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So yesterday I couldn't call outside the 020 area. I thought that was because there was something wrong with my phone. The cable does look rather tattered. But today I used the phone that belongs to the flat, and still couldn't make any calls to mobiles, nor dial into the important conference call in Bahrain ( Read more... )

A California student mashed up Wikipedia's records of changes made in its articles with public records of who owns the editor's IP addresses. The results are pretty interestingAmong the culprits reported by Wired's readers using the new tool are Church of Scientology, the Episcopal Church, Chevron Texas and Al Jazeera. Diebold, Exxon Mobile and Dow ( Read more... )

rm sums up beautifully why I'm disenchanted with LJ and Six Apart right now. Add to this their continued official support of pro-ana communities and their role in the breastfeeding icons debacle.

Interesting reading in this context is the shortlived blog Exposing LJ Abuse, chronicling the, umm, interesting decisions made by the LJ abuse team. It ( Read more... )

As expected Metaquotes had a ball with the passing of Jerry Falwell. One nugget was this, presumably fictional, IM conversation.

A coworker drew my attention to Salon's interview with Tinky-Winky sparked by the same occasion.

People think loftier thoughts in rooms with high ceilings according to a University of Minnesota study.

Photo of a red ( Read more... )

Great article on recovery by Caille Millner, using Gavin Newsom's recent foray into "rehab" as a starting point.

Suzette Haden-Elgin shares her method for writing both fiction and non-fiction in fifteen-minute snippets

The City of San Francisco and the Northeast San Francisco Conservancy are proposing to protect trees vital for the survival of ( Read more... )

It's 7 July, one year later and I'm nervous about going on the tube.

Yesterday on the train into town two regulars argued. One of them is a known trouble maker. He has apparently been banned from his home station in the past. He's the kind of person who immediately sets off my alarm bells. Even in winter he dresses in only shorts and he looks straight at people in, what is meant to be, an ingratiating way. Yesterday ( Read more... )

And the winner of this month's Gross-Out Award is: What not to eat (over your keyboard) on ZDnet. I also liked the photo at the top of the LifeHacker article that linked to it. It would be a hit over in saucygardens.

I just noticed that there's spit on my living room window. :-(