Category: Random

Today’s anthem:

Gonna make my move, gonna make it stay!
Gonna make it last, never mind the past,
Living for today!

Gonna take my chance, gonna rock and dance!
Gonna hit the ground with a brand new sound,
Looking for romance…

Hey, hey – you know what you want me to say
Right, right, fight, fight,
We can start a glorious day!

Glorious children on my mind, glorious wastings of my time,
Glorious plans we make up, forcing things in line…

Gonna rock it out!
Gonna scream and shout!

Gonna do it right!
Standing in the light!
Perchin’ on the clouds!

When the BBC rebranded themselves as BBCi, they also relaunched their search facility on bbc.co.uk. They made it look something like this:

At the time I wasn’t very impressed by this arrangement and made myself fairly unpopular by mocking up a couple of cheap and easy alternatives:

That’s all…

Via Interconnected.org: Hofstadter’s Law: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

So Jason yet again tries to show the rest of us up by producing a totally practical, well-fashioned and elegant new design for Romenesko’s Obscure Store and Reading Room. It’s not revolutionary, but it’s beautifully simple. He’s truly dispicable and he must be stopped.

I’ve been ploughing through some of Mark’s old weblog stuff hidden away on The Wayback Machine. I miss gems like this:

“Top 10 Ways to Write Good
10. Avoid alliteration. Always.
9. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
8. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
7. Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
6. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
5. Don’t abbrev.
4. Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
3. Who needs rhetorical questions?
2. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
1. Stamp out, abolish, eliminate and avoid unnecessary redundancy.”

“William Shakespeare’s middle name was Colin! Ok, that’s a lie. But that’s the point! What a great idea… Lie of the Day! Every day, a new lie!”

I’m fascinated by the way that the Guardian Online’s editorial team’s weblog only writes about Apple products. Speaking of which, I’ve just seen my first iPod in the flesh, and while it wasn’t quite what I was expecting, it may actually be better. It’s smaller than I thought it would be, more fun, slightly weirder looking though. Lust is mine.

So today is “Buy Nothing Day” – the third such event that I’ve been weblogging during. This year it has quite a stunning ‘uncommercial’ associated with it: Buy Nothing Day. I’m definitely pro-Buy Nothing Day – I’ve been a supporter of No Logo-style politics (to a large extent) for a substantial period of time now. Interestingly though it didn’t stop me last year, when I reported that the purchasing of a DVD player on such a day simply increased the terrible thrill of purchasing – that addictive high was all the more satisfying because it was illicit.

And Secret Santa is now #1 on Blogdex. Very exciting. Join up, you bastards!

Those damn kittens with their evil, evil minds and staring lunacy – creeping up on me in the night and blowing hot breath on the back of my neck, making me sweat and making my eyes dart around in their skull cage. I hate them all… Kill Kill Kill.

Secret Santa makes Metafilter.