Your free-to-air channels tonight:
The Cloning Channel
Old documentaries copied from other channels. (Formerly UK CheapLoans.)
Clone + 1
Special version of Cloning Channel for people watching with their own clone.
UK Cod
Previously unseen colour war footage from 1975, plus recipes. Nudity: YES. Violence: PARTIAL. Vinegar: SOME.
Snow
Random pattern of grey dots. (Analogue only after 2006 or 2008 or 2010.)
Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Your free-to-air programmes tonight:
7.30 - 8.00 Going for a Thong
A panel of celebrities guess which piece of underwear belongs to which celebrity, and how much it would fetch at auction
8.00 - 8.02 Whose line is it anyway?
A panel of celebrities snort at the week’s news
8.02 - 4.00 Scrapheap Challenge
A panel of producers tries to assemble a programme schedule from a pile of clapped-out celebrities and creaky formats
7.30 - 8.00 Going for a Thong
A panel of celebrities guess which piece of underwear belongs to which celebrity, and how much it would fetch at auction
8.00 - 8.02 Whose line is it anyway?
A panel of celebrities snort at the week’s news
8.02 - 4.00 Scrapheap Challenge
A panel of producers tries to assemble a programme schedule from a pile of clapped-out celebrities and creaky formats
Friday, November 29, 2002
Business doesn't get any more exciting than this:
Chicago Tribune, 27/11/02
CHICAGO -- McDonald's Corp. is planning to intensify the price war -- and attempt to boost U.S. sales -- by adding the grilled flatbread sandwich and a chicken nugget meal to its new Dollar Menu.
Several Chicago franchisees and owner operators said they plan to add the grilled flatbread sandwich to the Dollar Menu in January, while Los Angeles-based operators said a five-piece McNugget meal is scheduled to be added next week.
Chicago Tribune, 27/11/02
Hungry? Me neither.
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Bulletin for friends of Cupcake Canasta:
The domain cupcake.com is still frozen. Network Solutions, now part of Verisign, disabled the domain in February 2002 without issuing any notices. They won't reply to my communications. My ISP, who is listed as technical and administrative contact, won't do anything. Still nothing from any court in any land suggesting that the domain's ownership has been disputed. No trace of a dispute in any of the arbitration bodies' listings. Computer Weekly in the UK published my letter about the situation in November 2002.
The full archive of Cupcake Canasta is still available at www.cupcake.co.uk.
The domain cupcake.com is still frozen. Network Solutions, now part of Verisign, disabled the domain in February 2002 without issuing any notices. They won't reply to my communications. My ISP, who is listed as technical and administrative contact, won't do anything. Still nothing from any court in any land suggesting that the domain's ownership has been disputed. No trace of a dispute in any of the arbitration bodies' listings. Computer Weekly in the UK published my letter about the situation in November 2002.
The full archive of Cupcake Canasta is still available at www.cupcake.co.uk.
Monday, November 25, 2002
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
The house used for external scenes in "The Good Life" (U.S: "Good Neighbors") is in Northwood, Middlesex, not Surbiton. It was up for sale in March 2001, though I don't know how much it went for.
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
All these domains are taken:
yada.com
yadayada.com
yadayadayada.com
yadayadayadayada.com
But not this one:
yadayadayadayadayada.com
yada.com
yadayada.com
yadayadayada.com
yadayadayadayada.com
But not this one:
yadayadayadayadayada.com
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
Monday, September 30, 2002
You can't go to "Rainbows" until you're five. (And I think you're supposed to be a girl.) So I think I'll start a club called "Little Grey Clouds".
The uniform will be grey. You'll be encouraged to take your pre-schooler along, where they'll sit on the floor and cry and/or wee for an hour. The group's leader will be known as "Cumulo Nimbus".
The uniform will be grey. You'll be encouraged to take your pre-schooler along, where they'll sit on the floor and cry and/or wee for an hour. The group's leader will be known as "Cumulo Nimbus".
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Practicing Free Love of Books
Bookcrossers read 'em and leave 'em for strangers to enjoy
By Susan Carpenter
LOS ANGELES TIMES.
The Los Angeles Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper.
September 17, 2002
If you happen to find "On the Road" at a gas station or "Who Moved My Cheese?" next to a hunk of Gouda in your grocery store, it might not be an accident. You could be the unwitting beneficiary of a "bookcrosser" - a person who intentionally leaves books in public places, hoping they will be found by strangers.
And, if you really want to make the day of the person who left it, you will not only pick up the book and read it, you will log onto a Web site and let the bookcrosser know.
The idea of leaving a book for someone else to find and enjoy is not new - some folks have been leaving just-finished books in airports and on buses since the dawn of hurry-up-and-wait. Creating a system for book-leavers to find out what happened to those books adds a new twist to the practice - and raises the stakes. Would you rather be known as the person who left behind a steamy Danielle Steel novel or the magical realism of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
Something of a phenom among readers with a taste for mischief and a touch of altruism, bookcrossing.com, the Web site that tracks books "released into the wild," has accumulated more than 18,000 members since its inception last year, and averages 112 new participants daily.
Its members have scattered more than 42,000 novels, self-help books, memoirs, technical manuals and biographies in 45 countries, leaving them in public rest- rooms, movie theaters, coffee shops or anywhere that tickles their fancy. The result: a worldwide living library.
Robin Payton, a St. Louis homemaker, has let go of more than 400, mostly in self-service laundries and restaurants.
Peri Doslu, a Santa Monica, Calif., yoga instructor, has dropped three - one on top of a telephone booth, one on a rock wall at remote Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, and another in one of the studios where she teaches.
"I'm always looking for places to pass on books," said Doslu, 39. "To think my book's going to go off and have this future, and I might even get to know a little bit about it down the road, I really find enchanting."
Enchanting? This called for a test case.
I signed on and logged in, giving myself the screen name MissPaigeTurner, then registered four novels. After receiving identification numbers for each, I wrote them on bookmarks that explained how bookcrossing works and placed them between the pages of each book. I spent the rest of the afternoon looking for spots to leave my books.
My first drop was on the bus I rode downtown in Los Angeles: I left Lemony Snicket's "The Bad Beginning" on the back seat. A few hours later, I dropped Iceberg Slim's "Mama Black Widow" on a sidewalk. Next, I stopped in at Banana Republic, tried on a shirt and left a copy of "The Nanny Diaries" in the dressing room. Later, I stopped at a coffee shop for a lime rickey. After downing the last slushy bits and looking around to make sure no one was watching, I put a copy of "Madame Bovary" on the table and made a quick exit.
No one ran after me to say, "Hey! You forgot something!" No one looked at me as if I were the Unabomber. In my mission as the phantom book leaver, I was, as far as I knew, completely unobserved.
I checked my e-mail the following day, expecting to find a message from the Web site telling me my books had been found. No such luck.
Ditto for the following day - and the next two weeks.
I still haven't heard a peep.
That's typical, said Ron Hornbaker, a 36- year-old software developer from St. Louis, who came up with the idea for BookCrossing's Web site. Only 10 percent to 15 percent of the books people release are "successful," meaning they have been picked up by a stranger who then logs on to the site.
My books might have had better luck if, when registering them, I had penned a release note for the Web site, giving "hunters" details on which books I'd left, where and when.
That's what Lydia Ruark, a West Los Angeles psychologist, did when she released "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" in a Nordstrom dressing room in May. Within a week, she received an e-mail from BookCrossing.
A Canadian woman, who had been with her daughter trying on clothes, found the book. Twelve hours later, Ruark got a second e-mail, saying her copy of "The Lady and the Monk" by Pico Ayer had been found in the sushi section of a Wild Oats grocery store.
"I thought I'd hit the jackpot," said Ruark, 49, who signed up for BookCrossing because "it sounded fun and a little bit subversive."
Half of the fun for bookcrossers is figuring out where to leave the books, said Hornbaker, who left his first book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," in a deli. His ideas have since evolved.
Now he's reading Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," which he plans to "throw out the window to a hitchhiker."
The Los Angeles Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper.
Copyright © 2002, Newsday, Inc.
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Sunday, August 04, 2002
Need to look in a hard copy archive for this:
07-02-99 The Sunday Telegraph Review, p.4. Our Lady of Surbiton by Leanda de Lisle.
http://www.catalyst-uk.freeserve.co.uk/art_rc.htm
07-02-99 The Sunday Telegraph Review, p.4. Our Lady of Surbiton by Leanda de Lisle.
http://www.catalyst-uk.freeserve.co.uk/art_rc.htm
Mr de Menezes gave up his job as banqueting head waiter in a London hotel and started to study theology. According to Mr Kelly, ‘He’s taken to theology like a horse to oats.’
from Our Lady of Surbiton
from Our Lady of Surbiton
May 2002 - Divine Innocence: Some Concerns
Perhaps the most persistent local 'apparition' of recent times is that of 'Our Lady of Surbiton.' Operating as the Divine Innocence Trust, it has been the subject of many reports in the secular press over the years, including a very sympathetic article in The Spectator early this year. Its founder, Patricia de Menezes, lays claim to 2,000-3,000 followers in 42 countries. Patricia alleges that around 1984 she began seeing the Virgin Mary and Jesus in a pine tree located in a new housing development in Surbiton, south London, where, she says, Our Lady continues to appear to her at 12 noon Monday-Friday and 9pm on weekends. She also claims to have been personally catechised by Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2002/features_may02_bonus_1.html
Perhaps the most persistent local 'apparition' of recent times is that of 'Our Lady of Surbiton.' Operating as the Divine Innocence Trust, it has been the subject of many reports in the secular press over the years, including a very sympathetic article in The Spectator early this year. Its founder, Patricia de Menezes, lays claim to 2,000-3,000 followers in 42 countries. Patricia alleges that around 1984 she began seeing the Virgin Mary and Jesus in a pine tree located in a new housing development in Surbiton, south London, where, she says, Our Lady continues to appear to her at 12 noon Monday-Friday and 9pm on weekends. She also claims to have been personally catechised by Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
http://www.christianorder.com/features/features_2002/features_may02_bonus_1.html
The Virgin Mary is appearing every day in Surbiton, just south of Kingston upon Thames, the Spectator said on January 12. "Only Patricia the visionary" can see her and Patricia de Menezes said that the apparitions began "in all sorts of places" in the mid-80s. The first took place in her home. The Archdiocese of Southwark issued a statement that the "authenticity of the alleged apparitions has not been accepted by the Archdiocese of Southwark, and the Archdiocese has not given its authority to publicly promote it."
www.udayton.edu/mary/news02/20020125.html
www.udayton.edu/mary/news02/20020125.html
Thursday, July 25, 2002
Monday, July 08, 2002
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Thursday, June 20, 2002
Early 21st Century Runes, #1
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How a modern-day Powerpoint presentation is displayed on a prehistoric copy of Powerpoint. Yes, I know there's a viewer, and I use it. But somehow I think that most Powerpoint presentations could be reduced to this enigmatic collection of characters without any real diminution of meaning.
It's kind of zen, isn't it... The more you look at it, the more beautiful it is. That plus/minus sign thing is a stroke of genius.
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How a modern-day Powerpoint presentation is displayed on a prehistoric copy of Powerpoint. Yes, I know there's a viewer, and I use it. But somehow I think that most Powerpoint presentations could be reduced to this enigmatic collection of characters without any real diminution of meaning.
It's kind of zen, isn't it... The more you look at it, the more beautiful it is. That plus/minus sign thing is a stroke of genius.
Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Hmm. A book you simply can't pick up.
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Paranoia : Title Deleted for Security Reasons
by Edward Bolme (Paperback - February 1993)
Avg. Customer Rating:
Out of Print--Limited Availability
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Paranoia : Title Deleted for Security Reasons
by Edward Bolme (Paperback - February 1993)
Avg. Customer Rating:
Out of Print--Limited Availability
Friday, May 31, 2002
Thursday, May 30, 2002
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Thursday, May 16, 2002
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
Sales tactic of the day
I offer a no fee cancellation service, the customer can cancel at any time without penalty. This makes clients who are not 100% sure book with us. Once they've booked, they tell the kids and then can't back out. It would be a brave parent who spoilt their child's birthday party by cancelling the bouncy castle man.
Shark-Attack Barbie Sighting
"No, no! I didn't want the 'Fun in the Sun Barbie' with the sunburned skin, I wanted the 'Fun in the Sun Shark-Attack Barbie' with the bite marks on her surfboard."
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
At a business meeting in a Bloomsbury hotel today, I noticed that one of the bars has been branded as the Virginia Woolf Brasserie. I'm sure dear Ginny would have hated this, although it looked like the sort of place she could have got decently depressed in.
I suppose there's an EM Foster's pub nearby, hopefully with a function room called A Room With A View.
I suppose there's an EM Foster's pub nearby, hopefully with a function room called A Room With A View.
A lawnmower believed to have been the inspiration for one of Philip Larkin's last published - and best known - poems has become one of the most unusual additions to the University of Hull's archives.
Archivist Brian Dyson said it was likely the machine was the one Larkin was using when he accidentally killed a hedgehog, which inspired the poem, The Mower, published in 1979.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,712893,00.html
The world eagerly awaits publication of the Larkin/Amis letters, which will detail Kingsley's protracted loan of Phil's mower during the summer of 1954. Sources close to the volume's editors say that Amis angered Larkin by using the mower to write the first chapter of Lucky Jim, which he did on a very large field near Leicester.
The incident prefigures Sylvia Plath's tragic experience with a strimmer in 1961.
Monday, May 13, 2002
So many books to read, including:
Knitting With Dog Hair : Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet
by Kendall Crolius and Anne Montgomery
by Kendall Crolius and Anne Montgomery
Synthetic avatar-artists for the nu century, and the product they will shift:
Billy Blogg and the Blogheads. The blard of Blarking wins The Weakest Link and releases an album of Ian Duvet covers.
In Our Ties with Melvyn Blogg. The scientist-licking talking head discusses the death of dress-down Friday, with special reference to the Lake District.
Blogney Spheres. A randomly updatable collection of polygons guaranteed to confuse dads everywhere.
CW Bloggs. The character nobody much remembers in the movie Bloggie and Clyde publishes his thoughts during a blood-soaked tour of the more out-of-the-way states of the Union.
Why don't companies have straightforward names like Edwin Drood and Daughters any more? And why don't more of them use simple tag lines that tell you something about what products and services they actually offer - like Microsoft: Family Butchers of Distinction for example.
And when oh when will some go-ahead community rename their city Greenspan?
And when oh when will some go-ahead community rename their city Greenspan?
What I really want to do with my life is to get on some really interesting medication, and then talk about it all the time. I'll hang around various newsgroups with my elbow on the bar and post stuff about my meds. Like: I was on Bovopopor for six months but it was giving me a sweaty mouth - so I changed to Agfrapopor with a chaser of Loopinol - which was way better than Hegenpegen but nowhere near as effective as Tea.
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