Tom and Manuela, yesterday.
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Because the Slayer’s gotta eat…
The Edible Buffy: Because the Slayer’s Gotta Eat
“There are already a bazillion Buffy sites on the Internet, some specifically devoted to episode synopsis and analysis, the stars, the villains, and even the show’s philosophy. I figured I’d make my site slightly less redundant by exploring a heretofore untouched aspect of BtVS: the food.” [via linkmachinego]
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What's happening at Pyra?
Follow-ups on the situation at Pyra from: Matt Haughey, Metafilter, Meg Hourihan, Jack Saturn, Peter Merholz & Plastic.com. Also: Jack Saturn’s resumé.
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Use Newsblogger while Blogger is down…
This is just a note to say that those of you who are frustrated about not being able to get through to Blogger.com should try posting through Newsblogger, as it appears to work OK.
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All is not well at Pyra…
Newsflash from Pyra
“It’s probably become obvious to the careful observer that all is not well in the Land of Pyra. Rather than wait for the public speculation and debate, I’m going to say what exactly is going on (from my perspective — not speaking for anyone else on the team or as an official Pyra/Blogger representative). We found out last Friday that the one most people on the team were hoping for was not going to happen. This took the wind out of the already limp sails people were surviving on, and it was largely decided we couldn’t keep this up.”
And the best weblog maintained by an Old World Poof goes to: me… I can get some work out of this, right? Congratulations to Zannah as well as all the other people who participated. In the words of an Oscar winner, “they like you, they really like you!”. But remember, as the Golden Globes are but a prelude to the Oscars, the real battle is still to come. Remember at all costs: plasticbag.org for most banal content!
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Suicide by milk…?
I got home from work last night at about seven with press copies of Buffy and Angel to watch, some tomato soup, ten lucky-dip lottery tickets and the prospect of two episodes of Sex in the City. Enjoyment of same depended, however, on the presence of my flatmate Mella to keep me company. At nine she still, resolutely hadn’t turned up, so Meg and I popped down the boozer for a girly vodka and tonic, game of pool (she beat me) and many many fags (note to Americans – wash out your mind). After which, and having returned to the flat, I watched the most depressing ten minutes of Sex in the City ever, contemplated drowning myself in milk as a way to pass the time, played the Pixies and Veruca Salt really loudly, finally watched TV with flatmate between midnight and two am, and find myself (this morning) un-rested and over-bloody-come with hate towards the builders hitting things outside my window.
A really cheeky comment from the people behind Salon:
New Site Hopes to Stay Unspiked
“O’Donnell said Salon can afford to ignore the British market for now. “We just didn’t see the revenue or user base,” he said. “There’s no business for content in Europe. England’s not that big to begin with. I just canceled a meeting there. Why waste the time?”
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Scroll to the bottom…
Oh now, that’s just really nice. (Scroll to the bottom).
Imagine, if you will, a healthy body. Now introduce two types of foreign elements – lets say bacteria and viruses. I’m now going to bastardise their life-cycles horribly. Bear with me.
Viruses need to spread to other bodies before either the immune response of the body finds and kills them, or before they kill the body and are trapped within it – but whatever their evolutionary strategy, they cause damage to the organism concerned. Bacteria on the other hand are more varied beasts. Some bacteria are horribly damaging and can kill creatures, while others have formed symbiotic relationships with their hosts, and can fulfill such functions as aiding digestion. The latter form of bacteria may have an evolutionary advantage over the former, as will the organism that they inhabit.
Now imagine that we are not talking about organisms and their genomes, but instead ideas – memes. Let’s pretend that the body is a huge and highly fertile environment for memes – the internet. And now let’s consider analogies between e-commerce ventures (dot.coms) and the two bastardised life-cycles I have described previously.
The internet was essentially an environment free from commercial ventures until six or seven years ago, but when the memes were introduced, they flourished immediately. The question for many people was what would these memes do to their host? Would they act in a viral fashion – spreading themselves and gradually damaging it, or destroying it (leaving no room for other memes and leaving an interesting discussion about whether the memes would survive a leap into a still other form of quasi-organism), or would they become the grist that aided the internet’s development – gave it an advantage to flourish and develop.
Interestingly enough, for the last couple of years, no one really discussed the possibility that they might simply lose the evolutionary struggle under pressure from hundreds of thousands of millions of other memes born directly from the internet itself:
The Museum of E-Failure
“We call this digital compast heap “The E-Failure Museum” – a multi-megabyte collection of screen capture files documenting the home pages of 120 commercial Web sites that didn’t make it.”