Category: Random

I am working on a not so secret project with young Katy. I’m not going into details yet, but it’s a little tiny fun site which we are going to do for a laugh. I’m going to stick it on the plasticbag.org domain name when it’s done, just so I don’t feel it is completely going to waste. As she reports, we also went to see Reindeer Games (known as Deception in the UK for some reason), which basically was really quite poor. Half of it should really have been a comedy feature with John Candy and Steve Martin. The other half was like some weird fusion of Reservoir Dogs and Wild Things. Very strange. Not very good. Don’t go and see it.

Newsflash: Powazek Quits Weblogging. While in an unrelated, but nonetheless relevant counterpoint, Mark has said:

“I didn’t do it for myself, I didn’t do it for you, I did it because I had to. I am Batman.”

Barbelith is now brought to you via a G4 400, 192Mb RAM, DVD drive, TV card, Zip Drive, 17″ Studio Monitor, Kritter USB webcam, OS9. Long live the Mac Revolution.

I’m really keen on anti-advertising. I wonder occasionally if I should try to persuade my boss to run banners for really creative sites as house ads instead of some of the dubiously designed ones that we currently run. I wonder if that would increase general click-thru rates?

I have written and rewritten this post about thirty times, and every time it sounds too flippant. So I’m not going to bother writing anything detailed or in depth. Fuck it. I feel like someone slid the hook from “I Know What You Did Last Summer” into my stomach and with superhuman strength forced it towards my throat. Or I feel crazed and in control of a passenger jet. But mostly I just feel cold, and cruel, and hollow, and vengeful and actually partially dead. There will be no more posting tonight.

Thanks to Dan at Daily Doozer, who has scanned all of the PCFormat feature on weblogging. Read away…

Finally, a piece of beautiful design found through my referrers log: rupture.co.uk…

Wow. People can get really heated about stuff can’t they? Metafilter madness.

Current weblogging design favourites: wetlog, public weblog, magnetbox, keithbrown.com, tame.net, Web Therapy, Confessions of a Wannabe Actor, underachievers.com.