Archive for January, 2004


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iStockphoto.com should you be in the market for some really bland photography

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Uplifting suicidal japaasci animation via j-blogjam, of course.

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Unison - OSX Usenet reader Hmm, the trade union has rebranded, I thought. Actually, this looks really keen. Currently trying out the trial and it’s impressive.

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Look At Me a collection of found photos

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Bootilicious Haven’t seen one of these misheard lyric flash aimins for a while - this ones a good’un, and he’s only 14. The future is safe.

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Cowuuube! New Veitch animation. Are these wintery days responsible for this sudden burst of madness?

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The 28 Hour Day When I’m not constrined by such societal pressures as working for a living I tend to slip into a 6 day week. Looks like I’m on to something. Or mad.

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Cheap Space Documentary It’s a good week on the b3ta newsletter.

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The Haggis Hurl I particularly like the way they act all ’skittish’.

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Guardian report on del.icio.us Intriguing new bookmark/mini-link/community thangdango I will investigate next week. via LMG.

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Hexxagon - 1992 game recreated in Flash I’d never played this before and it’s actually rather good.

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hugeURL takes a normal URL and makes it HUGE.

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Hamlet - The Text Adventure In a similar vein…

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HHGG text adventure game The original Hitch Hiker’s game, one of the most infuriating experiences of the early computing age, and great for it.

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Fraser’s horse kebab adventure Great ‘weirdest thing that ever happened to me’ blog post.

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Obligatory snow post.

January 28, 2004 Comments (7)

Just a quick note to all the retards on my bus. When it rains heavily all the grit on the roads tends to be washed away. If it then immediately snows and settles and then becomes dark and freezing the roads will tend to be covered in ice. This will cause major traffic problems which is why it took us bloody ages to get home. It also explains why the bus didn’t go through your shitty white-trash estate forcing you to walk all of 15 minutes extra. So don’t go shouting and swearing at the driver you fucking ungrateful shit-stains on the underpants of creation.

In other news, it finally snowed in Birmingham today! Woo!

Search Engine Relationship Chart Who buys what information from who.

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PlasticTom on DRM music formats Coatsy sumarises the current debate and concludes we should have as many different formats as possible. Personally I’m not going to buy any DRM files full stop.

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85 Tijuana Bibles Goldmine for early comics porn!

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A survey…

January 27, 2004 Comments (23)

I’m currently working at that moon base between Birmingham and Coventry known as the NEC setting up a stand for some Spring Fair or other. Rather that write about it now I’m making notes on my long bus journey using the handheld to be written up when it’s all over. It’s proving quite a surreal one this time - hope I’ll be able to do it justice.

In the meanwhile, a user survey, if you please, for regular readers of this weblog:

1) Do you read weblogs using an RSS reader? If yes, any comments on how this blog is displayed? If no, have you got a clue what I’m asking? Would you like to know more?

2) Do you regularly read my Link Farm? If so, do you read it on the sidebar of the main blog page, on it’s own page, or via the RSS feed?

Dave Egger’s novel-in-progress serialized on Salon. and I haven’t read his first one yet, though AHWOSG was tops.

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Favicon creation tutorial So short! So simple!

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DRM-restricted music file formats are the new Betamax A while back I said I’d explain why Apple’s ACC music format was a bad idea. Cory Doctorow does the job and a lot more.

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Atom Atom is a new RSS syndication format that MT are very keen on, so I’d better swot up on this…

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Pink tank! It’s a big pink tank, parked in Bermondsey! Woo!

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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work ‘Or some interesting ways to get some variety into thos eboring panels where some dumb writer has a bunch of lame characters sitting around and talking for page after page!’

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Darque Dungeon Nice Chick Tract remix: ‘Marcia, don’t be a pussy. You are whinier than my livejournal’

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Duplex Planet I used to read Dave Greenburger’s zine years ago - good to see an impressive site here.

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Surviving IKEA by pretending it’s a video game. ‘IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings.’

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Illustrated guide to MT templates Nice looking entry-level guide to delving into Movable Type templates.

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