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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.

Davo found an article (to prove a point to me) about the relationship between a couple’s perceptions of each other’s (and their own) physical attractiveness – [article]. When reading it, a few issues occurred to me – whether one can trust people to tell the truth, whether it is plausible to expect people to rate themselves or their partners honestly (particularly when there might be a difference in attractiveness between them) and whether or not the graphs representing changes in perceived attractiveness over time are more representative of generational differences than the development of any individual relationship. Read and ponder.

Today on Barbelith: Kevin O’Neill Part One | Part Two – The artist of Nemesis the Warlock, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Marshall Law talks dirty in the our extended two-part interview.

Recent Additions to the Mirror Project include: Mo Morgan [momorgan.com], Simon Pearson [simon.fneh.net], Tom Coates [plasticbag.org].

Calling Mason Lang: Could the person who sent me three tremendously wonderful presents off my wishlist – all of which arrived this morning – but neglected to leave their name, please mail me so I can thank you in person. It’s started off a difficult week on a really cool note.

Hmmm. I find myself strangely missing Ralph – who’s not posting on the Underground as much as he used to, is hardly posting to his site either. And he’s never on AIM. Things seem oddly flat without someone to bounce off.

12 places talking about articles at barbelith.com: The Null Device, beautiful MIDNIGHT, If Then Else, Virulent Memes, As Above, qwertyuiop, Come Back, shrapnel.org, Devil or an Angel, Minor 9th, OutSider, Blogadoon.

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that Josh from Big Brother has slightly alarming sticky-out teeth? I probably am. What a ridiculous thing to focus on, Tom. I can’t believe I’m saying it, but I’d rather have Brian. He’s just, you know, nice.