Category: Random

Post-Napster, I find myself increasingly obsessed with filepile.org as a source of random mp3’s to experience.

The BBC presents an article on GW Bush’s European tour. This is a fascinating article, particularly as it shows up the differences between American and European culture. The section that interests me most (and which I agree with) goes like this: “The fact is that the new president is not of the same political culture as most of his European ‘friends’. And I am not talking here about a simple difference between a largely social democrat Europe and a conservative United States. The differences are wider and more unbridgeable. Europeans look at Bush as a proponent of the death penalty (which they regard as uncivilised) and an opponent of abortion (which the Swedish hosts of the summit regard as the right of any woman). They, particularly the Scandinavians and the French, see in Bush the worst kind of America – insular, uncultured and ignorant of the world.”

The decision to spend all day at home has led to me having had a frustratingly tedious day. I’ve accomplished little, built nothing, talked to almost no one. I did some washing up. This is my contribution to my planet. This is the radicalism of my my late-twenties.

Today on Barbelith: Division X in a nutshell – Of all the fiction suits in the world, someone had to put together the grittiest London cops and the feyest dandy of the crimefighting world, and call them a team.

There’s a fascinating site full of Blogger hacks and trouble-shooting advice over at archives.blogspot.com. Regulars may have noticed my own trouble with archives recently. These should be resolved shortly.

From a year ago this month – see pictures of me, Katy and Evil Nick poncing around for the Mirror Project: KatyTom & Evil Nick. I look way fat.

Laziness is not an excuse.

Available finances: £3.62. After consultation with my colleagues, it has been decided that this money should be spent as follows: £3 on National Lottery Lucky Dip tickets, 2 packs of mini-Mars bars. This provides us with a budget surplus of 2p. We are considering ways of increasing revenue to the party to fund an uncoming number of ‘having fun’ initiatives.

Considerable information is now being released on the sunked city of Heracleion that was found in the Nile Delta last year. Makes for fascinating reading.

Today on Barbelith: Kevin O’Neill (Part Two) – The artist of Nemesis the Warlock, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Marshall Law talks dirty in the second part of our interview.