Category: Random

The latest design for plasticbag.org is the creation of Interconnected.org.

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What strange items light the fires of the world’s favourite webloggers? My tour of the depths of the amazon wishlists reveals all:

Jason Kottke (kottke.org)

1. Book: Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp : And Other Essays
2. Book: The Social Life of Information
3. DVD: American Pimp

Luke Martin (CaptainFez.com)

1. CD: Practical Footwear, Sodastream
2. Book: The Ten Books on Architecture
3. CD: 20th-Century Russian Piano Music

Caroline van Oosten de Boer (Prolific.org)

1. Toy: Teksta Puppy
2. Game: Escape from Monkey Island
3. Book: Crazy About Women

Meg Pickard (notsosoft.com)

1. Book: The Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies for Women
2. Book: Warp-speed Branding
3. Book: Cod

Brad Graham (The Bradlands)

1. Book: Military Trade
2. Book: Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2000
3. Book: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Chris Peters (sourground.co.ukj)

1. CD: Music Has the Right to Children, Boards Of Canada
2. CD: Opiate, Tool
3. Book: The End of Print

Other people’s wishlists: consolationchamps.com, accidental.plastiqueweb.com, rainy.net/catherine/, fiendishthingy.net, shauny.org/pussycat/, peterme.com/, davidgagne.net/, 120degrees.com/, magnetbox.com.

Last Wednesday, at the last minute and pretty much on a whim, Chris and his boyfriend and I went to see Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. If I’m honest, this trip had much more to do with the celebrity cast than the play itself.

So, fittingly, I’m not going to talk too much about the play, except to say that I think certain aspects of it will resonate with anyone with a vaguely disfunctional family-life. I’m not going to say much about the performances either (Paul Nicholls was surprisingly good, Paul Rudd was slightly disappointing, Jessica Lange made the best of an unbelieveably irritating part and Charles Dance was quite clearly the star of the piece).

But there was something astonishingly strange about seeing these people in the flesh in such a personal piece. You feel you have a connection with them – like you’ve both just gone through something together – something that you’d like to discuss with them. But of course from their perspective, you basically haven’t.. There’s something duplicitous about the relationship. I came out wanting to take Paul Rudd out for a drink, but knowing that that was an absurdity. That it wasn’t going to happen. Celebrity is a strange, strange beast.

I’ve had a counter on my site for the first time in about six months. Some of the information I have found out has been extremely disturbing. For example, these are the last ten search requests that led people to this site:

• Bannoffee
• How media effects teenage
• Tubehell
• plasticbag face
• gay men in water clothed
• metafilter headlines
• picture of a alien behind
• women’s favourite penises
• angus-deayton
• cover me in plastic

I kid you not.

Bloody Hell. The fall-out from the “You’ve Got Blog” article continues. After the suggestions of elitism from fawny.org, now comes The A-List Fan Club – a site purely dedicated to ‘gentle’ satire of the weblog hegemony. I hereby declare myself to be a B-minus List weblogger at best. I, frankly, “Could Try Harder”. By analogy, I think this makes me ‘Blog’ Andie MacDowell…

Motto: You can’t be a hot bitch in a car with safety features…

The seven new TLDs (top level domains) which will soon be available have been announced by ICANN. [ZDNet]. They are – .name .pro .museum .aero .coop .info and .biz – of which .name .info and .biz will be available to anyone. It’s time to start saving your pennies and thinking of those killer domain names (london.info?) before they become available early next year…

I spent a good three hours last night helping out Dan with his current evil scheme: Blogtrumps. He showed me his design for one of the cards, and I foolishly said I could knock him up an HTML version in ten minutes. How wrong I was.

Anyway, presenting Dan’s work in full – collect the full set of: 1) Tom Coates / Plasticbag.org [card],
3) Jason Kottke / Kottke.org [card],
2) Meg Pickard / NotSoSoft.com [card],
6) Blogger / Blogger.com [card],
5) Cameron Barrett / Camworld.com [card],
7) Matt Webb / Interconnected.org [card],
13) Katy Lindemann / kitschbitch.com [card],
9) Nikolai Nolan / fairvue.com [card],
12) Mark Olynciw / riothero.com [card],
11) Caz / prolific.org [card],
10) Luke Martin / CaptainFez.com [card],
8) Ev Williams / evhead.com [card],
4) Meg Hourihan / megnut.com [card].

MIRROR IMAGE: how I am described by Oh Messy life:

“TOMBOT: Rounding out the propaganda squad, agent Tombot WILL NOT REST until dirty deed is complete. Knows you better than you know yourself. Stares death in the eye and asks for a smoke.”