In science fiction films, the aliens always have much more powerful technology and make all the humans feel inadequate. I feel that way about people who have expert command over more than one language. Which makes me very embarassed to shamefully beg for help in translating a post from prolific.org‘s other site.
Tom Coates Explains Everything (to Martin Stevens): In answer to your questions, I am 5’10”, I have never had therapy but I took anti-depressants for six months many years ago, I have never had sex with a woman and my favourite cake is the heavily marzipan-laden ‘Battenberg’. Next!
The most important line in the best joke I have heard (and/or repeated) in years: “What shall I do with my long bony fingers and my big rubbery lips?”
Tom Coates Explains Everything: OK – I’m going to assume that a few people are going to find this place who haven’t been here before. In order to make things easier for said people, if you need any questions answered about anything (What is the capital of Uganda?), then e-mail me and I’ll put up my response here. [tom%40plasticbag.org]
So voting is now open for the 2001 Bloggies, and alongside it has come the standard amount of concern about popularity contests and competition between webloggers. plasticbag.org is (I think) in good company in the ‘best european weblog’ category (co-nominees are prolific, kitschbitch.com, notsosoft.com and lukelog. I think I’m voting for prol.
[Addendum: horrified / flattered to see that Meg and I are also up for ‘Weblog of the Year’. Now I feel tremendous performance anxiety.]
Over the last four or five months I have received the same piece of junk mail (in a variety of different formats) at least eight to ten times. Apparently coming from the e-mail address ‘hahaha@sexyfun.net’, it contains an attachment and reads as follows:
“Today, Snowhite was turning 18. The 7 Dwarfs always where very educated and polite with Snowhite. When they go out work at mornign, they promissed a *huge* surprise. Snowhite was anxious. Suddlently, the door open, and the Seven Dwarfs enter…”
Today I received the same e-mail twice, with one version being written in Spanish. I finally snapped and did a search on the net, only to find that it is a worm-based virus that sends itself to anyone who sends e-mail to an infected computer. All the information you need in order to deal with the virus is here. But be warned, I know for a fact that at least one of the people who has sent me e-mail has contracted this virus. If you’ve ever seen it, or think you might have opened it, run a virus check immediately.
Daze of our lives: “The Welsh National Ballooning Team of 1874. Every man on the team was scared of heights, so their record altitude was four feet two and a half inches.”
Words that appear too much in articles about the near-future of the internet and a list of weblogs in which they appear:
I am consumed with unimaginable fury and wonder (and went a bit ‘I’m really pointless and should kill myself’ for about ten minutes) when I stumbled upon interconnected.org‘s new design. It’s incredibly peacefully and elegantly put together, that manages (somehow) to artfully break up the linearity of the daily weblog entries with tasters for other bits of highly creative work that he’s put together.
I am all consumingly jealous.
Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over’: “My fellow Americans,” Bush said, “at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. The time has come to put all of that behind us.” [via linkmachinego]