Behold: Tom’s Excellent Javascript Snow: unobtrusive and customisable javascript snow for web pages using no images! If you’re looking at this directly, rather than through an RSS aggregator, you should see it falling now. Unless, that is, you’re watching this…
Re:Link Suggestion
I shouldn’t really get wound up by this sort of thing, but I sometimes get almost reasonable sounding requests for links or link exchanges, but what really gets my goat is the implication that they’ve been actually browsing through my…
Bill could allow creation of half man half beast
This may sounds sensationalist, but it is in the online Bedfordshire on Sunday so must be true. I’m not sure that the “half man half beast” creatures are the ones that were conjured up in my mind- wild men like…
Friend has weblog
Andy has started a new weblog called Philosophical Transactions of the GPSOE*. Go and read it for it shall be excellent. His first post is called Godzilla and Beaker investigate the credit crunch and explains why the current financial crisis…
Library diversification
Scaryduck suggests that libraries would make ideal arenas for paintball, a move which would help to give the staff greater feelings of empowerment: For, and let’s be perfectly frank here, there’s nothing Miss Peabody, who has sat meekly behind the…
Newsworthy pun
A classic pun from the BBC today. I do hope it is intentional. The headline was: Five arrested in joint operation Predictably, the story went on: Five people have been arrested and drugs with a street value of £1m seized…
Two visions of Hell
Here are two visions of hell to ponder. Firstly: I never particularly hated school or anything, but the strapline on the latest Trutex catalogue we got from our son’s school did frighten me a bit: It’s term time all the…
Thoughts on the Eurovision 2008 second semi-final
The second Eurovision 2008 semi-final was somewhat disappointing after the first one. It got off to a reasonable start with Iceland’s stock Eurovision entry and, after the inexplicably popular Swedish entry, seemed to be getting strong with Turkey’s very good…
Thoughts on the Eurovision 2008 first semi-final
Some thoughts on last night’s Eurovision 2008 first semi-final in Belgrade which was, generally, very interesting. The outfits made a fairly strong showing, especially with leather worn in a scantily-clad style, although Slovenia decided to be more chaste with all-over…
On stopping reading books
I normally don’t like stopping reading books- I even made it all the way through Labyrinth by the implausibly named Kate Mosse- but I knew I’d run into trouble on p. 9 Matthew Reilly’s promisingly-titled Seven Ancient Wonders where he…