26/10/02 - They'll give awards to just about anybody these days:

"The great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is to receive a posthumous Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Society of Chemistry."

"As you move round the board with your little silver marker, you will pass and land on squares occupied by 33 household names, including Norwich Castle, the Forum, Theatre Royal and even the EDP in the form of the 'Chance' square. Sister paper the Evening News also features, along with Norwich airport, the railway station, the River Wensum, the University of East Anglia, historic Elm Hill, the Maddermarket Theatre, Langley's toy shop/Royal Arcade and the Dinosaur Adventure Park."

Not enough votes for Surrey Street obviously, home to my old school:

It took me a while to work out how they'd got that photo; I don't remember school being so arboraceous.

26/10/02 - An interesting way to fight spam, Gabriel's Sword:

"You can do something about porn spam. Join us, and we'll make the porn spammers pay.

It's a very simple idea. Every website has to pay for bandwidth - the amount of files downloaded from their site. The more people who "hit" their site, the more they pay. Usually, lots of people hitting their site is a good thing some of them will buy something and cover the bandwidth costs. What we're doing is flooding their sites with "surfers" who aren't buying anything, and not viewing their content. We run up their bandwidth bills and they get nothing in return. That's bad for them."

26/10/02 - Life imitates The Simpsons.

26/10/02 - Doonesbury's view of weblogs:

26/10/02 - To complement the A List gossip page (culled from alt.showbiz.gossip), here's the page of blind items from alt.gossip.celebrities.

26/10/02 - Marc Almond meets Will Young in a quite compromising position:

26/10/02 - Photos from the recent Mountain Goats tour.  I appear at the bottom of page three.

Also track list and a couple of sound files from the new album Tallahassee.

John Darnielle does his Victor Meldrew impression.

26/10/02 - The new location for updated UK weblogs.

5/10/02 - Car meets Supertram, car loses.

5/10/02 - I didn't know that Moe's cursing in The Simpsons is inspired by the Tube Bar recordings:

"I’ll catch you, you cocksucker, and when I do, boy, God bless you!"

5/10/02 - The National Brownfield Sites Project did their pilot study in Sheffield.

5/10/02 - Cuppatea is not just my url, it seems it's a German musical duo as well:

"Folkrock, Blues and Pop Classics reduced to the max"