29/8/00 - Stop the presses, rich, privileged woman had birthday.

29/8/00 - If you just have to know the date of your sewing machine.

29/8/00 - And who says Britain is a culinary desert:

"Thanks, too, for all your gastronomic news from Wigan, the Périgord of the North. Several readers have written in about the Wigan kebab, which is three pies on a stick, and Ian Foster claims to correct me over the "Wigan butty". "This is actually called a 'slap barm', he says, "from the noise the pie makes hitting the buttered barm cake.""

"Welcome to lorryspotting.com, the best and most up to date source of information on Eddie Stobart lorries.  In addition, we have information on other fleets such as Dodds Transport, Elddis, James Irlam, Langdons, and Macfarlanes."

"When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?"

"...John Sellers, 33, a nationally known civil-disobedience activist from Berkeley, Calif., was arrested Wednesday as he walked along JFK Boulevard. Yesterday, Sellers, who grew up in Chester County, was held on $1 million bail - even though he was only charged with misdemeanor offenses."

27/8/00 - Ah the memories.

27/8/00 - Sniff helium and say, 'She's so perky!'

27/8/00 - A fascinating exercise in modern art:

"In 1995, a group called the GALA Committee made some art and put it on TV’s Melrose Place. After a while, they started making things for every episode. The producers loved it, until they noticed something strange about the pictures... something they hadn’t seen at first. This is the true story of the unlikely chain of events that led to the first Primetime public art project in television history."

27/8/00 - Find out which religion most closely matches your beliefs.

27/8/00 - The date for the new Mountain Goats album, the Coroner's Gambit, is set.  And you can get two tracks free, here.

And it seems John Darnielle also writesmusic reviews for New Times Los Angeles.

27/8/00 - An interview with Margaret Atwood.  (via Arts Journal)

And the website for her new book, The Blind Assassin.

27/8/00 - Happy Cow's Global Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants.

27/8/00 - Gratuitous pig link.

27/8/00 - The Gettysburg Address for the '90s.

27/8/00 - This is almost who I now work for.

26/8/00 - God loves pigs:

"Golfers at the Florida Club will still have to endure the stench from a neighboring pig farm, but at least they won't have to listen to twangy tunes played for the porkers' enjoyment."

26/8/00 - I'm putting these links in no particular order just how they happen to lie in my bookmark file.

A comparison of Big Brother in the US and the UK.  I did think this was the most British thing about the show when Ii started watching:

"Crises

UK: Running out of loo paper - week one. Spent £70 of £105 budget on booze."

"Day 1 - aiden admits straight away that he doesn't like the look of liz. He says she looks like a lesbian.  As it turns out, sian is in fact the only lesbian in the house, although jake later admits that he is unsure of his true sexuality.

2 - The house sit down for a discussion of how to organise simple chores. robin creates tension by stating that the kitchen is where the women belong. heather hits him with a spatula."