So the secret’s out [thanks sja] – I have registered and paid for plasticbag.org (don’t go there yet though because there isn’t anything up). I’m interested in people’s opinions on it. After the other two going in about twenty minutes I got a bit nervous about this one…
Kerry is becoming quite ubiquitous. I quoted him a couple of days ago, and now, Mark at Riothero is quoting him as well. I promised Kerry that I’d set up a weblog for him on my server, and I still haven’t gotten around to it, which just illustrates what a bad person I am. In the meantime, he will have to remain the dark figure behind the scenes – the Charlie behind the Angels.
Anyway, he sent Mark and I the same riddle:
1. In a street there are 5 different houses in five different colours. 2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. 3. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. 4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage. (pretend there is a drawing of five houses here -- identical in shape (but not colour) in every way. House 1 House 2 House 3 House 4 House 5 The question is: Who owns the fish? To prove you are not guessing, specify his nationality, colour house, brand of smoke and preferred beverage. Clues: - The Brit lives in the red house - The Swede keeps dogs as pets - The Dane drinks tea - The green house is on the left of the white house - The green house's owner drinks coffee - The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds - The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill - The man living in the center house drinks milk - The Norwegian lives in the first house - The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats - The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill - The owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer - The German smokes Prince - The Norwegian lives next to the blue house - The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water
It took me 25 minutes. Have a go and e-mail me when you think you have the answer, and I’ll tell you if you are right…
This would be a really interesting literate science fiction quiz if it wasn’t for one simple fact. You answer a question, it tells you that you’re wrong, and then when you check the answers, it thinks you have put down a completely different answer to the one that you actually have. What a waste of time.
I’ve bought a new domain name, and the barbelith weblog will shortly be moving over to it. Only it won’t be called barbelith any more (duh!). In the meantime, service may be a little sporadic. Bear with me in this exciting time…
Someone needs to whup the ass of the Daily Doozer. In the meantime, ask the Magic Eight Ball some questions of your own…
I’m absolutely terrified that this article: AppleInsider -An Exclusive Inside Look at Adobe Photoshop 6 will be the final straw that forces me to go out and buy myself a Mac on some kind of huge loan arrangement.
I’m delighted to report that Neonlit, which I have been running for Time Out, has just been selected as a Pick of the Week by Yahoo. And it’s a particularly good week to visit as well, as it includes a feature about Martin Amis.
I’m really interested in Atesque‘s redesign – it’s got that wonderful ordered madness feel to it. Feels like an punk or metal album cover. Something with a lot of energy in it…