Listening Too Long, To One Song

I always knew that talking to strangers was good. Do it more often. I like this article on the imagery and symbolism in Punch Drunk Love rather a lot, but that may be becuase it’s just about my favourite movie of all time at the moment. That I smiled so much at this piece of ‘gay’ parody probably means I spent too much time at school. But it is nevertheless true that as a word it does describe a specific feel of a thing, outsite and detached from the obvious hurtfullness of the expression, a certain effeminacy that’s almost touched on by ‘metrosexual’ in the Venn diagram but really isn’t. »

Tri-Danielson

Going to Hay reminded me of two things; firstly I like reading clever books and should do more of it else my head will atrophy, secondly that I needed to subscribe to McSweeny’s. Whilst I was in the process of sorting out the latter I spotted a special offer they were running to get both McSweeny’s and The Believer at a combined low price. As you amy have spotted last week I discovered a band I like an awful lot thanks to The Believer’s website so a subscription seemed worth a shout. »

Plotting the story

“I believe that it’s through stories that we relate our gameplaying experiences. These stories contextual our virtual experiences; for on the one hand, we are sitting on the couch, pushing buttons in a coordinated manner, but on the other, we are the Prince of Persia, saving the day. And the gameplaying experience of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is contextualized as a story that the Prince is telling Farah, a story of his “virtual” experience that has now never happened, but he did indeed save the day. »

European Cup

Paolo Maldini, Sophia Loren, Pavarotti, Marco Polo, Velentino Rossi, Silvio Berlusconi, Guiseppe de Lampedusa, Gina Lollobrigida, Dante, Frankie Dettori, Garibaldi, Giorgio Armani, Italo Calvino, Machiavelli, Leonardo Fibonacci, Christopher Columbus, Ennio Morricone, Julius Caeser, Monica Belucci, Enzo Ferrari, Savranola, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, John Cabot, Federico Fellini, Alessandro Volta, Emma Bonino, Giuseppe Verdi… Your boys got beat tonight. »

Nokia 770

Every so often I see something and just enthuse about it until someone takes me to one side and shows that it’s not as clever as I think. So let’s try that in real time. Today Nokia announced their new Internet tablet, the Nokia 770. Go on, click on that link and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s fully NickBuzzword compliant with Linux, WiFi, Bluetooth, 800×480 screen, GNOME, GStreamer, Debian and more wrapped up in a nice little package that they call Maemo. »

Squirrel

So if you live in England you’ll know all about Red Squirrels and their shockingly sad decline at the hands of the tougher and nastier American grey squirrel. Now in what shoddy journalists would probably call ‘one of natures ironies’ Canadian black squirrels are pushing out the grey in Washington DC (reg reqd). As this handy infographic shows they’re spreading all over the Washington area. In 1902, and then again in 1906, the zoo got black squirrels from “the department of crown lands” in Ontario. »