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More mentions of Barbelith and comments upon the various articles: Richard’s Dish takes on Harry Potter and Capitalism.

Cool news of the day – Barbelith has been picked up by Moreover.com via Grouse as a Cool Site.

Tremendous thanks to Ashley! If you want to see what I’m on about, check the cam (the yellow/orange bullseye above). I will be wearing it all day as a statement of my allegiance to the highest cause in the land. Independent content-publishing….

Quick thanks to Fran for sending me the URL of politicalcompass.org – a site which aims to estimate your politics not only on a left-right spectrum, but also on a libertarian / authoritarian axis. Based on +/- 10 on both axis, I emerged as Economically -1.22 (centre-left) and Authoritarianly -6.86 (heavy leanings towards libertarian politics). I am therefore relatively close to the politics of Simon Hughes and Charles Kennedy.

Today on Barbelith: Execution USA – “Think you’re safe? Maybe you are. Nixon wanted to have all war protesters classified as traitors. Being a traitor is punishable by death. That was 30 years ago.”

I got an e-mail from a friend this morning who said he’d stumbled upon a whole range of galleries of Bristol’s gay life. I lived in Bristol for over six years so there are a few (although surprisingly few) familiar faces. The weirdest thing is the ‘blast from the past’ stuff – when I look at pictures like this one and remember that I had a bit of a thing for the guy on the far right, but that I turned him down after months of chasing because he’d been dancing all night and was too bloody sweaty. I must have been mad.

“Isn’t there – can’t there be – more to living than hard work and families?” Louise Holden “I never thought I would live long enough to see a Labour government treat asylum seekers so disgracefully, attempt to restrict the right to trial by jury, make policy to appease rightwing newspapers and worship at the altar of private participation in public services. Please change your ways to recapture the excitement and anticipation of 1997. Ms J M Lynn You should be ashamed that old duffers in the House of Lords prevented the repeal of Clause 28. Jilly Woods

For more comments – some insightful, some objectionable, some merely wonderfully rude, check out the full
Guardian piece.

I hereby declare the excellent Radiohead to have been renamed “The Down-Beatles”, and Thom Yorke to be “John Lennon on Helium and Methadone”. I expect these quotes to adorn Radiohead posters within the next week”.

Very funny insight from davezilla – bored of Fucked Company?, then check out FuckedWeblog – described by Haddock.org as the bonfire of the vanity sites….

If you get bored and wish to promote your site, then the best thing you can do is get yourself over to Webmonkey and read their article on Search Engine Optimization. It cuts through a lot of the bullshit and snake-oil and gets right down to the heart of the matter – producing relatively effective search engine placement by concentrating on being clear and honest, rather than trying to bluff the spiders. Very much recommended introduction to a difficult subject.