Month: May 2001
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Star Wars: Designer Edition. I love this! I’ve got the AT-AT as my desktop wallpaper. I’m also a fan of the new Millennium Falcon. (Link courtesy of usr/bin/girl.)
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The gold industry is reportedly “fighting back against a consumer preference for other precious metals.” Personally, I just think that gold is a bit… old, you know? It reminds me of old ladies. Platinum and silver just seem a bit younger and more modern. (The only thing gold I wear is my class ring, and…
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My favorite was the Scottish tartan.
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This Blogger situation is a bit ridiculous. It’s just gone down for the second time today. That settles it. Come Monday, I will be free. Oh yes, I will be free.
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“Is that your phone? No? Well it isn’t mine. Who the heck…? Oh, sod it, it’s a bird!”
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With everything, there are trade-offs. Sure, they’re putting open-air urinals in Trafalgar Square. But they’re also licensing classical musicians as buskers to play in Tube Stations. Maybe civilisation isn’t quite in the toilet just yet.
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Eeb’s definitely got me excited to see “Moulin Rouge”. (Well, I was already pretty excited, given that Ewan McGregor plays a lovestruck poet who sings Madonna songs, but at least now I can back up my enthusiasm with a critical review.) He also liked “A Knight’s Tale”, which every other critic has been crapping on…
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Gael found a great link today: the Douglas Coupland Dictionary. I’ve read all of his books, and I have to say Microserfs is the best. Girlfriend in a Coma is interesting too, if only for the constant references to nearly every song the Smiths ever wrote. (Oddly, none of the reviewers on Amazon seemed to…
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Bloody Blogger is down again. Now I’m stuck between coding my new weblogging software this weekend OR enjoying this. I guess I could always lug the iMac down to the backyard… 🙂
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Open-air urinals in Trafalgar Square. I repeat, OPEN-AIR URINALS IN TRAFALGAR BLOODY SQUARE. Animals in this city, I tell you. Animals.