Thanks to the guys at comp.lang.javascript I think I might now have a new cross-browser approach to the random weblog link button. Here it is: Surprise me. Give it a go and let me know if it doesn’t work for you. [tom@plasticbag.org]
I want to do a site that’s just like fray.com only kept for only really disturbing / sick stories. Nothing heart-warming. Like stories of the first time you felt even slightly sexual in your life or who you’ve fucked over most appallingly. Pill popping, wrist-slashing, stories of human depravity. Now that would be interesting.
There was a photo a couple of days ago on the front page of the Independent newspaper with the Cambridge Rugby team on it. I don’t suppose anyone could scan it and send it to me, could they? I’m trying to win an argument with a friend. [tom@plasticbag.org]
It’s a sad, sad day for the weblogging community:
beebo.org: Sorry.
Sorry–the “Metalog” and “Metalog Ratings” pages are gone, and they won’t be back for the foreseeable future.
8pm: I’m taking a quick break from the party because of some bizarre crushing gut complaint. I’ll go up again in about ten minutes. In the meantime, using the “follow a random link” bookmarklet, I decided to do some random weblogging. So here are five links that are five random links away from Yahoo!:
Tonight is the Time Out Christmas party. Last year I managed to be savaged by everyone in the advertising department, embarrass myself in front of this bloke whose presence now raises nothing but ire and get frustrated and aggressive while waiting for a cab [last year’s entry]. This year it’s held in the office (they ran out of money) and I have the terrible feeling that the level of debauchery will be substantially lessened. More later.
“Hello, my name is Tom. I will be your host for this evening. I am so utterly clueless, that I have for the first time today noticed that Nikolai produced an MP3/parody version of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” a couple of months ago in which plasticbag.org was mentioned. I would like to apologise for my lax behaviour, and I promise to try and do better over the coming weeks.”
Somewhat unfairly, my fellow English webloggers (no names mentioned) consider me obsessed with the size of my stats. This is despite the fact that I decided about six months ago to stop even getting stats for plasticbag.org, a resolution I only broke thirty days ago in order to check that, y’know SOME people were still finding their way over here. 30 days: 15,000 page impressions. I’m turning off the counter now. I’ll have another look in six months time.
Finally someone has capped the whole AmIHotOrNot.com series of parodies. If you are bored with (deep breath) , AmIKottkeOrNot, AmIGeekOrNot, AmIGothOrNot, AmIMonkeyOrNot or AmIPresidentOrNot then now is the time to get down to fairvue.com for Nikolai’s epic AmIAGoodParodyOfAmIHotOrNot.com?
I’m in the middle of working on a button that people can come and click on which will just take you to any one of the various links from the last four days of plasticbag.org. At the moment it doesn’t work on all browsers (and if you have any advice or solutions, let me know), but you can test it out here if you’d like: surprise me. [One of the (many) browsers that this doesn’t appear to work in is IE5 (not 5.5) for PCs. Sorry!]