Thursday  the Ninth of January, 2003

"Our doing, human! You may call us... the Elements of Doom! I am Phosphorus -- and with me are Scandium, Barium, Cobalt and Hafnium!"
Zinc! Aaargon! It's the Periodic Table of Comic Books, a patchy catalogue of the elements as featured in the pages of comic books. Titanium never goes out of fashion.
The Young Man's Book of Amusement - a collection of deeply questionable scientific try-this-at-home projects from the 19th century. [via Joh]
It's chilling to think that somewhere in the world there is a person - maybe even several people - who can use the word webinar with a perfectly straight face.
"Retinal scans are to be used by a Sunderland school to identify pupils."
Well, yes, that's how retinal scans work. But making them a replacement for dinner money and library cards is all very grim and demeaning; only a short tapdance away from barcodes on the foreheads, herding children through as anonymous cattle who can't be trusted to keep their own lives in order. Surprising that the school doesn't seem to be playing the obvious anti-truancy card for bonus points, though. [via Nik]

Passing Frenzies: Thief II - Rumble - Nation States - Button Men - Startopia


 Monday  the Sixth

This morning's surprisingly clever anti-Bush Mirror frontpage turns out, with a little web searching, to be a slightly edited and anglicised version of a four year old anarchist poster that's been doing the rounds again recently. The Internet as a secret journalistic aid that nobody else knows about.

Eerily, the poster looks a lot like the output from the Hieroglypher, a facetious new web toy that I'd been faffing idly with over Christmas and might as well unveil today - feed it a paragraph or two of text, and it replaces any words it recognises with images.


As 
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Brain children. Recent or noteworthy Web offspring.

Online cliques. Trespassers may be welcome.

In the bookpile. Powered by allconsuming.net.

Incidental music. Ohrwurmen or otherwise.

Other weblogs. The ones I make a point of returning to a lot.

Supporting cast. That have Web pages. In alphabetical order.

Weeks beginning. All having ended.
2002: 30.12 23.12 16.12 09.12 02.12 25.11 18.11 11.11 04.11 28.10 21.10 14.10 07.10 30.09 23.09 16.09 09.09 02.09 26.08 19.08 12.08 05.08 29.07 22.07 15.07 08.07 01.07 24.06 17.06 10.06 03.06 27.05 20.05 13.05 06.05 29.04 22.04 15.04 08.04 01.04 25.03 18.03 11.03 04.03 25.02 18.02 11.02 04.02 28.01 21.01 14.01 07.01

2001: 31.12 24.12 17.12 10.12 03.12 26.11 19.11 12.11 05.11 29.10 22.10 15.10 08.10 01.10 24.09 17.09 10.09 03.09 27.08 20.08 13.08 06.08 30.07 23.07 16.07 09.07 02.07 25.06 18.06 11.06 04.06 28.05 21.05 14.05 07.05 30.04 23.04 16.04 09.04 02.04 26.03 19.03 12.03 05.03 26.02 19.02 12.02 05.02 29.01 22.01 15.01 08.01 01.01

2000: 25.12 18.12 11.12 04.12 27.11 20.11


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