This is about 40% bollocks [Personality Test]:
“Like just 4% of the population you are an ARTIST (DIAF)–creative, adventurous, and deep. Although you are an introvert, your dominant ideas lead you to assert yourself often–especially through your work. You actively put your creativity to constructive use, and because you are ruled by your heart you are less likely to be inhibited by logic. “
Joanna Lumley – goddess of the New Avengers, star of innumerable sub-par movies and chain-smoking high-class drunk skank of Absolutely Fabulous used to be heavily involved in a site called clickmango.com – a kind of semi-alternative health and beauty site. Unfortunately, earlier this year, said site closed its doors, proving the long-suspected fact that celebrity endorsement does not guarantee the success of any e-commerce venture.
But at least she kept her sense of humour. In a statement posted at the site’s “We’re closed” page, Joanna presents the eager public with what must be one of the most bizarre and humourous PR statements ever. Next to a picture in which Joanna is vigourously rubbing herself with a large fruit, she declares:
“Heigh ho! It happens all the time in the theatre world. The dressing room, now filled with first night cards, pictures of the family and your familiar costumes, is soon bare, awaiting its new occupant – the playbills outside are torn down, scenery stored, programmes pulped and the theatre goes dark. But what fun! And what a fantastic time we had!” [Joanna Lumley says farewell from Clickmango.com]
Another really brief snippet from BBC News: “Web is ‘not quite as dull’ as the Dome“:
“The majority of those surveyed, 62%, thought that the phrase dot.com was wearing thin and even more, 66%, did not want to hear any more stories about 20-something millionaires who have made their money with the web.
But the boredom was not due to lack of interest. Over 77% of those questioned said they could not live without it.
“For many people the internet has become indispensable, it’s as much a part of everyday life as the telephone, television and video,” said an MSN spokeswoman, “It’s no wonder people are bored with hype around the internet – you wouldn’t want to talk about your vacuum cleaner in the pub.” “
The BBC reports today that there are reports from the United States that scientists have started to clone endangered species. Weirdly, the animal they decided to experiment with was an Asian guar, which they have named (rather entertainingly) as “Noah”. All this is well and good (although I must confess slightly bizarre), but their next project has thrown up some interesting (and amusing) problems. I quote directly from the article: [Endangered species cloned]
“The paper says the same team, from biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in Massachusetts, is already considering cloning giant pandas.
The closest related species to giant pandas are rabbits and racoons but neither are ideal as potential surrogate mothers because of their size. “
Mark’s done a redesign, which is nice (very nice in fact), although it includes a picture of him that makes him look about as camp as a pink feather boa. Which is amusing. Make your mind up for yourself, over at riothero.
Good god, that hag has gone and done it again! This time she’s mentioned in an article on the Guardian’s website: [“It’s as easy as falling off a weblog”] and in a one-and-a-half page spread in the Online supplement – complete with screenshot. Lots of people are mentioned. I’ll get it scanned in and up on the site as soon as I can.
Lunchtime quiz at work: “Are you a Fab Four fanatic?” produced these results:
Only one result left to come…
The redesign at Netscape.com – designed to make the site look much like the soon-to-be-finally-released new browser – is, I fear, quite bad.
You can see that they sat down initially and thought, “Let’s make this simple, elegant and powerful”, and then somewhere along the way the simplicity was drowned in poorly laid out information, while the elegance started to look less like graphic-design restraint, and more … well, dull. I’ve only heard, so I couldn’t say for certain – but it looks like pretty much the same process has taken place in the development of the browser.
Anagram of Thomas Coates: Tea Hat Cosmos. Thanks to Meg for that one…
An extraordinarily savage and funny article in The Onion reads:
“Thus far, Benson has picked up several new skills outside of the bounds of his job description, teaching himself how to change toner cartridges, un-jam paper trays and replace the jugs on the office water cooler. He has sent out five separate intraoffice memos offering tips on how things could be done more efficiently, and has even brought homemade cookies for “the whole staff.”
“He should get cancer,” said Janice Mulroney, who two years ago, in recognition of her 20th anniversary with Williams & Broderick, received a gift certificate good for dinner for two at a local Red Lobster. “Every day I curse this hellhole.” “