- I’d Love This Product Even If I Weren’t A Stealth Marketer The Onion cuts right to the heart of the issue as usual.
- The Extraordinary World of Warcraft / South Park episode that was broadcast a few days ago So like any good nerd I was both stunned by the accuracy and also irritated by the errors. You totally can’t build up XP on boar! After a few levels you stop getting XP from something so much weaker than you!
- Media Convert Free, online and apparently quite powerful media conversion utility. I haven’t had a play with this yet, but it looks like it could be pretty useful. Wonder if it’s got a web service around it.
- Cuddle Party – ‘boundary-appropriate workshop’ Learn how to stop touching inappropriately! Get warm and close to lots of other people who crave human contact! Stop creeping me out! What’s wrong with an affectionate nod?!
- xkcd decides to represent one of Simon Willison’s major life events The world afterwards has been resolutely full of squirrels.
- Robert Anton Wilson needs our help He wrote the Illuminatus trilogy, he inspired many of the weirdest counter-cultural figures of the last several decades and he’s poor and dying. A contribution can help him to die in peace.
- Let your council sell your details to marketing agencies to avoid paying any council tax? No doubt some people thinks this is a really really good idea, but all I can see is a disturbing border being breached between viewing me as a citizen and viewing me as a consumer.
- Lance Arthur’s Conspicuous Consumption Nice idea – a weblog where you detail everything you buy and what you think of it. If only we could distribute this around the web a bit more. Nicely designed too, old chap!