All posts made the week commencing Sunday 27 Jan., 2002:

11:53, Saturday 2 Feb., 2002 Link

Quick reminder: We're always on the lookout for more writers for Upsideclone. The submissions guidelines are, to be frank, a bit too brief -- but that's not a bug, it's a feature.

09:10 Link

Oh wow. The Internet Archive Movie Collection. There's almost a thousand to choose from -- but Stewart has some good suggestions.

23:01, Friday 1 Feb. Link

RavenBlack's found The Perfect Job in today's Upsideclone. (Which is one of those pieces that's made me think far too much, and I'll have to braindump here some time next week.)

16:08 Link

Ascii, javascript Mandelbrot [via haddock] generator. Way cool.

15:32 Link

Exceptional high-resolution photographs of the Horsehead Nebula.

00:49, Thursday 31 Jan. Link

Hey, new Upsideclown. "And later, when skin is pressed hard on skin and skin barely grazes skin all in one, she chews my lip and I bite her neck and it's like the first second of the expansion of the universe, my sphere of perception doubling and redoubling, seeing colours you'd never even be able to comprehend --"

I'm looking in today's fresh Upsideclown, looking and doing the polka (hop, step, step). Please enjoy: Person to person.

00:12 Link

Extremely sick Something Awful children's books [via Bifurcated Rivets]. Eugh.

21:22, Wednesday 30 Jan. Link

Polka steps: "The basic polka step consists of a preparatory hop followed by a chasse done first to the left and then to the right. [...] It is generally danced to a quick, quick, slow rhythm". Required reading, for tomorrow.

19:30, Tuesday 29 Jan. Link

Name Spaces As Tools for Integrating the Operating System. I've a feeling this would be very rewarding if I could just read the entire thing. Filed here for later reference (under future filesystem concepts).

21:00, Monday 28 Jan. Link

More music: So I finally bought The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs [at Amazon.co.uk], after seeing the whole thing live just over a year ago. And I'm stunned because after an incredibly stressful day at work, and despite this being on CD and not live, Stephin Merritt's voice is still incredible, the tones in the music still carry me away, it still makes me laugh, and I'm feeling that little rush that comes with great music roughly every 4 seconds. I've been timing it. Aaah. Happiness.

20:57, Sunday 27 Jan. Link

Current listening: la reveancha del tango by gotan project [at Amazon.co.uk] is tango meets dance. Cutting edge music, great rhythm, cool unexpected beats. It'll be huge. Also listening: Melody A.M. by Royksopp [at Amazon.co.uk], which I saw recommended all over the place and never got round to hearing. But then I did, and it's excellent. Late night music.

20:45 Link

AlterSlash, cool automatic Slashdot digest [via MeFi].

20:42 Link

Slow Wave dream diary comic.

20:40 Link

The video to Star Guitar by the Chemical Brothers synchronises the view from a train to the music. Wonderful. How about something like that as an MP3 player visualiser plugin? Surely it would be possibly. Enough with those flames already.

17:07 Link

Currently browsing mail-order catalogues with Google and being blown away by the sheer breadth of fine products available from Carol Wrights Gifts. Some of my favourites, and remember these are all from a single catalogue: the well-dressed goose ($19.99 for goose, $12.99 for three months of costumes); cushions that look like Genuine Suede; cockrings ($9.99 for two!).