Some bastard in Mexico sent so much trackback spam, the whole server chucked a spazzo and the site vanished.
This is as close to geek language as my tormented mind allows me to go.
Anyway, as you can see, we are back up. As I understand it, the fact that MT is built in perl means [...]

I’ve always liked those large colourful Roy Lichtenstein prints, almost as big as a small country. The one above is nicely witty above the fireplace. Ha Ha, we are not really here!
But I had never stopped to work out where he got them from. I just assumed he drew them, and they are so transparent [...]

As everyone and his dog is noticing in the American blogosphere, Grokster lost everything but its kidneys in the current appeal launched by MGM in their very nasty lawsuit.
Boing Boing (go here and work back) is deep in the ramifications, but I wanted to quote yesterday’s before hindsight estimate of its effects.
“Supreme Court [...]

Here’s a nifty bit of political satire, to be savoured particularly by our flashistical friends.
About the British ID card plans, via robotwisdom, which also found the allegation that Katie Holmes, Tom Crusise’s instant lifelong squeeze, had her mind pureed by scientologists.
Thank Fox News for this one.

I love camping. I just adore it. I put this photograph up because it made me laugh. Can you imagine the interiors of those tents? And the chaos as the flood came?
It’s the Glastonbury Music Festival, by the way,

As my friends will testify, I am no paragon of sartorial perfection. But this picture of supermodel Elle McMoney, superpa Mr Swiss Businessperson and supertot Flynn gives me great hope.
Ugg boots. Beanie. Ribtickle pose in the fatboy jacket, just right for a few packs of Horizon 25’s, and that helmet on the kid which [...]

“Sofia Hassan Mahmoud and her brother Isaac”, 2000 – 18×14 inches -Gelatin Silver Print, by Fazal Sheikh
“Sheikh documents displaced communities and their experiences by collaborating with them over long periods in the creation of formal portraits and landscapes.
By using his subjectsí names as titles, bearing witness to their traumatic experiences as well as their [...]

So hardliner Mahmud Ahmadinejad is the new President of Iran, and the reforms – such as they are – will be rolled back.
Juan Cole has pointed out that he and Bush are mirror images of each other, and used fundamentally similar campaign tactics. They both smeared their enemies, claimed falsely to speak for [...]

Gizmodo has nailed the history of Scientological mindsearch gadget, the famous E-Meter.
But why does it look like a cheap Third World ripoff of a child’s toy by Alessi?
Found for the good of humanity by Waxy.

“Next month, the European Parliament will vote on the vital question of whether to allow patents covering software, which would restrict every computer user and tie software developers up in knots.
Many politicians may be voting blindly – not being programmers, they don’t understand what software patents do. They often think patents are similar to copyright [...]