Month: March 2001

7.30pm One Hundred Percent Straight Night A night of programmes for straight, poof-hating men who are completely heterosexual and spend most of their time ******* ladies ** *** ****. [TV Go Home]

It is very important that you go out and buy Jeffrey Zeldman’s book on preorder: Taking Your Talent to the Web [Change Amazon Prefs]. This is particularly true if you think it is relevant to your life and / or work, but also true, because I think it is important to support people who produce creative work on the net. In the same spirit – you can preorder Derek Powazek’s Design for Community [Change Amazon Prefs] as well. The latter book is one that I’m really looking forward to – particularly after fighting for radical improvements (not as yet implemented) to Time Out’s ‘Rants and Raves‘ forums.

What Men Do When They Are Bored: When men are bored they do this. When men have a spare ten minutes they do this. When men are not stressed, or in a public place or have bigger things on their mind they do this. And they mostly do it when those things are going on as well. Once I didn’t do this for over a week, and I got all aggressive and macho. It was weird, but cool. I’d do it again if I could be bothered. Some men write weird shit about other weird shit that makes other men (ostensibly) do it. Some men don’t. Some men don’t really mention it that much, but then again some of them are having too much fun at the moment for it to be strictly necessary. Some men frankly don’t bear thinking about – particularly when they’re doing it – but I’m too nice to talk about them in a public place (you know who you are). You know occasionally you have to wonder if the people you used to go out with think about you when they’re doing it. Or maybe that’s just me. I sometimes wonder if even really major web celebrities do it? I would think that they do. I mean, they’re geeks right? I hear chicks do it too, but I think they have different techniques. (You know, this would be funnier if this was about hand-coding HTML or something, but I’m afraid it’s not. I really am that cheap. Link via Prol.]

This is indeed the grossest thing I’ve seen today. Aside: What does FOAF mean?

Meg explains the origins of “Not So Soft“.

Any and all translations appreciated: “malorama”.

Excerpts from a Subterranean Diary: I had this particularly weird night last night. I came home exhausted from
seeing Meg and Davo, and slumped in front of my computer to check my e-mail. Ten
minutes later I turn around to look at my bed. It kind of glares at me. Around two in the
morning I give up and lie awake in bed. Four-thirty AM I’m still awake, sweating and uncomfortable.

After a strange conversation with Matt Haughey, I’m now really interested in knowing what Ev is talking about…

Advert: One man does not need two computers (unless of course one is a Titanium Powerbook). I have two computers. So I’m selling one. Now. I went into town today and got a frankly laughable offer (£100) for the whole package, so I’m opening this up to the floor. Does anyone want to buy this complete set-up for a ludicrously small amount? Either to cannibalise or use around the house. It’s not really built for games, but it works perfectly well. Conditions: You can buy any part or all of it, but you have to come and collect it from Maida Vale and pay in cash – and SOON. I’ll even autograph it if you want me to…

IBM 6X86 PR 200 Desktop
64 Mb RAM
56.6k Internal Modem
4 GB Hard Disk
24X CD ROM
Sforce S25 Speakers
Logitech Mouse (with little wheel thing)
CTX SVGA Monitor 15″ (14″ visible) Monitor
Deskjet 400 Printer
Plustek OpticPro 4831P Flatbed Scanner
Software:
Windows 98
Microsoft Office 97 Small Business Edition
[Excel & Word]
Paint Shop Pro 5
Age of Empires

Best offer over £150 for the lot received by Saturday night accepted immediately and without question. COME ON!: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Answer me this: If it’s so good to be back, then why were you away so long?