August 2001 Archives
New random linkage in the left column. Script shamelessly nicked from Davo, who's currently living it up in Catalonia.
LukaBloom.com has just gone live.
All day I thought but of one thing.
The sound of someone smoking, on the phone. The slight sucking noise, the intake of breath and smoke. A deadly occupation, that makes you sound alive.
There's simply nothing sexier than smoking.
Too bad it makes you taste like death on a stick.
That dingo ate my baby? Meg's take on the new meme.
For those who can't wait till Peter Gabriel's new album you can watch and listen to the song and video he did with Afro Celt Sound System: Further in Time.
How long to... Peter Gabriel working on his album 'Up' for the best of the last decade, it seems. His website claims final mixing has commenced. Someone give me a release date, please.
Wayfaring Stranger [ mp3 ]
I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world of woe
But there is no sickness, no toil or danger
In that bright land to which I go
I'm going there to see my father
( mother, brother, sister)
I'm going there no more to roam
I'm going there just over Jordan
I'm going there, I'm going home
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep
But beauteous fields lie just beyond me
Where souls redeemed their vigil keep
I want to wear a crown of glory
When I get home to that bright land
I want to shout Salvation's story
In concert with that blood washed band
One of these days lord, oh it won't take long now
All men will rise, stand side by side
Then hand in hand we're bound for glory
Our foes will fall neath freedom's tide
(sung by GF at B.R.H's funeral a week ago today in Dublin)
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Gift. Hey, we all need a little, um, book, sometimes.
September Song
Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few
September, November
And these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you
Mailwasher 1.17, to fight spam and viruses and chainmail. Will try this, Sircam's still driving me nuts.
The World's Hardest Film Quiz in the Village Voice. Link via I Love Everything.
I'm not even going to try it.
e-wank - buzzwords / buzzphrases for a wired world
Airplane Blonde: Someone who has bleached/dyed hair - but still has a "black box".
corporate anthems: a compendium of corporate cringe. Put together by Chris.
Buffy news: a pilot for Ripper the spin off series starring Tony Head as Giles will begin shooting in Spring.
Q: Would you like me to seduce you? Is that what you want?
A: Don't you worry yo purdy little head about that!
Linda Gray does what she always did best. Go for the young 'uns.
Guardian news Quiz, I scored 8 out of 10 today. Scary.
Soon I'll be wapbloggin' with the best of 'em. Just ordered this Nokia 3330. cancelled that one.
We think you are Bisexual and we are 54.47% confident with our answer.
Oh.
... but then, I could be British.
Ya weren't told because I tend to act before I think. I do believe it's one of my better traits. Most of the time.
... and let me pilfer that link off ya, Chris, a blog named 'King of Trash' just HAS to be good.
Luka Bloom plays the Royal Carré Theatre on February 11, 2002. Ticket sales have already started. He'll be promoting his new album 'Soshin' says the Mojo mailing list, and I'm wondering if that shouldn't be 'Seisiun'. I'm guessing Mojo spoke to someone on the phone...
There's more news from Luka, he'll be selling a retrospective CD including material he released as 'Barry Moore' (Treaty Stone, Live in Groningen) from the new website he's setting up.
Two neat packages arrived today. One was Derek's book Design for Community, which both looks good and reads well. No big surprise there, eh? I'm not particularly thrilled with communities these days, but hey - I might get back on form by the end of this book.
Also in: the wonderful 'London Underground' font that'd I'd ordered from P22.
Amsterwitched: a site for witches in Amsterdam. (in Dutch)
Fan talks about Madonna: "She's not as dirty as she used to be," said Kohs, describing the show's more restrained use of explicit themes. "She's grown up like I have."
Yes, we'll all be squeaky clean by the time we kick the bucket. Madonna certainly doesn't get her hands dirty these days. Wasn't it Popbitch who revealed she's never changed a nappy?
Matthijs blogs anything related to computer security: "I have written a paper detailing security weaknesses in the HDCP content protection system. I have decided to censor myself and not publish this paper for fear of prosecution and/or liability under the US DMCA law."
Wapblogger was made by Niklaus who runs an elegantly designed blog: mobile thoughts v2.0 words matter. It's in German.
On my wishlist... a WAP phone. Oh... someone just told me they're going up in price next week. Bugger. Anyway... then I'd be using this for sure: wapblogger - a WAP interface to Blogger, LiveJournal and other smart weblog-style tools
Oops, I'm scared now: Spellchecker blog.
Irish or travelling to Ireland in October? You can start booking for the Dublin Theatre Festival now.
A pox on the bastard who pickpocketed and then headbutted my mate at the Nottinghill Carnival last weekend.
Shuffling DNS, moving afterthefloods.com, you may experience vertigo.
New Leonard Cohen album coming up. Dig the new single. Very Robbie Robertson.[ news via Lukelog ]
Logophilia - the word lover's website.
Is there only one word lover?
Bully OnLine: Tim Field shares his unique insight into workplace bullying, a cause of stress and ill health and the basis of harassment, discrimination, abuse and violence.
C'mon be honest.
Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing,
Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more.
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token.
"Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!"
USA Today says Online journals popular with the opinionated: A blog can be anything from a rambling diary to a slick site with links to the news of the day. Some blogs are intensely personal, while others are more general, such as Metafilter.com, where an online community discusses new developments on the Web.
'explo' [ via notsosoft.com ]
Remember this? BEHIND THE CURTAIN: a day in the life of webloggers. It's a year ago on September 24... wonder if we're going to do it again.
The sun beat down on me and our little group as we walked towards the pub for a piss and a pint. Just a few hours to kill till show time. Me, the Brit, the Yank, the Chinese and the Northerner none of us really knew. A few hours before I had whipped out my mobile and sent off a gentle query accross the channel. Over the hills and far away. Now, the hellish gadget beeped in return.
HEL Website... which leads to 'Lowlands-L'. Not what you think.
In case you hadn't noticed, Internet Explorer 6 for Windows is out. Fully compliant with web standards. Alledgedly.
The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs : Edward Lear, Nonsense Poetry
'Your nose is so shiny! your head is so round!
'And your shape is so slender and bright!
'Ding-a-dong! Ding-a-dong!
'Ain't you pleased with my song?'
What would I like to rename Devil's Arse? God, don't get me started. Rename and then the red hot poker treatment. Much like Edward II.
Look who's cashing in: Ralph Bakshi's animated adaption of the Lord of the Rings will be available on VHS and DVD soon.
Bjork in The Times.
Q: What advice would you give to someone like me who wants to be "different", but lacks the courage of his convictions?
A: You don't have to try to be different. Just be yourself.
I'm sorry, what was that? [ via David Gagne ]
Just seen: chilling gorefest 'The Hole', not a bad thrill off a Monday evening. Best bit: the soundtrack. Worst: the giggling airheads behind us.
Doesn't that look good: ShopRadiohead.com
Happy birthday to Simon at minor 9th | day tripping
If you've ever registered a domain with Yahoo check your registration and see who's the Billing contact. If it's Yahoo, you may not receive notification when your domain expires!
From the lost pages of Vindication of Eternity... a Swedish blog to remember.
Will you be my BlogBuddy? Tiny app to post to your blog avoiding Blogger's web interface.
You said it: I'm a wanker.
... did you know this template was designed by Tom Coates?
It's a family thing: little.red.boat [anna pickard]
Cafe Med, on Dean Street in Soho, London's quite a decent place where I've had food a couple of times over the last few years. Staff is pleasant, but perhaps a little insistent on getting you to order booze. Just how many times do you want to hear 'would you like a drink'?
It's just around the corner from the Admiral Duncan pub which some of you may remember was the target of a nail bomb attack a few years ago.
Road Trip '01: 9 days, 10 teams, 7 games, 6 stadiums, 2 buddies, 1 truck. Luke and
Sandy are going on a trip, and they'd like you to come along for the ride. [ via MeFi projects mailing list ]
Fairvue Central >> Features >> Do You Know These Bloggers?: as always Nikolai brings people together in the prettiest way.
About a Bot: webreview.com discusses blogging from IRC.
"We used to live around the corner, when we were 18, 19 years old, we came to London with our band, we just lived around the corner from here, off Earl's Court Road, and we were just kids, and now... we have kids.
"It's kinda interesting, having kids, it makes you more militant, makes you more angry in a lot of ways with the world, the way it is. It also makes you think about, it helps you get inside the head of your father maybe, and I didn't really get on with my old man too well for a lot of my life with him, but I made my peace with him before he died. I'm glad I did. Is this getting a bit Oprah Winfrey?
"Anyway, he was a really tough, tough Dublin nut, and I would ask him is there anything I can do for him? And he'd just say: 'Fuck off'. That's how he used to show affection. He was a really extraordinary kind of a man and I think I got both my voice and my ego from him."
"I mean, we bake an apple crumble pie, and all she wants to do is take a picture of it. Honestly!"
Tom, thinking big.
'What's this about massages?'
Um, yeah, chair massages, we get them at work.
'Fer FUCK's sake... what IS this? Ya spoilt young 'un!
Heh heh. It's the new economy, maaaan.
'Well, gowan then, go getcher massage... ya wagon!
My houseguest brought me vegemite on my insistance. I'd never had it before. It tastes like a wet Oxo cube, but does lift the blandness of a cheese like Wensleydale nicely - if used sparingly (on buttered toast). I think I tried Marmite once as a kid and hated it. So what's the difference between Marmite and Vegemite? All is revealed.
Noodles are our friends.
I just met Bono, about half an hour ago, less than 5 minutes from my house.
I'd never met the man before and had made the decision that this tour I would finally make an effort to accomplish it. I can smell his cologne on me.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
