The View From Here

7/7/01 - I can't believe this:

"The British Government once again voiced its commitment to the wired economy by attempting to talk its European partners into overturning their commitment to outlaw spam."

A second Register article suggests that perhaps the e-minister responsible for this stupidity, Douglas Alexander, hasn't received enough spam. Perhaps you should send him some.

7/7/01 - Waste your time with Hello Kitty Tetris. (via [cold][wet][Durham])

7/7/01 - DON'T park here:

7/7/01 - Britain is full of little Hitlers. (via web-goddess)

7/7/01 - The latest Mountain Goats fan page.

7/7/01 - The latest BritLit:

"You fuckin' poncin' slag," shouted Pyro Joey, as he nutted the Kosovan illegal immigrant.
"Leave it out," laughed Rhino, pissing on the unconscious body. "We've got a meet with Johnny Too down the Ned.""

7/7/01 - Do you ever here something but totally reject it? At the weekend I was served tuna sausages but I constantly thought they must mean tofu sausages.

7/7/01 - 0.27 seconds. I need to be faster. (via email)

26/6/01 - A new old interview with John Darnielle.

On the sample ("Haunted House Blues" by Bessie Smith) that starts Jaipur on the new album:

"There was a Celine Dion sound-collage that was actually going to be the lead-off bit where I had her saying "Made a deal with the devil" over and over, and eventually just "deal with the devil" a few times, but it's probably best that I left it at home when I went to transfer the songs from cassette to quarter-inch."

26/6/01 - All the web-based options that Mathematica offers.

26/6/01 - Delia, how could you?

"DELIA SMITH, the queen of custard and crumble cooking, has abandoned her hardline stand against low-fat food."

26/6/01 - I'd always wondered what Jake Brakes were:

"Engine brakes work by opening the exhaust valves on diesel engines during the firing stroke and allowing the compressed air to vent instead of pushing the piston downward and completing the power stroke."

The company that makes them doesn't like it's brand-name being picked on:

26/6/01 - Article on 'Vermeer and the Delft School' with plenty of the artworks themselves.

26/6/01 - How Monsanto is helping the drug war.

They're not too accurate with their herbicide:

"On the very first flyover by the cropduster, the U.S. Senator, the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, the Lieutenant Colonel of the Colombian National Police, and other Embassy and congressional staffers were fully doused -- drenched, in fact -- with the sticky, possibly dangerous (herbicide) Roundup. Imagine what is happening when a high-level congressional delegation is not present."

26/6/01 - Emo Philips is back!

22/6/01 - Yeah, yeah - against the death penalty. But free Steve Earle mp3s!

21/6/01 - Details of the Simpsons DVD.