The View From Here - as wet as a shag on a rock

31/8/02 - Ridiculous sports crests:

"I'm not sure, for example, what enters your head when you think of the Belgian city of Ghent, but I doubt it's a Native American chieftain in a feathered war bonnet. This, though, is the symbol AA Gent wear on their shirts. And I'd love, in Kevin Keegan's immortal words, "to have been a mole on the wall" of the Turkish side Vanspor's boardroom when the man in charge of design outlined his plans: "It's a cat, right. But not just any cat. No, this cat is smiling, wearing a bow tie, walking on his hind legs and waving cheerfully at the fans". Unfortunately by the time the directors had regained their powers of speech he'd ordered a million of them."

31/8/02 - John Darnielle's Ten Records That Render Life Bearable Whilst Simultaneously Making the World Seem Like a Malevolent and Overwhelming Place, and Two Activities That Fill Up the Endless River of Empty Hours That Flows Elegantly Before Me in a Cascading Arc Across the Horizon.

31/8/02 - All your Sheffield news in one place. No chip pan fires today.

31/8/02 - Thank you for financing global terror! (via The Magnificent Melting Object)

31/8/02 - My prediction, NY Times bestseller for 6 weeks. He couldn't have written it without me!

Crystallization of Polymers by Leo Mandelkern

31/8/02 - Top of the Crops: (via bud)

31/8/02 - The webloggers webring is dead, remove your ring code.

29/8/02 - Woo hoo, 3 years old today.