"Tell you what Bimbo83 if you streak 10 mins before the game V Millwall (1 st home one of the season) in front of the Rookery then at half time we will go down and beat the craaaaap out of Brian at half time*.
How does that sound??"

25/7/02 - More news on the new Mountain Goats album.  Even better news, the Mountain Goats will tour Europe in October!  We want dates and places people.

25/7/02 - My Hotmail address received the grand total of 189 junk mail messages overnight.  287 were from the same address.  Do I really want that much free porn?

23/7/02 - The BBC news site has gone and made some very annoying changes. It now forces you to pick either a UK or World version of the site.  As the UK version will undoubtedly be more Big Brother rubbish, it's the world site for me.  (Maybe the email I wrote them will shake them to the core.)

22/7/02 - The Grauniad is providing a new service, news from that strange otherworldly place, The North.

21/7/02 - You can't say that on TV anymore, Racist Word Association Interview featuring Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor.

21/7/02 - Despite being in the Gallery section it's a poor picture but still frightening, shivs and shanks from Rikers Island.

21/7/02 - A pretty decent remix of the Mountain Goats' 'Color In Your Cheeks'. (It's under miscellaneous).

21/7/02 - A fantastic new Weezer video featuring the Muppets:

20/7/02 - An interview with Kathy Reichs. (registration req.)

She talks about being in DMort (Disaster Mortuary Operational Recovery Teams) that went to NY after the events of September 11.  Is it me or are DMort branded flashlights and T-shirts just a bit odd?

20/7/02 - An excellent resource on UK ID cards. (via gorjuss)

The Observer has an excellent summary of newspaper opinion.  I'm worried because I agree with the Daily Mail:

"'[ID cards] touch our deepest instincts about what it is to be British. Mr Blunkett has a real fight on his hands... Will the public accept ID cards if they have to be paid for by doubling the cost of passports and driving licences? And can a Government that fouled up the census, presided over the great passports fiasco and brought you the Dome manage such a technologically exacting system?'
Daily Mail, editorial, 4 July."

20/7/02 - Send a message to your great-great-great... grandchildren with the Keo project:

"End of year 2003, the satellite KEO will be launched into space. Some 50000 years later it will return to Earth, intact, to offer our faraway, future, distant great grandchildren a collection of our messages destined for them."

20/7/02 - Sad news, the musicologist Alan Lomax has died.

20/7/02 - The US Justice Department is following the policies of that great democracy, East Germany: (via Yet Another Web Log)

"The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.

The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police."

""The Postal Service had been approached by homeland security regarding Operation TIPS; however, it was decided that the Postal Service and its letter carriers would not be participating in the program at this time," the agency said in a statement issued Wednesday."

20/7/02 - A large archive of English dialects. (via Footprints)

They have 49 sound files of English accents in England.

20/7/02 - Darn it they're out of stock:

20/7/02 - I entered the Grauniad's Best British Weblog competition this morning.  I'm not turning my nose up at £1000.

The background story is written by the director of digital publishing whose own weblog does not work in Netscape?!  Not doesn't render well, or show text only but point blank refuses to show anything.