Tuesday, May 20, 2003

LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE BLOGGING

Yorkshire Soul is a nature lover: "...there is something deeply primal about forests, I love being alone amongst trees, even more than I enjoy the solitude of the high moors along the Pennines." He was on the golf course.

Random silliness at gromBlog: "Just been sticking photos from Planet of the Apes into one guy's passport as he's off to Barcelona on a stag-do"

Fortean type news over at Incoming Signals: "Six canisters of worms that were aboard the space shuttle survived the Columbia disaster—even better, so did peace."

Char* from Brisbane is penniless until June: "i'm in a miserable state of bankruptcy. am surviving on raisin toast and the sinful nutella spread for meals."

You won't get a Matrix review from me (haven't seen the first one), but lukelog has one: "So. The Matrix Reloaded. What did I think? In brief: it sucked. At length: it really sucked."

Howard Owens says: "...going to see The Matrix. Did that last night. Good movie. The special effects are ungodly. The fight scenes are stunningly beautiful ballet. High art. The story is compelling. The dialog less so, but not as bad as some critics make it out to be. The music is boring and predictable." Howard also lets off steam on Palestine: I responded.

The Small Issue answers Howard (indirectly) as well: "The terrible suicide bombings in Israel, condemned by all civilized people, are a symptom of a greater crime being perpetrated on the Palestinian people and we see very little of this in the West, where in the Arab world, the cost in lives and bulldozed homes is regularly presented in every grim and distressing detail."

Nick got away with this: "the Top 100 books from the BBC's Big Read campaign have been announced. Is it just me, or do large parts of that list just seem to be there to confirm Sturgeon's Law?"

"...news that the first international conference dedicated specifically to Moblogging is to take place on 5th July this year." from one smart banana. (Moblogging=mobile blogging)

Rhys asks: "Guess what happened to me today?" He lost his ATM card.

Scrag Ends has one of those apocraphyl stories about being taken to court for a £0.00 bill. "In March, 1999, a man living in Kandos (near Mudgee in NSW) received a bill for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00."

jIm has been rambling. "Megaliths, stone circles and ancient ritual landscapes have always been an abiding passion."

"David Wiskus gives new meaning to the term "working lunch." The Denver tech-support worker installed a program on his Handspring Visor hand-held that allowed him to manipulate the screen on his office computer from a booth at a local diner. As he lingered for hours over burgers and fries, he could actually open windows and move documents around on his screen via the hand-held -- creating the impression to anyone who walked by that the diligent Mr. Wiskus had just stepped away from his desk." Shirk ethinc at the Wall Street Journal. Hmm, wonder if the guy at Glaxo is a shirker?

Hair today..."A 14-year-old boy was suspended from school for sporting England football captain David Beckham's new haircut." BBC News in not quite Reithian mode.

"The origin of the carrots remain a mystery however." Who said nothing ever happens in New Zealand?

and finally...(or not?)

Arseblog on that match: "Cup final alcohol intake = 11 cans of beer, 3 whiskeys. Please don't expect anything insightful, coherent or anything spelled correctly."

:: Posted by pete @ 13:04