I’d just like to say a tremendous block of cheery thanks to Alan for the Air album that I received last week from my wishlist and to send a stupified by oh-so-bloody-happy face to Stuart – Ganesh on The Underground – for the best present I think I’ve ever received in my entire bloody life. I couldn’t be more grateful if you’d given me Tobey Maguire.
It may not be as interesting as what’s on Beck’s iPod – but just in case you were interested, here’s a text file of everything that’s on mine at the moment. We will have no clever comments. I’m nearly thirty for god’s sake. Give me a break.
What a weekend – it may sound trivial, but I don’t seem to have stopped moving for more than twenty minutes since Saturday morning. I’ve caught up with friends from University and played with their three year old daugher. I’ve been to see The Experiment (read more) and roamed around Waterstones with the chairman of the IAB. I’ve walked through Regent’s Park and up to Primrose Hill with Matt Interconnected, met up with Nick and Katy for coffee, ukeleles and jelly-beans, and come home with Katy to watch 24 and The West Wing before having to (grudgingly) abandon The Oscars at 3am in the morning.
It’s KPMG-link time all over again. Only this time, we’re talking about Starbucks. In a piece published at Backwash.com, it appears that a man who posted a link to the coffee company about how good Starbucks coffee was has been hit with a cease-and-desist, and been asked to remove said link forthwith. Last time with KPMG I encouraged everyone in the world to link to them immediately. They’re an internet business, and so susceptible to looking like an idiot online. With Starbucks, however, it’s a little more insidious. We really don’t want to give them any more publicity. So I’m thinking a different approach this time…
So link to sites that say that they hate Starbucks. Link to articles that explain how crappy they are. And how they’re putting people out of business. Link to No Logo‘s discussions of clustering corporate culture. Spread the meme everywhere you can. But don’t link to Starbucks because….. ooooh scary…. they really don’t like that. [PS – don’t bother linking to Starbucks Sucks because I think it’s been co-opted by the man!]
Flash fun from the bunny that grabs your cursor. And from my dear friends at B3ta comes Britney’s naked Cat-a-Phone!. Oh those scamps… I wonder which one was responsible for that idea?
If anyone can find me any kind of documentation on the differing treatment of the paragraph tag on IE for Macs and IE for PCs (with specific reference to CSS, padding and margins), then I’d really appreciate it if you’d mail me. And if you need an example – compare and contrast plasticbag.org on a Mac and a PC. This issue appears to be one of the main problems that must be solved before effective permalinking becomes an option.
Bizarrely lacking designs of our time Verisign can’t answer the question – ‘how do I renew my domain name’. This is particularly amusing considering the question they suggest you ask them…
So Amazon listmania has finally hit plasticbag.org – presenting The Best 4AD albums ever – the guitar years, by yours truly.
Like Haughey, I’m rapidly approaching my thirtieth birthday – and so, like Haughey, I’m fascinated by the Bill Keaggy: Age 30 project A different photo, each and every day, for his entire thirtieth year. Many of my friends have taken their thirtieth birthday as an excuse to get the hell out of the country. I’m thinking of doing this too – perhaps a trip to LA and San Francisco this summer? I could go and pay homage to the Blog Pioneers…