There’s a huge and fascinating article by Derek Powazek over on DesignForCommunity.com at the moment that I really want to respond to, but feel that I probably shouldn’t until 1) Cal and I have finished Barbelith and 2) I’ve had more time to digest it thoroughly. In the meantime, why not discuss the article?
So I’ve got my thirtieth birthday in less than a month and I was planning to go to San Francisco with Davo about now, but I ran out of money at exactly the wrong time, so that didn’t happen. But now some people I know are talking about Burning Man – which frankly I’d love to go to… But the money, oh the money… Everything’s so confusing and expensive…
Grant Morrison’s new project, The Filth looks like it’s kicking into gear much faster than most of his work. The new previews over at PopCultureShock reveal that it’s a book about the people that ‘wipe the arse of the world’.
I’ve tried many forms of exercise in my short, sexy life – but my favourite by far is Jon Pertwee Aerobics. Simply download the ‘throwing shapes’ screensaver from bbc.co.uk/doctorwho, install as appropriate, and then mimic the movements of the Dancing Doctor- ideally to something like Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’.
In a motion that was originally inspired by the tact-free B3ta Hate-figure challenge but has since turned into something else entirely, I’ve been wandering around looking at period anti-Hitler propaganda. There’s one image that particularly stunned me – Russia, the UK and the US united against Hitler. It’s a weirdly frightening poster, particularly because of the total resolve on the faces of the unlikely allies.
I decided on Jason’s advice to install Kung Tunes – a little app that allows you to upload a file to your server while you are listening to iTunes, so you can tell the world what you’re listening to at that very moment. Except of course I can’t get it to work through the BBC’s firewalls.
It’s all the web can talk about today, and rightly so: Yahoo News on Warchalking.
So I had a bit of a difficult evening last night, and so when I work up on my sofa at two-thirty in the morning, I pretty much figured that I’d be a bit the worse for wear this morning. But when I heard the call to prayer from my neighbours bedroom through the connecting wall at six-thirty in the morning, I seriously thought I’d go insane. Unable to sleep again, I showered and slumped in front of the TV to pass the time. Except that forty minutes after slumping, I noticed that time had passed two hours and forty minutes. At this point I realised that my watch had stopped during the night and that I was already twenty minutes late for work. When I finally arrived I plugged myself into some music and have barely surfaced all day…
Subterranean Song Archive: Song of the day today is Things have Changed, by Bob Dylan. The lyrics are inordinately morbid, but there’s something about the presentation that appeals to me – it’s kind of jaunty. Which is nice.
News: Warchalking hits the Daypop #1 spot.
