Author: Tom Coates

Turning the tables on DSR: a selection of search terms used to find their site, according to their stats page (5.10pm GMT): long dong silver, LITTLE NATURIST, Pokemon Porn, haemorrhoids, the shit files it’s just a of shit, sexy iranian, pictures of horses (check this one out) and Almost nude.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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]

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.

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.

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