Category: Random

“Hey kids! Come over here! No really – I’m not disturbing at all! My overcoat? Yes I know it could do with a wash, but I wouldn’t say it’s a ‘dirty mac’ as such. Oh, all right then, ‘mucky’ perhaps, but certainly not dirty… Anyway – have you heard the word on the street? Oh, you’re in for a treat, my little petals. Have I got something for you. Forget smack, skag and crack – this is the future. The current thing is ‘fables’. All the cool kids are doing it. No, I don’t need counselling. Hey! Where are you going? Come back! I’ve got some ecstacy as well… Darn it!”

Damn it. I’ve done it again. This time Matt Haughey wants me dead [On Regional Metafilters]. All I can say is that I’m really sorry, Matt.

“I think that we should be thankful that people care enough about Metafilter to suggest these ideas as ways of enhancing something they respect rather than wandering off and setting up something in opposition. I think that speaks buckets about the sense of community, integrity and the amount of respect that we all feel for what Matt has accomplished.”

Another Tom design project: Time Out / FT Shopping Homepage.

Meg starts an appeal for someone to do a site:

“… devoted to the tracklistings of popular compliation albums (I’m thinking specifically here of 80’s faves Now That’s What I Call Music… and Superchart.”

I completely second this – I’ve been looking for something like this for ages, with absolutely no luck whatsoever… Tell you what – if any of you have any of these albums at all (80s only please for the moment), mail me and I’ll compile a list.

Does anyone have Now That’s What I Call Music 9 or an album called something like Hits 6 from the same year? Or alternatively an album released which was called The Greatest Hits of 1986. They all came out around in the UK around 1987/8 and I’m trying to replicate them in MP3 form so that I can relive a strange bit of my adolescence which I’d forgotten all about. If you have a tracklisting somewhere, mail me.

Please excuse the redesign. I’m really just mucking around, trying to find a calm centre to build stuff around. I’ve had such a weird weekend – had a couple of arguments, a couple of “calm discussions” (ie. arguments where you’re not allowed to shout), travelled to Oundle to visit my younger brother, got delayed on the trains, got rained on for a bit. I’m spending more money than American presidential candidates. Weekend over. Now I need a break…

The post beneath this one is extremely badly written. This is due to me writing it while frustrated and at nearly two in the morning. Apologies to anyone who was expecting my normal degree of coherence.

Perfect solution to the whole metafilter language debacle has been provided by Phil over at gyford.com with this perfect quote:

“Love the filtered language/location idea, but I’d hate to program it myself 🙂 One simpler solution would be for all the English-speakers TO TYPE VERY LOUDLY, CLEARLY AND S.L.O.W.L.Y. That should help. (It’s a *joke* dammit.)

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!

The entire Star Wars trilogy re-enacted in Lego. It’s like a childhood dream come true. Still makes my heart race a little…