Year: 2001

Whatever she says is completely untrue.

Are Periods a thing of the past? Women – free yourself from ‘the curse’ (positive perspective) or find your body the subject of more medicalisation and experimentation. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? The Underground is there for you to discuss it…

Via Simon, I come across the humanclock.com which has a different picture for every single minute of the day. Genius.

Today at ickle.org: the atom (by Tom Coates).

Ironically, I turn from an inbox full of Sircam crapulence to an article in Wired: Hey SirCam, Where’d You Go?.

I’m going to say it loud and say it clear – damn you, Road Runner North Carolina – for one of your staff has just sent me eighteen copies of the Sircam virus in eight hours. Poor chap is going to have a hell of a day tomorrow when people start complaining.

Ah well – it wasn’t such a bad idea then. Timeout.com has just fired all but three of its staff. Getting out four months ago doesn’t seem like anywhere near such a bad decision any more.

UpsideClown: Bigger, Better, Brother: “We never quite knew what we were in for. The Americans got off lightly – Americans being so fucking dull that a program dedicated to ten of them sitting around watching television and eating pies was never going to be a goer. Not when Survivor provided the tempting vista of a gang of equally stupid people slowly starving to death.”

Considering the amount of time I have spent in recent weeks reviewing Planet of the Apes related films for the BBC, I should be more excited by Salon’s article “Too much monkey business”. But it’s too shallow on the potential allegory within it, and too literal about the race relations parallels that are drawn (occasionally far too overtly and clumsily).

The beautiful genius of being able to see one’s planet from space is brought home fully in these satellite images of the smoke plume from Mount Etna. It’s both stunningly attractive and a terrifying testament to the volatility of nature. You can imagine exactly why, in ancient times, the romans thought Etna was the home of Hephaestus, god of the forge.