November 2003

An Excuse For Some Glamour

I meant to post this at the start of the week when it was topical. My dad used to think Bill Kenwright was a great producer. Charlotte used to think that Tennessee Williams was a great playwright. Judith used to think Ashley Judd was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. So that’s three people who […]

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Golden Girl

It’s proud Uncle Damian time now, so the rest of you can browse somewhere else to check out pictures of other Website owners’ cats. It was my niece Maisie‘s 1st birthday last month. I was at her birthday party and here are some photos I took with a second-hand lens that my brother-in-law Steve kindly […]

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Whodunnit?

Microsoft will offer a bounty of $250 000 to anyone giving information leading to the conviction of virus writers*. Someone on Slashdot pointed out that this was reminiscent of O. J. Simpson swearing not to rest until Nicole Simpson’s real killer is found. *Yes, I know I should use the phrase “worm writers”.

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The Curse of PooterGeek

First Robbie Williams really did declare that he wanted to retire within days of this post on PooterGeek. Now, after yesterday’s post, the Curse of PooterGeek strikes Britney. Don’t mess with The Poot, popsters.

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Heart-Shaped Tag

It’s the question every divorcing couple must ask: “Who gets the Beanie Babies?”. The answer: someone on Ebay. [I recommend you read the whole of the seller’s description to enjoy this surreal slice of Internet life fully.]

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Bad Hair Dictators

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I’m beginning to wonder if the Pakinstani and North Korean leaders’ unfortunate hairdos are just to hide the scars where Jiang Zemin has been messing respectively with Pervez Musharraf’s and Kim Jong-Il’s heads.

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Going Down

Google Zeitgeist is a cruel place. Every modern decline and fall begins on this page summarizing the current state of Web searches. The latest losers: David Blaine—number two declining query for the week ending 27Oct03 Manchester United—displaced as most popular football team search by Arsenal and Real Madrid Britney Spears—from most popular search on the […]

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Imperial Larder

Some “boffins” at my and Wiqqi’s other alma mater think they might have located a fat gene. Here’s the press release, the news story, and the science [the journal’s Website is currently overloaded again so you’ll have to be patient if you want to download the PDF of the original paper].

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Evil Or Stupid Or Both?

I am not going to link to the recent Guardian articles by Tariq Ali and George Monbiot about Iraq, just to the rather better and cleverer (Left-wing) ‘Bloggers who take them apart: Harry Hatchet and Norman Geras. Just as I cancelled my subscription to the right-wing Spectator because it continued to employ the racist, snobbish […]

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Positives and Negatives

Regular PooterGeekers have probably registered free for The New York Times already. It might be worth it for newcomers to do so too, so they can read its Onion-esque headline about the situation in Iraq today: “Despite Positives, More Negatives Are Predicted“ On Saturday night I went out to a “pirates and whores” party with […]

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Morality Play

This one’s a little higher brow than yesterday’s test of your ability to distinguish females from “shemales”. Butterflies and Wheels have recently added a new morality quiz. In exchange for five minutes of effort (and some finely Jesuitical reasoning) on your part they will tell you where you fall in their morality spectrum and point […]

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Yeah Yeah Yeah

One of the many lovely things about my sister’s wedding a couple of years ago was her choice of turn* for the reception: a Beatles tribute band called the Beat-Alls, a bunch of East Midlanders who turn into moptops for the weekends, duplicating everything from the vintage instruments to the accents. And “Paul” learned to […]

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