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I can’t believe that I didn’t notice that boylog wished me Happy Birthday on the 19th. Thanks!

Just discovered that barbelith (and I) are all over Jason Kottke’s site today. Which is a really strange feeling. It’s stirring up a lot of weird resonances in my head. Part of me is clearly delighted: Jason’s site must get ten/twenty times the traffic I do. If he mentions me, then more people come and read my stuff.

But along with that is a slight feeling of foreboding – almost dread. I don’t really know how to explain it. It’s a pretty bloody strange reaction (maybe it’s because I’m drunk). Part of the foreboding comes from him bringing up the stuff about the starting of the meme again – a situation which resulted in a few arguments around the place between myself and prominant web luminaries. Arguments which I would really rather forget.

But I think the weirdest thing about it is that I have only ever been mentioned on kottke.org in passing (to my recollection, at least) – and I think that was a pretty brief, incidental mention at that. This time … I don’t know – it’s like Icarus getting too close to the sun. Part of me has in my mind that line from Greek Tragedy: those whom the gods love die young…

I’m still getting images for the headline competition. Keep them coming.

“Minors Refuse to Work After Death”
[Meg Pickard | notsosoft.com]

The BBC is known for it’s high editorial standards and the supreme quality of it’s reporting. This being the case, could someone please explain this article on Big Brother UK: “Third time unlucky for Caroline”.

• Quote One:
   “The results of a poll conducted by phone, to be announced on Friday, will decide whether Caroline or 30-year-old computer consultant Thomas will be the third person to leave the Big Brother house.”
  Quote Two:
   “Anna, Caroline, Darren and Nichola voted to kick out 31-year-old computer consultant Thomas.”
  How old exactly is young Thomas?

Good god. I can’t believe it. Mark seems to have got his whole family writing weblogs now. Some favourite quotes follow:

Momblog
“I try to keep track of what is going on in Mark’s life by reading his blog but sometimes that’s not a good idea because reading what his says often makes me want to do any one of a number of different things, such as (1) Call home immediately. (2) Call Ted immediately (3) Hop on the first plane home to Connecticut. (4) Call 911.”

Blogging on Riothero
“Thanks to my poll, I learned that someone’s sister, named beth, has a crush on my brother (probably because of the nakedness on his webcam). So I send him email asking if he knows beth. His reply:
‘no, i don’t. but i go to the strip club on
saturday nights, i usually don’t
ask them for their name. i just say, ‘do me,
bitch’ so maybe i do, but
probably not.'”

Okay, I admit it, I could probably cope with winning an Webby…

Another headline:

“Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy”
[Neale Talbot | wrongwaygoback.com]

Keep reminding yourself:

It’s only a gameshow, It’s only a gameshow
It’s only a gameshow, It’s only a gameshow
It’s only a gameshow, It’s only a gameshow
It’s only a gameshow, It’s only a gameshow

The headline competition keeps getting new entries. Two of them particularly appeal to me:

“Include your children when baking cookies” [Brad Morse | 120degrees.com]

“Prostitutes appeal to Pope” [Meg Pickard | notsosoft.com]

Young Katy has scanned in the article from newmusic which talks all about weblogs. Congratulations to eatonweb and kottke as well – there’s something really cool about being in print…