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I’ve recently been exorcising the lamoid sci-fi geek within me with a regular dose of Farscape, but now the series is over leaving me with no quality space-trash to glue myself to except for ancient re-runs of Star Trek featuring a young and eminently spankable Wil Wheaton. And that’s not spankable in the good way. What will I do without the space-opera of Crichton and Aeryn? And will we ever see Crais and Talyn again? Or indeed the rest of the crew of Moya? Or in fact is our hero doomed to float in space forever with nothing but his leather trousers and some NASA industrial lubricant for company?

Every link every posted to iamcal.com is here. You know what would be useful? A kind of bridge site between a link and its destination that redirected you to the most recent archive on the Wayback Machine if a request hit a 404 page…

A quick answer to a regular question (most recently posed here) – permalinks on plasticbag.org have been removed temporarily while I try and figure out the best way to implement them within the constraints of the new design without resorting to table tags or making it all look ugly. I am also hoping that Blogger Pro will shortly have a permalink-by-day feature, which I would prefer to use…

The last 48-hours has seen the most extraordinary weather battering the UK. Even safe in Maida Vale, the windows have been rattling and clunking around in the frames. I’ve made it a mission to go out as little as possible. God knows what it must be like in more exposed areas. When I visited my family over Christmas there was an extraordinary gale blowing – the noise was incredible – and the huge trees in the garden leant and creaked. On the ground it was almost completely still, but you still had a sense of the sheer power of the storm. I don’t think there is another weather phenomenon more likely to make you feel at the mercy of huge forces beyond your control…

The best thing about the Anti-Bloggies is the rules.

Must have MP3 of the day is “Jesus was Way Cool” by King Missile:

Lyrics:
Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did.
He turned water into wine
And if he’d wanted to..
He could have turned weed into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetimines
He walked on the water
And swam on the land
He would tell these stories
And people would listen!
He was really cool.

Vain attempt to exploit current interest in plasticbag.org: Tom is currently looking for permanent employment in the London area, particularly in the editorial and structural development of online publishing ventures and/or online communities. If the nice people from the community department of the BBC are listening – I’ve applied for one of your jobs and I’d really like it.

I’ve been resisting looking at Something Awful’s Children’s Books feature for a few days now, but finally succumbed this morning. The first page is fairly amusing, but they rapidly improve. Sick, twisted comedy horror for the B3ta generation. [via Interconnected]

Seven years after his disappearance, the family and friends of Richey Manic refuse to have him declared legally dead.