Post Spiderman Meme Recycling: This cartoon demonstrates that all your sexualities are belong to us. Tobey Maguire is the new fetishised male. Geek culture finally got a bit of muscle behind it. And I declare myself to be the first of a new species of sexually aware human – the man who is only interested in shagging nervous geeky visionaries.
In a conversation with a friend about dealing with the little irritations that having to deal with other people can engender, the comment is made, “I think the trick is to be better than everyone else, and then treating them as idiotic pets.”
I’m so excited about Spiderman I might burst. And of course it doesn’t hurt that Webb and Jones have both said vaguely positive things about it. What I might take umbrage at – if I were inclined – is the suggestion that “Coates is going to absolutely love this movie, in a really unhealthy way”. God only knows what that means, but it either means my adolescent wish-fulfilment fantasies will all be fulfilled. Or I suspect – more accurately – Matt is commenting on the innate attractiveness of geeks.
Either way, I’m not totally convinced by the world ‘unhealthy’ – there’s too much native alarm in my system about that word. Too many contexts in which it isn’t entirely appropriate.
A brief list of things that I have been reading today and / or plan to read today after lunch with some very old friends in Primrose Hill and instead of doing what I should actually be doing, which is looking for a bloody flat:
Weblog Tool Round-up
In which consensus is drawn that of the various weblog tools and applications, Movable Type is the best. Which (in as far as the article goes) I would probably agree with. Particularly as of version 2.
Much ado about Blogging
In which Salon completely miss the point again (along with everyone else) about what the journalistic use of weblogging will be in the next ten years. I could tell you all what it is, but I’m concerned that someone else will do it first and if they do – no huge career for me! More on this stuff later. By the way, if anyone is looking for someone with incredible weblog experience who’s a trained journalist with experience in print and web, who also understands design and functionality and is prepared to pay me a fortune to work with programmers to demonstrate what’s going to replace the New York Bloody Times, then just e-mail me!
The Scourge of Arial
In which this guy argues that Arial is a bad copy of an unfashionable font (Helvetica) and that no one should really be using it any more as it’s basically only used by people who aren’t very professional.
Celine Dion fucking evil bitch
She kills iMacs! KILLS them! This is not the behaviour of a much-loved scrawny songstress. She’s supposed to be like sugar and spice, not CDR DEATH. One can only wonder how long it will take an iMac owner to sue the bitch’s bony ass off.
Webmonkey’s Guide to PHP
Having decided that a certain basic knowledge of PHP would not do me any hard – particularly as the Underground is now coded in it – I turn to Webmonkey for help…
Typecasting
Are you the kind of person who thinks that when Voyager travels through some space-gas, it shouldn’t generate vortices because there is no atmosphere? Are you interested in typography? In which case, this article should thrill you – it did me… In it the author takes you through several major modern movies set in the past and compares and contrasts their use of ‘period’ fonts. More interesting than it sounds… [and there’s still more at fawny.org]
Will David Fincher – godlike director of Fight Club and The Game, and mediocre director of Panic Room and Alien 3 really be directing Mission Impossible 3? Tell me it’s not so!
While I should be organising a place to live, I spend the time instead throwing away huge amounts of crap that would be a tremendous hinderance should I ever find a place to live. Among the many things that have gone is the purple t-shirt that a flat-mate once brought home swearing that it would ‘really suit’ me. So far saved from the abyss is the pair of Abercrombie and Fitch blue extra-huge combats with things all over them that I bought and loved, and only subsequently realised made me look completely ridiculous. And found for what appears to be the first time: my two-sizes too large geniune Nathan Barley t-shirt, which I’m either going to have to auction or give to the T-shirt king.
I’ve heard a lot of different angles on this one in the last few days, so now I’m opening it up to the floor. I once heard someone say that you should pay one-third of your income in rent. That’s all I can remember. One third on rent, one third on something else and a final third on something else again. Now of course my first question is whether or not that’s supposed to be pre-tax salary or post-tax salary. And today a friend in the US said that you should never pay more in rent than one week’s salary. Thus leaving three-quarters for living and saving. So what’s true? What’s the correct ration to spend on a place to live? Won’t somebody tell me!?
Grrr BTopenworld sucks: “We are currently investigating a problem with the BTopenworld mail servers, this is affecting the sending and receiving of E-Mail. Please bear with us as we endeavour to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. Meanwhile we apologise for any inconvenience.”
I genuinely love the new BBCi search facility. I think the design is elegant – the large tabs are simple but really really obvious and functional, and the whole layout is easy on the eyes and clear. The only thing I don’t like is the search box itself. Weirdly, styled the way it has been, it is less obvious to me on the page. It looks a certain amount more graphic-like, and a certain amount less like a piece of browser functionality… Interestingly this is less the case on a browser like Chimera on OSX, which automatically anti-aliases all the text on the page…
Matt Jones isn’t ninja or pirate (he maintains). He claims to be a a giant killer robot. When pushed, he was unprepared to say whether or not he was a ninja giant killer robot or a pirate giant killer robot.