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From cause celebre to scum…

I’m slightly surprised that anyone would be comfortable with being featured in an article called ‘From cause celebre to scum of the earth in just three months’, but I suppose you have to have a sense of humour about these things.

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The coolest human body on the net…

Possibly the coolest thing on the net – the complete Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray. Complete with disgustingly anatomical cut-away drawings of the human body.

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Sick of the Parrot tonight…

Tonight: UK webloggers meet up again. This time the evening is known as: sick of the parrot. All non-attendees will be executed. Do you understand what I’m saying?

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On timing a weblog relaunch…

The question of the moment is whether or not to reboot. I’ve been meaning to do some tightening work on pb.org for weeks now, but just haven’t had the time. Perhaps this is enough incentive – tighten, sharpen, refine, polish. I could do it this weekend. Oh so tempting. Or perhaps I should follow Jason and engineer a Skiboot instead. It occurs to me that the relaunches will kind of blend in with one another and that it might be a more intelligent thing (after Darwin and Dawkins) to pre-empt the general relaunch by a day. You might get more traffic that way.

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They never mention me…

There’s a substantial (and pretty well written and thought out) article on weblogs and weblogging over at Yahoo! Internet Life at the moment. I always find these articles slightly annoying since they never mention plasticbag.org (unless I know the author of the article), but I suppose that’s my own problem and I’m just going to have to get over it. [Prol’s thoughts]

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On the evolutionary origins of monogamy…

Monogamy is suddenly everywhere – or more to the point, discussions of monogamy are. Over at Barbelith, there’s a substantial debate raging about Monogamy vs Open Relationships, while the BBC discusses a New Scientist article that suggests that monogamy only evolves in species where the female is able to disguise whether or not she is sexually fertile. It is perhaps for this reason that those times in which a woman is least sexually fertile are stigmatised and have traditionally been a source of embarrassment to women. Quite what this means for gay relationships is something that I am unclear on – whether or not it is a social enterprise that is circumvented by the absence of a woman, or whether it is a cross-gender hard-coded (at least now) trait with genetic origins.

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Taking turns with the baby pictures…

Tit for tat. I suppose it’s only fair. I will shortly be appearing on Mo’s baby pictures section. I still maintain that only Davo looks exactly the same now as he did as a kid.

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MoOrgan.com gets the inside scoop…

The Misheard URL Project (Part three): MoOrgan.com (the inside scoop)

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The Misheard URL Project (Parts One & Two)

The Misheard URL Project (Parts one and two): BRANsluice (for your bowels) CaptainBEZ.com (dances badly).

 
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On finding someone competent…

Conversation with old friend: “You see what you need is someone who knows what the fuck they are doing, rather than some fat, hairy sucking butthole with half a brain cell.”