This article claims that Jakob invented spam, but I think that’s a bit silly. I mean, the concept of “unsolicited internet advertisements” has been around a lot longer than that. Wasn’t the first Usenet spam for a lawyer specializing in immigrant Green Card cases? I read that somewhere. Anyway, bitch about a stupid mistake Jakob made once if you must, but don’t accuse him inventing spam. He’s not that evil. (Link courtesy of Zannah.)

Scroll down to the Dirty Dancing bit. Seriously. You won’t regret it. (To this day, every time I catch that film on cable I can hear my college roommate Liz swooning over Patrick Swayze’s back. It’s that scene, you know the one, where Baby goes over to sleep with Johnny for the first time? And she, like, walks around him and grabs his butt, in what had to be the first cinematic exploitation of a man that I’d ever ever seen? Damn that’s a great movie.)

Congrats to Max on the house purchase. Although methinks you should have that chimney looked into. It’s generating a *lot* of pollution. 🙂

Happy belated birthday to Marcus!

We’re off to Oxford tomorrow, so expect a new entry on my Photos pages. Once again, I get to play Michael Palin to all you Yanks, showin’ you the sites of Europe. 🙂

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve added some new links to my list down on the left. In the process I suddenly decided I needed to alphabetize them. I know, I know, I said before that I couldn’t, but I changed my mind. I don’t want anybody to think that I’m ranking them by priority or anything, so this seems like the only fair way to do it. The new links are:

• esoterica non grata – I found Marcus’s page through a comment he left on my site. See, I told you that works!
• FOAF – He’s a Kiwi and I like his site. ‘Nuff said.
• Kitty Noir – Great name, great design, and check out that About page. Who wouldn’t want to read the weblog of a “recovering Goth”?
• Lucretia’s reflections – Another one I found through the comments that has gradually worked itself onto my list of daily reads.
• WackyBrit – I think the name says it all. I really like this guy’s design too.

If you’ve got some time to spare, check ’em out. 🙂

Yay, Indiana! People crap on my state, but I’m proud to be a Hoosier.

Some mouth-breather asks Cecil: “my question is, the song lady marmalade, what are they saying? is it in another language, or what???” His answer does not disappoint.

(I’ll admit, I always thought the “Gitcha gitcha” part was saying “Gitcha, gitcha ya-ya’s out, gitcha gitcha ya-ya’s here”. Ya-ya’s being slang for breasts and jollies, respectively. But the Iroquois explanation is much funnier.)

Wow. Britain’s gonna make all the major museums and galleries free of charge from December of this year. A lot of them already are, but some of the cool ones (The Victoria & Albert, the Natural History Museum, etc.) still charge admission. But not anymore!

I just made a new downloadable wallpaper for my Roald Dahl site. It’s tilable and it features the famous “dancing lady silhouette” from the intro sequence of “Tales of the Unexpected”. It’s probably a bit risqué to use at work, but hopefully people will like it.