Month: July 2002

So it’s Buffy vs Osama Bin Laden – Round one, Ding Ding! Metaquoting from Metafilter: “Any structured intellectual approach to describing this situation ó and planning for it ó is so uncertain that a valid structure can only be developed as an exercise in complexity or “chaos” theory. I, however, would like you to think about the biological threat in more mundane terms. I am going to suggest that you think about biological warfare in terms of a TV show called “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” that you think about the world of biological weapons in terms of the “Buffy Paradigm,” and that you think about many of the problems in the proposed solutions as part of the “Buffy Syndrome.” [via prol’s linkmatic ubermind]

I found a neat little site this evening, with a few elegant little touches – become looks rather unassuming, but contains a full version of Connect 4, Pong, a rather elegant font called Feynman, and my favourite feature – the photo gallery that resizes the window to the size of each photo displayed… And the best thing is that I can’t tell you how I found the site…

I think I’m in love with the Google Link Browser. It’s particularly good fun when you’re playing with weblogs.

It occurs to me that the job at the BBC that I’ve just finished might very well have been the most satisfying working experience of my life to date.

Bloody Guardian Unlimited. Unlimited my arse. Limited. Limited in linkybloglove for yours truly. Link to every other bloody weblogger in the universe why don’t you. Don’t worry about me. It’s not that I’m a dirty link slut. Oh no. But really… PS. Congratulations to much-loved young up-and-comer Simon Minor 9th for being mentioned first!

Word of the day: Boremonger – being someone who in defiance of international treaties commits crimes against humanity of the order of resolutely producing offensively boring content designed to pulp the higher faculties of the brain.

Is there anything more stressful in New Media life than launch dates? I’ve been at the BBC three and a half months and Friday will be my last day working with Greg Dyke’s Making it Happen project. During my time with the project I have reorganised and redesigned a static version of their intranet site, developed (with Matt Biddulph) an internal, web-interfaced ideas management system for handling all the ideas about transforming the BBC that come into Making it Happen, and hopefully tomorrow the discussion and community site that I’ve developed with help from Cal, Denise and current site-editor Andrea Dashfield, will launch. Assuming of course that it’s finished. Hopefully we’ll get it all polished off before Thursday evening, so there can be one day of functional live excitement before I head off to another new job at Upmystreet.com. Not a lot in the way of rest at the moment…

It’s all shiny and new and designed just for you – Barty Trabaca has remodelled his online pied-a-terre in a contemporary apple green and powder blue combination with some experimental avante-garde typography and a stunningly apropros Mac OSX Aqua style inverted heart motif. Bravissima, Barty… Bravissima…

It may be hard to believe, but this morning at work I was asked to produce this picture of a freaky baby for a very important BBC event. Turns out they won’t need it after all. Which is a relief. But all that work – I couldn’t let it all be wasted…

He is a dandy highwayman? Or maybe he’s a New Romantic throw-back? Or maybe he’s a bit of gay homosexual? How do you spot a highwayman?