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This David Carson isn’t the same graphic designer at all as this David Carson, yet they are both graphic designers and should both be slightly alarmed by this fake David Carson machine.

So that lovely Firda lady set up this ridiculously entertaining piece of fluff quiz which determines who is your weblogger twin. I feed in all my information, and apparently I’m just like Ernie. After that, I’m like Firda herself. And only then do I even resemble myself. Some people outside my top ten include: Jason, Matt, Meg, Zeldman and Ev.

Of the things I had to do today, sleep for three and a half hours in the afternoon wasn’t one of them. Neither, indeed, was sort out my clothing into two piles: ‘regular wardrobe’ and ‘bit manky’. Neither indeed was talk to Matt Haughey about meeting Katy at Fray Day (which was way more fun than the sleep and the clothes-sorting even if I did get a bit jealous). Best wishes to everyone out there – I wish I could be with you…

Must see download of the day comes via Ain’t It Cool News – the new TV trailer for Lord of the Rings.

Question of the moment: Davo has been back from holiday for four or five days now. So when is brainsluice.com coming back online?

The Observer meets David Furnish, Elton John’s partner. On Madonna: “The last time I saw her, she came down to the house in Windsor and brought the baby and Guy, and it was a really nice, everyday visit – she was lovely and friendly and down-to-earth – but I felt like a dork. Still, God, I hope that never ends. I don’t ever want to get jaded or blasÈ.” [link]

I’m plugging this heavily because it’s worth reading:
Barbelith: The Autopsy.

Stargate SG1 reaches it’s 100th episode and there may be a movie franchise emerging from it, and then a spin-off series. This was another TV series that followed the standard Tom interest curve, whereby the first series is dipped into grudgingly, declared crap and then thoroughly enjoyed a couple of years later, just when it’s impossible to catch up with what’s been happening up to date. The only other model is the Poof and Slag model, whereby the first series is watched diligently, desperately seeking a laugh, before giving up and desperately praying that the series will just end.

I have become nothing more than a Meat Interface [MI] for repurposing weblog content. Which is nice in a way, because it seems that it doesn’t matter how I mark up my writing, I can still write once and web/meat publish anywhere…

“Traditional paper has largely survived the test of time but now it is facing a new challenge from its electronic equivalent. Electronic paper has been one of the technology world’s holy grails for more than two decades and the prospect of using it as a substitute for the real thing is closer than ever. ” [BBC News] No one seems to have the slightest idea what to do with electronic paper, unfortunately.