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My college room-mate has got engaged. I never know what to say in these circumstances except congratulations! Well done, Fenner, old chap. The woman’s clearly insane. I hope you’ll both be really happy!

I wish I was at the personal publishing response to the WTC disaster panel today. It would be interesting to hear what everyone had to say, and it would be nice to be able to give a perspective on the news from outside the US.

The Onion: God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule

Growing increasingly wrathful, God continued: “Can’t you people see? What are you, morons? There are a ton of different religious traditions out there, and different cultures worship Me in different ways. But the basic message is always the same: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Shintoism… every religious belief system under the sun, they all say you’re supposed to love your neighbors, folks! It’s not that hard a concept to grasp.”

Barbelith Underground has received 305,000 page impressions this month so far. That doesn’t include the webzine. Bandwidth is, however, stabilising – even if the board is not. Does anyone know of any good ways of maintaining the stability of a UBB6 board?

The sheer effect of the World Trade Center collapse on Manhattan’s buildings is brought home with CNN’s 3D map.

Late night lunacy from the mouth of Evil Michael, who seems to have declared war on frustrated bus conductors. All power to him.

From the sick minds at B3ta.com comes Kill Tom Coates. Interestingly, this post has nothing to do with Cal. Even though he’s really annoying. And stuff.

One of the horrors of working with Cal is that he keeps coming up with incredibly inventive ways of taking the piss. One such example is this, which effectively tracks precisely how much work I’ve done in any given hour. If he survives the week, it will be a miracle.

I started my contract at EMAP yesterday, which might explain the lack of recent entries. I’ll try and be better behaved today.

According to Peoplenews, Brendan Fraser is about to take to the stage at the Lyric Theatre in a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And he’ll be wearing boxer shorts. And little else. Not that I care, you understand. Nothing to do with me.