Steven...
A brief history of the Western World... (February 16, 2002) One day Mesopotamia is assembled out of bits of twig and mud. It is one of the first places we see the 'Indo-European' language group that will split off into India and Europe forming the basis of most Western languages....
I just did a quiz (February 15, 2002) I just did a quiz at the Guardian designed to figure out how much money you should be earning - it works it out by assessing your IQ. At the end of the test the quiz asked me what I...
It's Valentines Day - are (February 14, 2002) It's Valentines Day - are you lost and lonely? Well then it's a terrible shame that I didn't do this earlier. Because I'm considering selling a date with myself over the net on ebay. Would you like to buy me...
Look at my graph! It's (February 14, 2002) Look at my graph! It's a graph about the Oscars! It's a graph with no point. All of these links go through to the same graph!...
Twenty years of Oscar nominees... (February 14, 2002) You start by trawling IMDB for the Oscar nominees for "Best Picture" over the last twenty years. Then you add together their user ratings and plot it on a graph. Hey presto - an instant pseudo-scientific discussion piece...
Something wonderful from ObscureStore today: (February 14, 2002) Something wonderful from ObscureStore today: Thomas Ray Mitchell suffers from several psychiatric conditions that include a violent reaction to the words "New Jersey," "Wisconsin," "Snickers" and "Mars," said his attorney, Maria Luisa Mercado. In a statement to police after the...
Damn you Meg and damn (February 14, 2002) Damn you Meg and damn you Guardian! I didn't want to know that I'm part of the Dido demographic. I have thirteen of the albums listed - more if you include MP3s. I feel hearily disgusted with myself and must...
When you are ready to (February 14, 2002) When you are ready to have a serious conversation about Green Lantern you have my e-mail address - and if you don't, it's tom%40plasticbag.org. Davo sent me this particular parody, mocking the adult comic book fan, and I have to...
I don't know how accurate (February 14, 2002) I don't know how accurate or true any of this is. I wish I knew. I wish I knew who to trust to tell me the truth about such matters. I think we all wish we knew who to trust...
How unbelievably cool does this (February 14, 2002) How unbelievably cool does this magazine look? This is post a its first redesign in eighty years, and it still has a wonderful retro-future design feel to it. It feels more like a periodical of sci-fi short-stories or something. I'm...
So the Oscar nominations have (February 13, 2002) So the Oscar nominations have been announced. I've been holding back from commenting on them until I've had a chance to let my impressions settle a little. And it has to be said that it's a pretty motley selection of...
One of my flatmates has (February 13, 2002) One of my flatmates has asked whether Riaz, a friend of hers from America, can stay in our flat for a few days at the end of the month and bring a friend. Unfortunately, the last time Riaz came to...
Dancing iMac. Yeah, yeah, yeah! (February 13, 2002) Dancing iMac. Yeah, yeah, yeah! Dancing iMac. Yeah, yeah, yeah! I was in Central London yesterday and I stumbled upon one of the new iMacs in a shop on Tottenham Court Road. As usual, it was slightly bigger than I...
Glorious absurd questions for Ivan Massow... (February 13, 2002) Do you have the energy to talk to Ivan Massow live on guardian.co.uk this afternoon at 2pm? Some of the questions posted so far are gloriously absurd. One of my favourites reads: "Do you hold with these new-fangled modern paraffin...
Is this why I'm grumpy (February 12, 2002) Is this why I'm grumpy so often? Excellent. Now all I need to do is figure out why my jaw hurts all the time at the moment....
Introducing BunnyCorp... (February 12, 2002) She's finally done it. The ginge from the fringe, the neater B3ta feature! The sap from emap is back! And she presents BunnyCorp! Featuring Deep-fried Bunny! The Company History! And you can end it with tiny pixel pictures of me,...
BBC recruitment horror... (February 12, 2002) I've been invited to come for one of four half-day assessments at the BBC, to be followed by a first interview, to be followed in turn by a second interview, all for a job which would require me to be...
Separated at birth? (February 12, 2002) Ok, so now five separate people have said that I look like Will from Pop Idol. Most of them have been kind enough to leave out the "older lardier version of...", although it's been implied....
Good threads on Barbelith... (February 11, 2002) One of Barbelith's best threads for ages is getting more and more involving - How are you gay?...
Valentines Evil Approaches... (February 11, 2002) That dark and evil day is approaching when nauseating couples drench the world in golden syrup and sashay around showing off their love for one another as if they had licence not to get punched. Which they don't. Thankfully, we...
Big on Musical Theatre... (February 11, 2002) You can't listen to Davo, he comes from a dimension that's big on musical theatre....
Untouched, from the Guardian: "Some (February 11, 2002) Untouched, from the Guardian: "Some months after they were married in 1933, Clare Smith's husband Jack came home from work and told her that he now knew how 'it' was done. They had been talking about it at work, but...
The Anti-Bloggies have been announced (February 11, 2002) The Anti-Bloggies have been announced and I didn't win anything. Last year I won, "Best Use of a Blog for Personal Benefit". And in related weblogging news, read the Blogger's manifesto....
It's time for a purge (February 10, 2002) It's time for a purge of the links-bin: Helping Buffy to slay her Financial Demons "Buffy Summers has made a lot of mistakes in her short life -- she lost her virginity to a vampire, for Pete's sake! -- and...
The beautiful Baker boy! (February 10, 2002) The uncomfortably gorgeous Paul Baker finally confesses his crushes: "Mr Clooney, Mr L. Perry, Mr Fraser, Mr Beltran, and (even worse than Steve Guttenberg) Mr Clinton. I also have a bit of a thing for Gina Gershon. Don't ask me...
My teenage dreams have finally (February 10, 2002) My teenage dreams have finally come true - how long I have waited for Steve Guttenberg to have a site on the web - and more importantly to have a whole gallery of pictures of him in various stages of...
There are two posts over (February 10, 2002) There are two posts over at overstated.net which should be fascinating to anyone interested in the social dynamics and interactions of weblogs and webloggers. First there's a list of the web's most effective weblog meme spreaders, and then a list...
So Will Young has won (February 10, 2002) So Will Young has won Pop Idol. I have to confess that I'm surprised. Delighted but surprised. He's certainly the most likely to be the long-term prospect, he's clearly talented and he's obviously intelligent. But did anyone really expect the...
From Salon - and meeting (February 9, 2002) From Salon - and meeting a sudden spontaneous need on a Saturday afternoon: Everything you wanted about Memento....
Matt Haughey tries to eat eight Saltines... (February 9, 2002) Noted adult and husband Matt Haughey and a cadre of friends and co-workers attempt to eat more than eight Saltines in a minute....
I'm still waiting to get (February 9, 2002) I'm still waiting to get my rejection letter from the BBC for a position as 'Community Producer' that I applied for a couple of weeks ago. The BBC is clearly an organisation that is designed purely to attempt to break...
My crushes of the day (February 8, 2002) My crushes of the day are actor Jesse Bradford and punk-rock poof Stephen Trask. The Jesse Bradford pic comes directly from Ultrasparky's personal stash of half-naked celebrity pictures. Let's all give Ultrasparky a warm hand....
The top 25 web personalities (February 8, 2002) The top 25 web personalities includes some well-known web figures, some tremendous surprises and a good proportion of good sites to bad....
While watching The Fluffer at (February 8, 2002) While watching The Fluffer at the cinema, Davo and I were struck by some remarkable similarities between the names of some of the characters and the name of Ralph McGinnis, the young man who maintains Lacking in Emotional Circumstances, visited...
A comment on penises... (February 8, 2002) As a female friend once said to me about penises, "It's like carrying a remote control with you all the time on the off-chance that you might want to watch some television." [inspired by Bart]...
Can someone please explain to (February 8, 2002) Can someone please explain to me why Interconnected isn't read by everyone interested in the potential of online technology and interfaces? It should be. It really should....
The Anne Robinson of the (February 7, 2002) The Anne Robinson of the weblogging world, David Pannett, blows the lid on Genie's appalling customer service. Next week on Watchdog - Pop Tarts that kill....
It may be an amusing (February 6, 2002) It may be an amusing cartoon that displays a son's reaction to his father's record collection, but perhaps more worrying is that the clearly teenage boy has never entered his father's private 'back room' before. What sick activities go on...
On being a multi-millionaire... (February 6, 2002) As of this morning, I'm worth $45,262,148.52 on the Hollywood Stock Exchange. How much are you worth? Not that I'm competitive or anything....
Another message from my little (February 6, 2002) Another message from my little brother: I hear from mum that you had to have some teeth out a few days ago and that it really hurt. I have been told to be simpathetic but I am not sure how...
Ethical dilemma of the day: (February 6, 2002) Ethical dilemma of the day: Compare and contrast kottke.org with obscurestore.com. Do they look similar? Yes. Very. Is this a problem? No - they both work very well and, moreover, were both designed by Jason Kottke anyway. I have been...
I've said it before, and (February 5, 2002) I've said it before, and I've said it again - quality is politically unjustifiable. A lack of talent is the only egalitarian way to be - and I have it in spades. So let's celebrate not the artistically great, but...
Are you nuts? I know, (February 5, 2002) Are you nuts? I know, I know... It's so difficult to tell nowadays. I wish I could provide you with an adequate test online to answer that age-old question, but instead I'm going to present you with some Rohrschach tests,...
Giving Mr Massow a good firm thump... (February 5, 2002) Closer to home, and following the recent spate of publicity that this plasticbag has been getting, Davo has suggested that maybe this quote from Ian shouldn't just be about Mr Massow after all: "It's genuinely difficult to decide whether he's...
On the removal of a wisdom tooth... (February 4, 2002) So I end today with one less tooth than I started it with. That's right - the axis of evil that has been building within my mouth-mountain has finally been excised by the pure democratic might of Mr Moselhi -...
Having trouble with Blogger Pro? (February 4, 2002) Having trouble with Blogger Pro? Then you need to look at profaq.blogspot.com....
I've just spent a good (February 4, 2002) I've just spent a good half-hour wandering around the site of a gay guy who e-mailed me. I've read about his recent attack, and his nerves about his HIV testing. Although I have to confess that I skimmed through his...
On Iansie's brief history of Mr Massow... (February 4, 2002) It's nice to have Mr Massow to talk about again - plasticbag.org just doesn't feel the same without his regular appearances. It doesn't look like I'm going to be able to make the ICA love-in this evening, which is a...
And the media blitz continues (February 4, 2002) And the media blitz continues with an article featuring myself, her from not so soft and that Dan Hon fella over at the BBC: I blog, therefore I am....
It's probably not a great (February 4, 2002) It's probably not a great sign of general 'having-a-life-ness' when you're sat in front of computer at half-past midnight, hear the 'ping' of new e-mail and start chanting under your breath, "Please be interesting, please be interesting, please be interesting,...
A late night ungodly and (February 3, 2002) A late night ungodly and foul mood after eight hours of work on a Sunday evening with two or three more to go, summed up by a Nick Cave song featuring these lyrics: Since I was no bigger than a...
So it looks like my (February 3, 2002) So it looks like my landlord isn't looking to extend our lease after the end of April, which essentially means that I'm going to have to find a new flat to live in around that time - and probably new...
On the grind... (February 3, 2002) Today I will be mostly grinding away at a tedious site build that I've built about a thousand times before and which I'm now getting thoroughly sick of. But I need the money....
Mr Massow vs. the ICA... (February 3, 2002) Do you need more clarification on the whole Mr Massow vs the ICA debate? The Schmews has all the answers: "Tracey Emin today blasted comments by Ivan Massow, head of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, who said that most conceptual...
Thatcher's head... (February 3, 2002) Do you have a spare space on your mantlepiece that can support an eight-foot tall, 1.8 tonne marble statue of Margaret Thatcher? If you are inclined to house the Iron Lady's monstrous visage, then raise your hand now....
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Free the Mayfair One... (February 2, 2002) Word on the street is that there will be a "Free The Mayfair One" demonstration outside the ICA on Monday at 6pm. It looks like Mr Massow may be being asked to step down as the Chairman of the ICA...
What comes after Farscape? (February 2, 2002) I've recently been exorcising the lamoid sci-fi geek within me with a regular dose of Farscape, but now the series is over leaving me with no quality space-trash to glue myself to except for ancient re-runs of Star Trek featuring...
404 to Wayback? (February 2, 2002) Every link every posted to iamcal.com is here. You know what would be useful? A kind of bridge site between a link and its destination that redirected you to the most recent archive on the Wayback Machine if a request...
Where are the permalinks? (February 2, 2002) A quick answer to a regular question (most recently posed here) - permalinks on plasticbag.org have been removed temporarily while I try and figure out the best way to implement them within the constraints of the new design without resorting...
The new craze in text-ads... (February 2, 2002) Everyone is doing it - the new advertising craze on the internet is the simple text ad [article]. The idea of non-irritating, low-bandwidth, low-cost advertising is clearly very appealing to web-regulars, but whether or not it will actually prove to...
The last 48-hours has seen (February 2, 2002) The last 48-hours has seen the most extraordinary weather battering the UK. Even safe in Maida Vale, the windows have been rattling and clunking around in the frames. I've made it a mission to go out as little as possible....
The best thing about the (February 1, 2002) The best thing about the Anti-Bloggies is the rules....
Must have MP3 of the (February 1, 2002) Must have MP3 of the day is "Jesus was Way Cool" by King Missile: Lyrics:Jesus was way coolEverybody liked JesusEverybody wanted to hang out with himAnything he wanted to do, he did.He turned water into wineAnd if he'd wanted to..He...
Vain attempt to exploit current (February 1, 2002) Vain attempt to exploit current interest in plasticbag.org: Tom is currently looking for permanent employment in the London area, particularly in the editorial and structural development of online publishing ventures and/or online communities. If the nice people from the community...
I've been resisting looking at (February 1, 2002) I've been resisting looking at Something Awful's Children's Books feature for a few days now, but finally succumbed this morning. The first page is fairly amusing, but they rapidly improve. Sick, twisted comedy horror for the B3ta generation. [via Interconnected]...
Seven years after his disappearance, (February 1, 2002) Seven years after his disappearance, the family and friends of Richey Manic refuse to have him declared legally dead....
You know, I'm fairly sure (February 1, 2002) You know, I'm fairly sure that this clipping isn't really from a legitimate newspapter! Still, I'm in full media whore mode at the moment, so I can't go by without linking to it. [pertinent links: acerbia.com, not.so.soft]...
