This is a phrase I never want to hear again (!):
Based on the answers you’ve given us, on this axis, we judge that of the well-known ‘papers, readers of The Daily Star / The Daily Star of Scotland have views most like yours.
This shocking phrase comes from an analysis of my political views [results shown above] as analysed against those displayed by the ‘general’ population and by the UK newspapers. It’s less a ‘Tell us your favorite food when eight years old and we’ll tell you what age you’ll likely die” kind of online survey, but attempts to be a serious view of some of the issues that are driving the 2005 election. Of course it is problematic to attempt to categorise the views of blocks of voters, but all those who fill in the survey input what their perceived views are , ie ‘middle, left, right’ and a few in between, as well as what paper they would/do read, meaning that with more participants, the survey becomes ever more accurate.
Political Society Survey
My Results
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” the Skin Horse said. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
“Generally, by the time you become Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
Natural aging is fashion’s new wrinkle
I normally hate forwards because they usually ask you to put your name down on a stupid list that no-one will ever read or ever care about. They ask you to read through lots of text to get to a simple and obvious conclusion: the world is harsh. This forward though, not completely different from all the others in that it asks to be emailed on to other people, is far more grabbing due to its language.
It came with this line: “patrick….if u want to learn portuguese…translate this.”
Nos momentos silenciosos, adore a Deus.
Nos momentos dolorosos, confie em Deus.
A cada momento, agradeça a Deus.
Passe esta mensagem a sete pessoas, exceto você e eu.
Você receberá algo que precisa amanhã.
(Apenas Faça)
In our quiet moments, love God.
In our painful moments, trust in God.
Every moment, give thanks to God.
Pass this message on to seven people, except you and I.
You will receive something special to you tomorrow.
It may be old news, having been released on Friday the 22nd, but it’s news to me and I’m really pleased. The new version of Internet Explorer, the much maligned Windows browser, will have proper CSS support (apparently) and will work with PNG images, making backgrounds and shadow affects usable.
The first couple of things they’ve done are:
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Support the alpha channel in PNG images. We’ve actually had this on our radar for a long time, and have had it supported in the code for a while now. We have certainly heard the clear feedback from the web design community that per-pixel alpha is a really important feature.
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Address CSS consistency problems. Our first and most important goal with our Cascading Style Sheet support is to remove the major inconsistencies so that web developers have a consistent set of functionality on which they can rely. For example, we have already checked in the fixes to the peekaboo and guillotine bugs documented at positioniseverything.net so use of floated elements become more consistent.
The IE Blog
Being trialed at the moment on Longhorn blogs is a new Google version of selling ads: within the RSS site feed itself. As the moderator’s post indicates, this isn’t something that has been confirmed, something that is in the ever-present ‘Beta’, or something that is even necessarily going to be a product. However, it’s another advertising revenue stream that would be one way to finally take advantage of those RSS subscribers out there.
Longhorn Blogs: AdSense RSS
I’m thinking my parents would become rather scared for their financial situation if I were to tell them my plans for tomorrow. I’m going to start going to some of the lectures of my friends who are studying medicine. My first one, tomorrow at nine, is the first in a series about digestion in the Gastro-Intestinal Tract. As long as none of their professors notice me hiding out there, observing without being anything related to the department, I’ll be in the clear.
My aunt studied History for her first degree and then went back to University to do a medical degree. I doubt that I’d have that luxury after pratting on with Political Studies. Biology can always remain a side enthusiasm.
The Hong Kong Broadband Network had today launched a 1000Mbps service today, rated at 166 times the downstream speed of its competitors ADSL telephone based service. The service usese essential all Cisco technology to create a city-wide Ethernet service, as used in offices and corporate sites around the world, but now expanded to encompass the whole city.
Admittadly Hong Kong is a special case with a supremely high density population which is a dream for this sort of networking objective, but it’s certainly a significant feat and something to look up to for the future. After all, here in the UK, 1 or 2Mbs is considered the ‘good’ standard.
ConvergeDigest.com
The personals section of the London Review of Books holds a plethora of dirty, steamy, literary content where the geeks of the writing world seduce one-another through witty and meandering prose. It’s a hoot in anybody’s book.
Male readers of the LRB: trawling for sex as your opening gambit doesn’t really work. Talk to me about your favourite author; the painting that means the most to you; what smells remind you of your childhood; the day you first saw your parents differently; your first holiday; your favourite place to read; the last recipe you followed; the most recent newspaper clipping you kept; the name of a lover you most recently remembered; your favourite stretch of water; what you like most about Paris or Rome or London; the last time you fed ducks on a pond. Actually, I’m short on time. Go ahead and trawl. Woman, 39. Publishing. Get on with it. Box no. 08/09
Massive-breasted heiress, 38, seeks witty Nobel-awarded intellectual beef-cake gardener-chef-poet with stonking pecs. Like me, you are dynamic, hilarious, serious, ironic, passionate, practical, affectionate, kind, funny, have most of your own legs, and are startled to find yourself still cruising the aisles of the Lurve Bazaar. Unlike me, you don’t exist. Am I right? If so, will consider any M who can make conversation, sense, a living, friends, four cooked meals, hot love and me laugh. Box no. 07/01
Yes, sir. I can boogie. Man. Academic. 62. Quite possibly gay. Box no. 08/12
LRB Personals
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Sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi has died in a London hospital at the age of 81. Canada.com believes him to be a highly ecclesiastical man, but I think he’ll be better known for his striking sculpture and as a figurehead for the Pop Art movement.
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From a Midsummer Night’s Dream to the urban streets, the Levi campaign is here.
When I wrote about it a couple months ago the campaign wasn’t airing yet: now it is, and it can be seen on the website. Check it out.
Pieces in a modern style: translation between Shakespeare’s words and Levi’s interpretation
- I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me.
- I can see what they’re up to, trying to freak me about my jeans
- Thou art changed! What do I see on thee?
- You look different. What sort of weird ass jeans are you wearing?
Levi Europe
