Chocolate and Vodka

Quite possibly the best review of The Day After Tomorrow that I have read so far. Via Kottke.

One of the drawbacks of living on one's own is lack of extra hands. I have just managed to skewer myself with three large chunks of 2×4, and one small one. (Before you ask, I was ferreting about in the loft, looking for my years old INXS tapes (and before you ask about *that*, it […]

This rather good post will lead you to this rather good parody of this rather pathetic site by some rather humourless people. Thanks Tim.
I would comment further, but I'm rather knackered after a rather long day full of rather hard work and, (yay!) not that much IRC.

The Guardian, one of the few UK publications to understand blogging, is to launch a new games blog.
The blog, which will be available from Monday 2 August, will be written by Aleks Krotoski, former presenter of Channel 4's “Thumb Bandits”; Greg Howson, Guardian Online's games reviewer; and Keith Stuart, the mobile gaming expert. It will […]

A small but perfectly formed MP4 video for you. Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture and the Creative Commons, Helsinki May 04. Ta for the heads-up, Joi.

When Carl Linnaeus started classifying plants and animals in his taxonomic Systema Naturae, he inadvertently gave birth to two new groups of people: Lumpers and Splitters. Lumpers are the sorts of people who look for similarities between things and group them according to what features they have in common. Splitters look for differences and create […]

I wish I had a waterproof computer and wifi in the bathroom. I seem to get lots of ideas whilst in the bath or shower which often cut short said ablutions so that I can go and write stuff down before I forget it. Maybe I need some sort of voice-activated dictation machine. Or an […]

Dw i'm yn sgwennu yn Gymraeg, felly dw i'm yn meddwl yn Gymraeg, felly dw i'm yn sgwennu yn Gymreag.
Mae gen i lyfr: Pwy Sy'n Cofio Siôn gan Mair Evans. Mae'n dda iawn - dw i'n mwynhau sgwennu Mair - ond dw i'n wedi bod yn trio darllen y peth ers tro. Dw i'n darllen […]

I've spent too much time on IRC lately. Since I upgraded my OS and lost use of my second monitor - a loss that hit me hard because I'd only just got used to it - I have found that my IRC habit has increased to unacceptable levels. It's therefore not a surprise that I […]

I am delighted to announce that I have been invited by Hylton Jolliffe and Stowe Boyd to join Corante's growing staff of writers and journalists. My new blog is called Strange Attractor and I'm going to be writing about blogs, social tools, e-learning, storytelling, journalism and anything else bloggish that rattles my cage.
Corante is home […]

Lamington: A type of Australian sponge cake - usually pink and frequently served with a cup of tea over which bored housewives will engage in conversations with little or no informational content, but with the metacontent 'Hey! Look! I'm not dead yet! Yay me!'.
I learnt to use the word lamington to mean 'meaningless chitchat' when […]

I'm just not gonna be able to follow that Shatner post.
Instead, I shall be a terrible tease and say that exciting news may or may not be due on Monday.
Although I don't think that really cuts the mustard, but hey, you can't be breaking the big story of the week every day.

Vince writes a good post about language and property that's worth reading over on Dragon's Fandango. Vince is one of the most intelligent, talented writers I've met, and I'm really glad that he's started a blog. Just wait til he gets his book finished, is all I can say.

Just been watching the feed from the BlogOn 2004 Conference at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. For some inexplicable reason, the powers that be chose to stream the new product demos (many of which just weren't even vaguely new), instead of the panels held in the other room. Whoever made that call needs […]

I need someone who is fluent in written Cat to write me two signs, one which says “It does not matter what you do, I am not getting up for at least another hour”, and another which says “Please remove your tail from my nose. Thank you.”
And no, locking them in the kitchen/out of my […]