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More fun fantasy Apple gadgets: the iPad.

They’re back, and this time it’s the Second Annual Bloggies. They’re currently taking nominations. Last year, plasticbag.org won a couple, making me “Best European Poof”. Which was nice! But I wrote less dull crap then, so with any luck this year, someone more deserving will go home with the huge stigma of caring whether or not they’re popular and end up being pointed at by friends at the pub and softly mocked.

Having said that, of course, it wouldn’t be sporting if I didn’t encourage my readers to vote for me. I mean – it would surely be a pyrrhic victory if people felt that all their contemporaries had already abandoned all claims to the throne. So please, feel free to nominate plasticbag.org for any or all of the following: Best European Weblog, Best Designed Weblog, Best Big Poof (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered) Weblog and Weblog of the Year.

Could the iWalk be the next Apple big thing? PS. Don’t believe the hype [Noticeable weirdnesses include discrepancies between colour and black and white screens, the fact that you never see the pen touching the screen, the fact that the text looks like it’s been sharpened in some way, the fact that the buttons and jog wheel are so different from the iPod, the sheer boringness of the product, the fact that very few menus are shown flying around (which would be the first thing you would want to get a video of, but would be hard to render). Etc. etc.]

Finally I have Office working again, which means that I can actually do some work. Hurrah.

The Weakest Link with drag queens. Whoever thought that up isn’t getting paid enough!

Brief answers only this morning – my throbbing head can answer all, but my fingers are incapable of typing… 1) To TomH I say, It takes seventy-three licks to get to the centre of a Tootsie Pop. And for the other question… What do you mean? An African or European swallow? 2) To Nik I say – If I could be anyone else in the world, I wouldn’t want to be William Shatner. And the entity which occupies the Shatner body chose him because he had a thing about hairpieces. 3) To Hewligan I say, I have thought about trying to write a couple of novels, but I’m really lazy and disorganised so I can’t imagine it will ever happen. I’m not going to tell you the plots, just in case they’re not crap, but they are called respectively “My day in hell” and “Prank”. 4) To Vaughan I say – you can’t ask three questions
– that’s taking the piss! So you get very small answers with no explanation – 1985, 2004 and because he’s very witty and dresses well. 5) To Paul I say – I have no sense of smell, I’m afraid – strange but true – so I will have to go with “burnt plastic”. 6) And to Tom Cosgrave, the answer to the question, “Why oh why can’t we all take it easy and enjoy ourselves in life and stuff?” is because Niezsche was right and Epicurus wasn’t.

The yearly Fray New Year Special is upon us once more. Twelve stories for twelve months. And you can post your own stories as well. You can see mine here.

Another New Year’s Eve survived.