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

2/12/02 - A personal account of the televised autopsy.

2/12/02 - The advert that was banned for making fun of George W. Bush. [Warning: mpg] (via Bifurcated Rivets)

2/12/02 - Spoof Rainbow comics:

2/12/02 - Never was a truer word written (about a lot of websites):

"The BEST way to view my page is come to my house and look at it on my monitor!"

1/12/02 - If you've just got a big pile of bones and soil what you could really do with is a computer program that could match up and catalogue the bones. Now where would I find such a thing?

"More than 1,000 graves are being destroyed by contractors building the King's Cross Channel Tunnel terminal in what government advisers have called "a desecration" and "an outrage against human dignity"."

1/12/02 - Brooke's autopsy article:

"If this event is as titillating as some claim, surely there is no better way to strip death of its power than to confront people with the banal reality (bread knives, a junior hacksaw) of their fantasies and fears. Death is no bearded lady. And if this spectacle has the power to twist and jade the masses, why are mortuary assisitants the happiest, funniest people I know?"

1/12/02 - Exclusive footage concerning the moon landings. [Warning: mpg]

1/12/02 - Beluga not pricey enough? How about Chrissy Caviar? (via bud)

1/12/02 - My boss will appreciate this: (via plasticbag)

1/12/02 - Great photos from a road trip Atlanta to Tallahassee.

30/11/02 - Gratuitous pig link.

30/11/02 - An interview with Jarvis Cocker. (Onboard the Master Cutler?)

30/11/02 - Observer interview with Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy. (via Splinters)

30/11/02 - Brighten up your Christmas with the Ethel Merman Disco Album! (via Popbitch)

29/11/02 - Mmm, strawberry Kit-Kat. Someone left them in the tea room, along with the delicious, and hard to find, banana Kit-Kats.

29/11/02 - It's nice to know that other people were as upset as I was about the McDonalds combination/permutation advert. As Private Eye puts it:

"This inspired 154 of Britain's keenest pedants to put pen to paper, triggering an Advertising Standards Authority inquiry into whether McDonald's had got its maths right."

The adjudication has been announced, McDonalds won. Their reasoning:

"The advertisers said they were aware that some people might consider a double cheeseburger and milkshake to be the same permutation as a milkshake and double cheeseburger but they believed that each permutation could be considered a different eating experience."

This is very true, one makes you bloated then nauseous, the other nauseous then bloated.

29/11/02 - I have an ominosity quotient of 4. That probably means I frighten only very, very nervous people. (via methylsalicylate)

29/11/02 - Looking for the malicious email about David Beckham? I suggest the power of Usenet.