“Aye, but am Ah boathered innit.”
(Caricature by Paul Szep at Slate, rosso-nasalised and captionified by moi)
June 30, 2007
Scenes we’ll never see
“Aye, but am Ah boathered innit.”
(Caricature by Paul Szep at Slate, rosso-nasalised and captionified by moi)
Spotted: celeb
Comedian Dave Gorman has loads of photos on Flickr. Well, why wouldn’t he? Pretty interesting bunch of images.
June 28, 2007
June 27, 2007
Trash trailer
For fans of Anne Coulter, if there are any left.
And speaking of Anne Coulter, look what happens when you look her up on Technorati. (via)
Postscript: If there was anything less funny than Coulter herself, it was the editorial cartoonists’ attempts to capture just what it is that’s so fucking awful about her.
One thing did occur to me, though. The little black dress? The cascading blonde locks? The rock-star shades?
Coulter thinks she’s a babe. Feel free to barf.
She wasn’t always so utterly gorgeous.
What is it about farting?
I haven’t been surfing and I haven’t been blog-reading today, so I have nothing to say. I have been trying to build a new website for my choir, yes I know, me of all people, but you know what they say, if you want something done.
Now my head is pounding, and I think I’m going to watch my tape of the first episode of the second series of Rome, because otherwise I’ll get behind on the repeats, lose the place and have to wait for the library to buy the DVD box set.
I will, though, pass along this video, which is boyishly disgusting and quite hilarious.
Bees all you can bee
On the one hand, anything coming out of Squidoo is likely to be some lame-o trying to sell you something unspeakable.
On the other hand, I am worried about the bees and this hive-leaving thing they’re up to. So when I got the newsletter alert on this Squidoo Lens, I went to look, and it is a handy primer on the situation.
And when you’re thinking they’re not really selling anything, along comes the trolley, with T-shirts and whatnot from CafePress. I might even give in to the urge to buy, were it not for the fact they’re the same T-shirts etc I’ll soon be selling on CafePress myself. On behalf of a Good Cause, obviously.
Still, I digress. Save the bees!
A bee pictured yesterday, debating whether to go home
June 26, 2007
Lame blogroll
She said that she was working for the ABC News
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use
Has anyone ever seen a lamer blogroll than this one?
Clearly some crusty old Perry White came out of his office the other day and barked an order for Jimmy Olsen to knock together an article on those blogs that are all the rage among the kids today.
And look what they came up with. Does anyone think the writer of this article really rates Gizmodo and TechCrunch? How come he didn’t think to link a single blog in the whole list (as pointed out by Jason Kottke, via whose mentioned blog I found this piece)?
The rest of the list is a name-check for all the big-timers, a clear sign the reporter doesn’t know anything about blogs and found this list in an About page or similar. Gawker and Scripting News? Bruce Schneier and Wonkette? He claims Daring Fireball is “always worth a read”. That’s easy to say, since the guy posts about once a week, if that. I don’t think the reporter knows that, though.
And really, how lame is it to mention Daily Kos and Huffington Puffington? Nobody who needs an introduction to those two is going to be even slightly interested. I personally find both of them almost unreadable. They’re so massive they completely miss the point of what a blog is. You might as well include CNN.com on the list.
There are, inevitably, one or two good choices, but the whole list is overdone (why 100?) and underworked. I’d rather have ten blogs from someone who knows what they’re talking about than 100 from some intern like this.
The careful reader will have noticed that I too have failed to provide links to the blogs mentioned. I’m not going to do ABC’s work for them.
Grapes 2.0 