Category: Random

He’s the god who coding my crap ideas up and called it Barbelith and the god behind many of today’s leading web projects (some secretly – some not so secretly). And now he’s been interviewed. I present Cal Henderson.

Of course it was all my idea. There we were on the interhighweb – chatting (as is our wont) about his plans to make something truly wonderful using nothing but green paint, tin foil and the leaves of a banana tree. But I said, “No! Why do you waste your time with these things? They are as flotsam. Make me instead an AIMbot that can search Google.” And he did.

Trailer campaign: What is Blogroots? [Left-to-right: Hourihan | Bausch | Haughey]

Are you feeling adequate today? Not too many crushing self-doubts? Able to look at yourself in the mirror without collapsing? Then what you need is Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age. Guaranteed to make you realise how bloody pointless you are. Meanwhile, if you want to know what the Queen Mum accomplished in her long, rich and incredibly privileged life then go see this particularly fine flash tribute to her. Guaranteed to make you realise how bloody pointless she was.

During my short life, I have not found many reasons to want to go around Meg’s house and smack her on the back of the knees while wagging a long bony finger at her. But I think this picture may have finally pushed me over the edge.

Did you know you can now post to Blogger (or at least Blogger Pro) via e-mail?

It has been mooted recently by a lot of your more fashionable pundits that the web just isn’t as interesting as it used to be. I had this discussion with Matt Webb just the other day, in fact. He swore blind that there was no longer anything interesting on the web. Well he was wrong. And I’m going to link to fucking loads of things today to demonstrate exactly how wrong a man can be…

Street Pornography
It’s probably not quite what you think it is, but it’s still awfully good. A collection of captured streetlife – fast, unfocused, weirdly composed (if composed at all). Atmosphere is everything.

Mork and Mindy
Mork calling Orson, Come in Orson. This is Mork calling Orson – complete with cheesy music.

Plague
Bored by life? Wish you were dead? Live in London? What a shame you didn’t live there in 1665 when you could have been one of the 100,000 people killed off by the Great Plague. Channel Four have all the charnel knowledge…

Jim Bowen 2001
If you’re British and in your mid-to-late twenties or above, then Bullseye star Jim Bowen probably occupies a very very special place in your heart. Particularly if – like me – a weekend stay with your grandparents as a child involved a heavy dose of ‘nothing in this game for two in a bed’ on a Sunday afternoon…