Archive for October 2003

Finally, web designers’ favourite A List Apart returns, with a couple of particularly good articles on CSS kicking off the new-look issue. Ah, I remember when it was just a mailing list…

Can’t take any credit for Badger Badger Badger but it definitely gets the World of Badger Seal of Approval. Especially as, since I’ve given up smoking (one month today!), I’ve been doing similar exercises every morning as part of my new get less unfit regime.

And I find it kind of funnyI find it kind of sad…It’s a very, very mad world.

If I looked like the guys from the 118 adverts, I don’t think want to shout about it, let alone take them to court for infringing my trademark look.

Tigers belong:(a) On stage, where you can hit them on the nose with a microphone;(b) In an apartment in a 21-storey building in Harlem;(c) In the wild;
100 years ago there were 8 different kinds of tigers (subspecies), with over 100,000 wild tigers in the world. Today, there are only 5 tiger subspecies left and there [...]

Nicely done: the David Blaine Dress-Up Game.

Fuck me, Saddam must be shitting himself now that Bruce Willis has put a $1m bounty on his head. Following in Arnie’s footsteps, the bald actor has been visiting US troops in Iraq, playing a set of blues songs. Does this mean that he’ll also be running for office somewhere soon, or is it just [...]

From Baghdad Now, the official (psyops) newspaper of the 1st Armored Division, handed out free to Iraqis:
In a democracy, if you take any actions that actually threaten those in power you will be defined as violent and nobody will ever respect your point of view ever again, so be careful with the ‘freedom’ we have [...]

Aardman Animation’s (of Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit Oscar-winning fame) wonderful Creature Comforts has just started its own series of ten-minute programmes on ITV, and judging by the first one this evening, they’re going to be compulsory viewing. There’s another one on at 9.45pm tonight (Weds), and from then on they’re a Sunday evening fixture. [...]