Month: September 2002

So Rod Liddle is resigning. What a pity that the man responsible for this is going. Boo! (link is to Real Audio of the Today segment from April on corporate songs… including the performance of the Today Song.)

The smell of freshly-sawn MDF tangs at my nose as I ascend the staircase, emerging into some weird minimalist white view of hell. It’s a pleasant enough space, but I now know that the ‘Ikea chic’ of the catalogue is far more carefully-considered than one might expect. This is simply empty. The immaculately-quoiffed sales exec executes a commendable impression of someone who isn’t turning her nose up at me, and asks what sort of price I’m looking at.

“Well,” I bluster, “around here, I guess a two-bedroom flat is around a hundred thousand. So these places are – what – double that sort of money?”

She smiles graciously, evidently relieved that her judgement is sound and she read me right. “More like double that.”

Oh. P’raps not, then.

I nose around for a few minutes, grateful the decor is so clinically vile, before escaping through the MDF gauntlet.

“The exchange“, in case you were wondering, not that there’s any information there.

This, spotted over on typographica, is absolutely lovely. It’s a letter game thing, but… oh, just have a play. Oh, and keep reloading typographica to see their wacky random banner/CSS thing. Cute.

This is plain bizarre.

If you read many websites, and you’re not using a news aggregator, get with the program(me)! Seriously, this thing has revolutionised my online life. Now made all the better by the availability of news feeds from the BBC: front page, technology, UK, world. Hurrah!

And so it continues. Srebrenica was one of the worst episodes in European history in fifty years. Possibly the worst. And here we’re told that it never happened.

Depressing.