Assembled from a huge number of satellite images scanning the earth at night, this image from NASA is possibly one of the most stunning things I’ve ever seen. Be warned though – this is a fairly substantial download (500k-ish). [via metafilter]
If anyone owned plasticvag.org, captainfex.com or notsodoft.com they’d get a ton of traffic off my typos. Send me your your amusing URL typos (not of course assuming for one minute that anyone thought the ones I did above were in any way amusing).
I made my first post to Disturbing Search Requests today, after receiving a virtual plethora of visitors who came seeking, amongst other things “Office Slag Porn”, “Breckin Meyer Naked” and “Sexy Gay Duck Men”. I’m extremely depressed by the idea that these people come here and don’t find what they are looking for. So depressed in fact that I am thinking of putting up little pages based around what I think they are looking for. That way everyone’s happy…
Film recommendation: The Warriors (1979) [*]. I watched The Warriors on TV last night, and I’ve never seen anything as funny in my entire life. Imagine New York in the late 70s. Imagine all the gangs are trying to find eight members of a rival gang on the streets of Manhattan. OK so far?
Now imagine that every gang wears themed dress. And not any themed dress. But gay themed dress. So you get gang members running around half-naked except for red leather waistcoats. Other gangs wear black leather peaked caps, chaps and have ‘taches. And then there’s the gang of mimes. And the gang who look like Little League Baseballers, only sponsored by Kiss. And then there’s the Evil Brady Bunch Dungaree Wearing Roller-Gang, and evil Lesbian gang “The Lizzies”. A classic movie. Up there with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Regular readers will know all about Nick (aka Corny). For those of you that don’t, he posted on kitschbitch.com while Katy was away, is a regular in the Barbelith Underground and he’s currently working on getting fridgepoet.co.uk up and running. But all of that is basically incidental. He’s a good friend and an old friend and it’s his birthday today. So Happy Birthday old chap.
I’ve finally started the process of getting barbelith.com ready for its new role as massive, subversive, underground metropolis of orgiastic power. I feel very proud of myself.
Read all about our favourite Weblog Family Robinson in an article on how technology can keep families together. [USA Weekend]
Thanks (I think) to SPIKE magazine for the kind words:
“Two blogs I’ve been enjoying recently are plasticbag.org and Little Yellow Different. I think because both are concise, funny, honest and bitchy in roughly equal measure.
I was born on the same date as the man who runs this weblog. My parents were called Andrew and Sarah, but my mother died when I was two years old. My father remarried, but my stepmother was murdered in 1892. Her body had been felled with 19 blows of an axe. Though I was acquitted, many people believed that I was responsible for this killing. Who Am I?
I’m slightly awed by bartleby.com – a website which contains hundreds of “Great Books” in their full form online. This includes the complete works of Shakespeare as well as stuff by Einstein, Tolstoy, Wilde and many others. An endlessly useful resource.
