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Thanks to Meg and David for coming up with an in-joke so obscure that we will surely be hounded to death by clique-busters for the rest of our lives. I will confess to it being very amusing – at least to me…

For those Americans amongst us, here’s a very bad preview to the movie Snatch, which my flat mate worked on and which really is pretty damn good in places. Go see it.

Yesterday afternoon was spent dozing through my second visit to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and having weird conversations with Meg and David. Is this what the future holds for me? [Pics: Tom, David]

So the biggest news of the day is that yesterday morning I handed in two months notice at my job as Production Editor at timeout.com citing as a reason that there was no longer space for me to take my role forward in a direction that I was comfortable with. I wonder what I’ll do now. [Thanks to: Humanlint, Prolific and Meg for wishing me luck.]

A few quick links: musekick.BLOG uses stylesheets in a fashion that somehow looks harmonious and elegant despite using a substantial variety of different line-spacings, font sizes and the like. It reminds me of some of David Carson’s typographic work in a weird way. Proto-web god Grant Morrison releases his latest memeflood into the etherica. Speaking of which, I didn’t realise that Network Solutions were now selling one year domain registrations, or that their pricing structure had changed, or that they were now selling the .tv domain [more] as well (etherica.org is available to buy).

Pixelflo launches Web Trumps – a new Top Trumps style game where you can play with your favourite web celebs, down-at-heel webloggers, and gods like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Based upon Dan Hon’s Blogtrumps, I am delighted to add that I have my very own card. The whole enterprise is a great laugh, but it does bring up issues regarding the nature of web celebrity, and its disconnected, “clumpy”, community-based nature.

Let’s say, for example, that I ran two sites (I run several more, actually, but that’s not the issue). Both have very different subject matters. Both have received about the same number of page impressions at various points. The two are not connected in any particular fashion. In both communities (weblogger / fan) the site that is relevant to them are well known, while being completely unknown to the other community. At this point you have to ask yourself about whether all communities are equal. Because of (often) our industry connections, do webloggers have an unnaturally significant impact / public image as opposed to other communities on the net? Are we, in fact, more equal than others?

Appeal for help: Does anyone have any idea how to use Jabbernaut? I installed it on my G4 today and it doesn’t seem to actually do anything it is supposed to. Can you help me? [Addendum: I have had very helpful e-mails from prolific and joannou.net saying that they can’t figure it out either. This software is not recommended.]

The thing I love about Mark is that he’s not afraid to express his opinion. Which in my opinion, you know, is probably a good thing.

“this whole “server fund” is really about raising money to bail jack saturn out of jail. how can i prove this? i can’t. but i most certainly believe that the folks at pyra, such as ev and meg, have deliberately slowed blogger down to a crawl as an effective scheme to raise the money for their pal.

“instead of paying to support the massive number of blogs there are.. we shall take this as an opportunity to take eradicate the abhorrent infestation!

“i am building an army of judges, email me if you’re interested. we will divide up alphabetically, on a mission to read every single weblog in existence. we will judge the blog worthy of continuance. if the weblog does not meet our standards, the creator will receive a polite email mentioning, “YOU”RE STEALING all the fucking BANDWIDTH. TAKE DOWN YOUR FUCKING BLOG! IT SUCKS!””

So I went to this birthday party last night at an Indian restaurant near Buttock, having left Twattenham Court Road at about 6.45pm. On the way back I had to decide how I was going to get home. Should I take the Central Line and change at Oral Circle, or the Circle Line and change at Onion Terror. In the end I took the latter, and finally arrived home at Maiden Vulva at 11.30pm.

Sorry for my childish behaviour. I’m afraid I am currently completely overwhelmed by the incredibly funny, and yet almightily rude and offensive altubemap, orginally discovered by linkmachinego. I wonder how many of these names our American cousins will even understand.