Note to web forums, online shops, &c.: sending birthday emails is not cute, it’s fucking annoying.
« »Buying myself a birthday sweatshirt. 13oz cotton loopwheeled on 1920s shuttle looms. (Yeah, I’m a loom geek, what of it?)
« »BT have capped my download speed to 384 Kbps without warning, for too much Bittorrenting. (All six series of Oz to blame, I suspect.)
« »Rid yourself of the wildly annoying warning that pops up when opening newly downloaded applications in Leopard.
« »Should I renew my Monocle subscription? ‘Ooh, how fascinating! Beautiful design!’, vs. ‘Insufferable jetset wank! Aspirational twerpery!’
« »Listening to Radio 4, wanting to smash Pam Ayres’ face in with a hammer. Again.
« »Realising that I just ate a tenner’s worth of cheese. Damn you Ian Mellis!
« »By Laurence Willmott. (A concept rather than a product, as far as I can tell.)
« »Greg Wilson was the first British DJ to mix on the telly. (Via Andrew.)
« »closing my accounts on Facebook and Myspace (and long-dormant ones on Friendster, Orkut and Linkedin).
« »Primary School headmistress hides children from paedophile menace, using smiley faces.
« »Where does Dopplr get its location data? Off the beaten track, it only knows about the little places near the big places.
« »Fire Eagle is the secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online. Or it will be, soon.
« »fascism by illegalphotos. A response to this idiotic poster campaign by the Metropolitan Police.
« »At the time of writing, I’m the only person ever to have used the term Glasgasian on the web. (It refers to the accent lots of Glaswegian people of Asian descent have. I thought it was a fairly well known and used term, but now I’m wondering if I invented it!)
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