I used to visit the Lycos 50 pretty often just to keep my “finger on the pulse” of the Net. Now Google have developed their own version: Google Zeitgeist. It shows you search trends, popular searches, and comparisons of queries. Very interesting.

I’ve ranted about Victoria Hervey before, right? Well, she’s at it again. (Pissing me off, that is.) Apparently her trendy little Belgravia boutique was about to go under when it was rescued by a mystery backer. The resulting publicity means “Lady V” will be polluting the British media with her obnoxiousness for some time to come. Her shop – get this – “never orders more than two of any type of outfit, to minimise the chances of customers – who include Kate Moss, Jemma Kidd and Lili Dent-Brocklehurst – finding their clothes duplicated.” I’m glad that she’s, you know, providing such a service to mankind and all. *eye roll*

“More than 23,000 people at Rosenblatt Stadium gyrated, sang along and spelled out the title of the Village People’s hit song ‘Y.M.C.A.’ for more than five minutes on Wednesday, apparently setting a new [world’s] record.”
 
That’s bull. I mean, they played “Y.M.C.A.” at Wrigley Field when we were there in early June and everybody stood up and danced. There had to be more than 23,000 people there. This is a stupid record.

We survived the heat wave… only to be battered by thunderstorms. UK weather is NUTS.

I finally saw Shrek last night. I thought it was really good, but not quite as great as Toy Story 2. I dunno… I think it was the animation. I’m not saying that all animation has to be “realistic”, but I just didn’t particularly like this style. Everything seemed a little too smooth. The characters didn’t seem to have any weight to them. There’s a reason that Toy Story and A Bug’s Life didn’t feature very many humans – they destroy the suspension of disbelief.

Buffy Spoilers! There are some pretty big revelations in there, so read at your own risk. Of course, AICN‘s predictions usually run about 50-50, so take everything with a huge grain of salt. (Personally, I think the bit about Willow is ridiculous. No way they’d do that. Of course, they have completely changed her character before. Remember how she started out as the shy, Xander-lovin’ nerdy computer girl, only to turn into a hot, confident lesbian witch?)

Crud. Just noticed that the Dahl site is back up again. Come on liquidators!

CHECK IT OUT! Kabel New Media, who did the official Roald Dahl site, has gone bankrupt. Their crappy, Flash-ridden site is now history. Once again, I run the premium Dahl site on the ‘Net.

Looks like Saturn.org got the same crap “let’s trade links!” e-mail that I did. Ugh. It was from the webmaster at bransonshows.com (I won’t link to it, because that would defeat the point of my refusal.) I wrote the sender back and asked why in the world he thought my content would be interesting to wealthy senior citizens who enjoy RVing. He said, “Many of our visitors would like to read about others, so that is why I emailed you.” Apparently instead he should’ve responded, “I’m spamming every weblogger I can find in the hopes that they’ll mention me and it’ll drive up traffic at my crap site, so please help.” Whatever.

I’ve picked up Rodd’s Australian habit of calling English people “poms”. He’s always maintained that nobody knows why they use that word, but Nick always claims that it somehow stands for “Prisoner of His Majesty”. Fortunately, Snopes has an answer.