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Book meme
Via absinthecity and others ( Read more... ) -
Ever been ad?
I'd like to ask your advice. No, not you. You. That's you in Oxfordshire, that is ( Read more... ) -
The nonsense of an ending?
I’ve just finished watching the third season of Heroes. I enjoyed it, but various things about it - and about Lost (I’ve yet to see season five of that, though), and other contemporary TV shows, make me ponder about narrative theory. As one does.
One thing that’s really noticeable about these series is their reluctance to let characters die. In ( Read more... ) -
Sterling work
There are some enjoyable web comics about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace here, here and here - even includes a coupla Gaussian copula gags (and for aficionados of the game of Horse!: representational horse!).
Originally published at hatmandu.net. You can comment here or there.
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Living the dream
As far as I can see (oh, see here and here for comments from people in my flist, or posts by julietk, to whom apologies for my scepticism), the only reason why any of us here are getting Dreamwidth accounts (myself included) is to cybersquat our favoured usernames just in case it takes off/all our mates migrate to it ( Read more... ) -
Fighting the day job
Wow. My Twitter personality test site, Twanalyst, has been used 150,000 times since I launched it just four days ago! It’s all pretty overwhelming, especially as I’m trying to concentrate on a shedload of ordinary work at the moment… Anyway, thanks to everyone who’s used it and helped spread the word.
I’m genuinely working on new features for it, ( Read more... ) -
The patron saint of procrastinators
A single blog post by one person I admire greatly, John Crowley, about another, Coleridge, has brought back in a rush all the haphazard things I love about the latter (and it turns out I’ve written briefly about them both before here). Crowley quotes some of this passage:
You have not above 300 volumes to write before you come to it- & as you write ( Read more... ) -
Thinking inside the box
vigornian has made some good comments about the whole social media/malarkey. Having engaged in the debate on Facebook he mentions, and tried very drunkenly and probably unsuccessfully to explain Twitter to Paul and Craig last week, I feel the urge to explain why I like it so much ( Read more... ) -
Thanks ants. Thants
OK, so you love or you hate Twitter. I have six accounts so far, so you can assume I'm keen. Also, you may have different views on the celebs in Twitter thing.
But I am quite chuffed that Peter Serafinowicz has started following my daily crossword clue, entirely unbidden my me - I didn't even know he was on Twitter. I shall celebrate with a pint ( Read more... )