Ha! I’ve done it! I’ve burnt the whole thing to the ground! Watch as I dance around in the ashes. Watch me skip and bounce – oh so happy! oh so happy!
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Author: Tom Coates
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Star Wars in Lego…
The entire Star Wars trilogy re-enacted in Lego. It’s like a childhood dream come true. Still makes my heart race a little…
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On more ICANN idiocy…
ICANN idiocy, yet again. Rather than go for the more logical approach (as far as I can see) of dividing new TLDs into large types of site (my suggestions would be .kids, .gay, .news, .xxx, .info to start off with), which allows for the possibility of companies with the same name but working in very different businesses to co-exist on the web, ICANN are pretty thinking of replicating the current categories of the web, with a couple of minor additions. [via metafilter]
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On Regional Metafilters…
The whole Metafilter discussion has taken a couple of interesting turns in the last hour or so. Firstly, prol suggested a rationale for the suggested europe.metafilter.com:
“The common language would be English. This would mean only people who write good English would be inclined to post. And then it would be elitist. Which would start a cat fight. Just one of the delightful scenarios possible. What we need is a Universal Translator.”
Then, I had an incredibly interesting conversation with Nikolai. He started off suggesting that a European Metafilter might get over the language problems by having a place in the preferences for each user where they could specify what languages they would want to see and which ones they would want to post in.
The main problem for this from my point of view is that it still causes problems about reading about other countries. Would an Italian writing in English really be something that people in Helsinki would be interested in reading, let alone people in the UK? So then it came to us in a blinding flash. Maybe what we need is not more regional metafilters, but a more evolved filtering mechanism on thet metafilter we’ve already got! With options in the preferences for reading posts filtered according to language and country, then there is no real need for separate metafilters at all.
You could be an Frenchman, living in the US, interested in reading posts about France and America but only if they are in French. Or an Englishman living in Holland, interested in reading posts about both countries in both English or Dutch. It’s just a question of showing or hiding posts. Whether or not it’s technically possible of course, is another matter entirely…
[This has been reposted to Metatalk for further discussion.]
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The next UK weblogger meet
The next UK weblogger meet is this weekend in Cambridge, but another one is being proposed for next week in London – I’ve been fighting for Maida Vale as a venue, but that’s really only because I live there. If you want to keep up to date with what is being proposed, then meets.gblogs.org.uk is the place to be.
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The Guardian comes up with
The Guardian comes up with yet another quiz designed to show up your inadequacies as a human being. This one even has the snappy title: “Are You Dumb?“. More designed for the English than for Johnny Foreigner, my department at work has managed to score as follows:
- Tom: 32 (of 38)
- Dean: 33 (of 38)
- Matt: 34 (of 38)
- Rebecca: 35 (of 38)
How do you measure up?
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I just want to reassure
I just want to reassure people that at no point in the past did I write a book called Creating a Self-Portrait.
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Have you heard of Extenuating
Have you heard of Extenuating Circumstances? No? But you’ve heard of Daily Doozer, right? Daily Doozer was always a great read – bloody ace weblog. Well. Dan wrote DD, then took a break from weblogging and came back with Extenuating Circumstances. Anyway – seems to me that a lot of the people who loved the Doozer don’t even know about the new site, which is a crying shame. So get your arses over there now, or I’ll come around your house and kneecap your pets.
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On creative etymology…
Notice the similarity in pronunciation between these two words: “Homey” (as in homeboy, contemporary American street-slang) and “Omi” (old gay palare for man). Palare had a word, “omipalone” (Oh-Mi-Pal-Oh-Nee) which was a combination of Man and Woman (“palone”), and which at the time meant something along the lines of “poof”. Creative etymology leads me to posit the creation of the word “Homey-Palone”, referring to the almost non-existent phenomenon of the “Gay Gangsta Rapper”. [research from Quinion]
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In the spirit of resistance,
In the spirit of resistance, here are a couple of snippets of important information from adbusters.org.
First comes the event that should be de rigeur for every intelligent, creative weblogger – the Creative Resistance Contest. You have until December 1 to produce a poster, performance, spoof-ad, storyboard, video or anti-logo. I’d like to append this advert with a personal appeal to Jason Kottke to submit the parody ads that he made last year: Simply Porn.
Secondly, international Buy Nothing Day is fast approaching (Nov 24th). Give yourself an opportunity to think about the “shop-till-you-drop” imperative before the consumer glut of Christmas. I’m thinking of taking to the streets that day, holding banners outside major London shops. Anyone with me?