Hello again dear things. Miss me? I’ve been hermiting and fighting off chronic insomnia this past week, hence all quiet on the blogging front. Still, I am back now with a bumper bag of links for y’all. Looking through the sheer number that have accumulated in various folders, I am going to split the roast. It is either that, or drown you in links and that way runs the risk of the good stuff getting missed. Plus, Safari keeps crashing under the strain.

So, today I shall post the non-news stuff and the videos (because Abi will come after me with a sharpened microwave meal if I miss them out). I shall post the news/more serious stuff later in the week, most likely on Wednesday. How does that sound to everyone?

This photo is called “dancing nancies“. Now, whilst I can’t help but think of the derogatory meanings of the word, it is a damn gorgeous picture.

FriendFeed or Twitter: you decide. Me, I like Twitter because it does what I want it to, and that is let me participate in the rumbling background noise or not, as the mood takes. The last few weeks especially it has been a godsend, keeping me “connected” with the people who care about me, but at one degree (unlike the blog) so I can step back from their concern when it all gets too much. I’m not making an argument that says FriendFeed can’t also let me do that, but… I guess I just prefer not to get everything aggregated into one place too much.

The other week I linked to that Emily Gould piece in the NYT magazine with a throw-away “have a think about this” comment. Heads wiser and more savvy than mine have since stepped up to the plate, especially Violet Blue in her reaction, living online (caution, NSFW blog)

Why Twitter? Because you get pithy words of wisdom from clever people: it’s not about features, but community

Never knew there were so many sushi recipes

2008 is the National Year of Reading. What are you doing?

Blog and save wildlife. Well, why not?

Sometimes the Old Testament got it right (explore the site for some other truly surreal bits taken from the Old Testament and reenacted in Lego)

A sensible solution to eBooks – now publishers, take note!

Point One. ‘Nuff said.

One thing my recent unexpected time off from work has shown me is that I really like to have my own desk space set up just so. They could tell you that at work already (I am very picky) but I have got extra neurotic lately. I don’t want to go back to work because my desk is so boring! Perhaps I can get some of these tips implemented?

I never thought hippos were cute, but just as I’ve managed to persuade Moose in the past three years that penguins are evil, she’s convinced me that hippos are cute.

And now the movies (and random video clips)…

City of Ember – I expect it is an adaptation of something I have never heard of, but it looks intriguing.

Tom’s video of the water at Chalice Well Gardens has the ability to make me feel monumentally homesick and totally at peace all at the same time. Wish I was back in those gardens right now – if you are ever in the area, do go, as it is one of the most tranquil places I know of.

Good at playing Snake on your mobile phone? Try it on a building

Tropic Thunder viral promo – well, it passed Moose’s giggle test

MUTO – a video that will probably cause me nightmares with its surrealism, but still, fascinating to watch

Boy A

The Women – corny, but still, you’ve got to give me some licence. I’m depressed you know 😉

And that is me done for the day. It only took three hours and a trip to get some pick’n’mix… As I said, expect the more serious current-events related portion of the roast during the week. Till we meet again, my chickadees.

This weeks roast is brought to you in a race against the Monaco Grand Prix. I started writing just as they started off the grid. Why race the Grand Prix? Writing roasts can take a while and I have a tendency to get all grumpy half way through and go “why bother”, then womble round the flat annoying Moose till I think the damn thing is never going to get written. What a way to waste an entire Sunday afternoon! Grand Prix’s are time limited, so trying to finish the roast before the race is over gives me a focus and keeps me writing.

It also keeps me at my desk instead of in the living room yelling insults at the TV and gloating in an unseemly fashion when/if something happens to Hamilton and Alonso. Yes, I know I have just uttered a phrase that should have me handing in my British citizenship, but I can’t stand all the hype around Lewis Hamilton. James Allen especially needs to just get a room already!

And now that rant is done with (sorry), I shall bring you the goodies…

My whole general malaise lately has led to me withdrawing from certain social sites, Facebook for one. (It’s also seen a huge splurge in activity on other sites like Twitter, but go figure). Will a major redesign help bring me back? Let’s wait and see what they have to offer, shall we?

Phrases such as “Orwellian”, “Big Brother state” and “1984 anyone?” are being bandied around with increasing frequency at the moment, but sometimes it is necessary. Technical issues aside (every email and phone call?!) plans for a database holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK are just… scary. In the past at work the Information Commission has made my life trickier, mandating the collection of this and that piece of data, but on this front I’m supporting them and their assessment that it is a “step too far“.

MPs have voted against laws forcing a “father” in IVF treatment

(Just took a small break to make a cup of tea – damn, but it looks like I’m missing a good race today!)

I won’t even try and understand the relationship Americans seem to have with their guns, but even this story has to seem a little bit weirder than usual. Doesn’t it?

At Kew Gardens, a treetop walkway has just been opened. I love trees so the chance to get up in the canopy should be a special one. Time to go visit Kew I think…

Continuing the nature theme, research suggests going for a walk with the wildlife is essential. Anecdotally, I would have to agree. I felt very, very down most of the time in Liverpool, and that was in no small part due to the lack of green spaces. Every time I would go back to Somerset, I would feel a physical weight lift. Even now, I feel better for a saunter through a park. Go, give it a try – have a womble around your nearest green space and feel the benefits 🙂 (She says, even though at the moment I have to have a “daily mission” to get me out the house)

Do we put too much of our lives on the internet? Emily Gould’s story, whilst a drastic extreme, does ring some bells. My own internal sensor has flagged things to me a couple of times and gone “you shouldn’t post that”. I know I live a more ‘open’ and public life than is the norm and most of the time that’s OK to me. Every now and again though, I do question the wisdom of what I’m doing

For the geeky BSG fans among us (thanks to billt for the link)

Continuing my search for the best photoblogs out there, I bring you seriocomic. Eye candy galore

Thanks to Moose for these next two – every now and again, one of those email circulars that rampages through the office email is genuinely funny:
Google Earth scrabble
Can’t evolve? Tough

Flood, by They Might Be Giants is an album I actually have on my iPod three times, once as a copy-from-a-friend, once because I borrowed it from the library, and once because I actually shelled out money. It’s one of those albums you hear a song from, go “I love that!”, get a copy of the album, then realise you already have it because you loved it before… Embarrassing, but thankfully I’m not the only fan

So today I was a citizen (in my case, a citizen-commentator-on-F1) BTW, the way to Cas’ heart, be a good enough writer to get the bitter irony and sarcasm across. Love it 😀

Initially I was skeptical about bkkeepr, mainly because of the the name. I admit it. All these Web 2.0 contractions are really getting on my 36D’s. Then I looked at it a bit more and had an “Oooooh…” moment. Time to play I think.

Looking for something new to read? Ooodles of great blogs just got added to 9rules. Enjoy

(Piquet has just driven into the wall, the silly sausage. 27 laps to go)

Along with my well documented notebook obsession, I’ve also got a bit of a thing for pens. Namely the Pilot V series, so I’m a happy (if poorer) bunny now I’ve found a place that does mail and bulk orders

I’ve spoken to a few people and we are all kinds of enthusiastic to see Dollhouse and what Joss Whedon has to offer. But we are also all a little bit anxious, given Fox’s record on cancellations. But to campaign to save the show before it’s even aired?!

I can no longer watch Grand Designs because all the people irritate me so much. I am sure they are all lovely people, but I am just so JEALOUS of the bastards for being able to build their own home, when at the moment we’ll all be living on the Moon before I get the chance to do that. Yes, I am one of those sad people who has the designs to their dream home already in their head, but 😛
Still, this blog is whetting my appetite again. Damn it. Really, the only option left to me is to marry an architect.

I’ve been home during the week this week, so I’ve been able to actually stream video (our connection just goes flop at busy times).
Australia
Quid Pro Quo – a trailer I watched and went “huh?”
The Dark Knight
The Rocker – silly, stupid, but somehow appealing
The Mummy: tomb of the Dragon Emperor – *rubs hands in glee* And I think I might even have gotten over my need to yell at the screen at all the archaeological innaccuracies. Best quote “why do Mummy’s never play fair?”
Hancock – it could be a one joke film, but I still want to see it

And not a movie trailer, but still worth a giggle over
Jerry needs no help

And finished just in time to see the aftermath of Rosberg’s crash. Bugger, Hamilton is in the lead. As Moose just said, “he could still get a puncture. We can hope…”

Oy! but this has been a long and weird week. Bright Meadow was down again for most of it hence no updates or ability to comment if you had so desired. You’ll be pleased to hear that I have finally kicked Fasthosts into touch and am now residing happily on MediaTemple’s servers. Why did I wait so long? Because I am reluctant to change, despite my enjoyment of new things. I have to think about something for a long time before I finally “take the plunge”, especially when large(ish) chunks of money are involved. Add to that, it’s a scary thing, changing servers! In the end, not that scary because I had the totally angelic Tam holding my hand throughout the entire process, but still, not trivial.

But it is done now and hopefully this heralds in an era of stable uptime, which I shall mark with todays Roast and lots of shiny new content in the days, weeks, months to follow. You see, perhaps the most irritating thing about BM being down this past week was that I actually had things to post. I know!

The British Ministry of Defence has declassified reports on UFO sightings.

I have yet to use Vista or Office 2007 and I am hoping that the day I do never comes. My dream? To go from my current workplace of Office XP (*shudder*) to a workplace of blissful OS X serenity. As this is unlikely, it looks like I’m shortly going to be facing this problem. See, I live and breathe keyboard shortcuts, so to have to learn new ones is a depressing thought. I’ve been on a Mac for nearly half a decade now, and I’m still learning new shortcuts, then having to unlearn them at work… The article is so true when it says you mould your software to your needs.

One of the things I love when you find a new blog is going through the archives obsessively, getting to know the author, getting the feel of the place. Yes, I know this sounds more than a little stalkerish, but 😛 You’ll just have to trust me when I say I’m a lovely person who really isn’t scary. Well, apparently I can be scary at work – just a glower got the big-big-boss to do something (mwhahahaa!) – but I’m not scary in a stalker way. Really.

Mild diversion there, sorry, I blame the big blue bouncy ball I’m using as a chair right now. The bouncing makes computing more fun than it has any right to be, but I had never considered the necessity of wearing a sports bra at my desk before…

And again, I am back. I did mention it’s been an odd week, didn’t I? As I was saying, archive-trawling can turn up some true gems, such as this one. The chicken in question sadly later died ( 🙁 ) but sad topic or no, I was still snortling like a crazy thing with some truly odd mental images inspired by this post. Trust me, you’ll never look at a chicken or an egg in the same way again.

I’ve got myself into a little photoblog obsession at the moment. I do so love finding new, gorgeous pictures with great stories behind them. And yes Moose, this is why I was asking what else there is to see around the Grand Canyon. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see that?

What are you doing on 5th July 2008? Going to Open Tech 2008? Good, I might just see you there.

You might have heard me rant in the past about how scifi/fantasy books you love have this depressing habit of being turned into lacklustre trilogies. There’s a related rant about how authors now START with trilogies, not even thinking of doing just one book, but that’s for another day. Want to know why it irritates me so much? Read this to give you a clue.

I’m not meant to be eating egg noodles because they are one of the evil foods that make me balloon to the size of the Hindenburg with no nutritional gain (bread and most other wheat products are now also in this category *sob*) bit these singapore noodles just look so tasty!

The next Joss Whedon offering. Tingly goodness.

Sometimes the original title of a post pretty much just says it all. These made me laugh… A LOT!

There were more movie trailers released this week, but I’m having a little bit of an issue viewing them at the moment, so you’ll have to make do with these two I’m afraid.
Monster Camp – the role players I know are so much cuter than this. Silly play-to-the-sterotype trailer!
Ice Age 3 – as I articulated to Moose when I saw this “but it should go dinosaurs > mammals, not the other way around!” Scrat is cute as always though

Now that is done, I am not sure what I am going to do with the rest of my day. See, normally I’m only just regaining consciousness at this time of the morning. I might even have to leave the house! *shock horror* When I looked at my bookmarks folder, I thought today was going to be a bumper day, but when it got down to the final editing process, it turns out I was really hard to please this morning. I blame waking up at the ungodly hour of 9am on a Sunday. This does mean of course, that it is the perfect time to chime in with links of your own to share. *hint hint*

(Comments with links will get coralled into moderation, but I will rescue them really, really quickly – alas I am a victim of my own success in this, and if you saw the amount of spam I’m getting, you’d understand this measure. It’s that or captchas which will happen on this blog over my dead body).

Hello again people. I hope you are enjoying the sunshine as much as I am right now. Ah, the joys of spending the evening sitting in a beer garden, or the afternoon at the marina having a BBQ – which, by the way, was where I was last week, hence no Roast.

Which gives us oodles to go through this week!

Before I go any further though, how many of you wonder at the titles each week? A conversation the other week led me to realise that perhaps people were reading a bit too much into them. When a guy opens a conversation with “so tell me about what happened when you picked a guy up in a cemetery?!” it tends to throw you slightly, till you work out he is referring to a roast title from a few months back. Yes, it says something about my circle of friends that he was willing to believe I had picked up a guy in a cemetery, but that is beside the point. He thought the roast titles related to something in my life and had been champing at the bit for a chance to get me to explain that one a bit more…

I felt rather cruel having to disabuse him of his notions when I explained it was just a quote I liked from Abby on NCIS. See, all the things I put in Sunday Roast titles are quotes or song lyrics from things I have seen and heard recently. Yes, I keep a book of quotes. Yes, I try and relate the quote I use at least vaguely to the roast, but don’t go busting your brains trying to work out the connection! (If you can, or you can guess where I got the quote from, then my eternal love and respect!)

Now I’ve explained that, let us get on with the linkage from the last two weeks shall we?

I need to start tagging things “only in America” so I can find them again… A prisoner in Arkansas is suing as he lost 45kg in jail. This isn’t loosing 45kg to take him to dangerously undernourished either. Oh no. It’s loosing 45kg to go down to 22 stone (that’s about 308lbs)!

As soon as I saw this article I said “Glastonbury” – off the top of my head I can count at least 10, and those are just the ones I can remember, bearing in mind it’s been several years since I went for a hike round the hostelries.

I’ve always been against nuclear weapons, but now even more so since I found out tea is under threat! As Moose said when she forwarded me the link, you just know this story is true. It’s so British but one of our genuine concerns about nuclear war was that we’d run out of tea!

In the UK, we have the lowest privacy rating in the EU. We’re categorised as “endemic surveillance” along with Russia and Singapore. So what does that mean as we get increasingly online lives?

Not watched Iron Man yet? Why not? Go, watch it. If nothing else, Robert Downey Jr looks fine throughout the entire thing and lots of stuff gets blown up. Something for all the family. And of course, then you get out of the movie and have a great time dissecting the storyline with friends.

Orson Scott Card on J.K.Rowling and plagarism. You can feel the bile and vitriol just oozing out of the computer screen. Love it (with a few valid points thrown in for good measure)

In London through July this year? Why not check out some of the events in the London Lit Plus festival

I’ve found a new blog to read! Yay! Private Secret Diary has had me snorting over my cups of tea all week. A valid addition to the feed reader

The best bits of Twitter

Penguins in a cartoon – what’s not to love?

Want an example of what good customer service can do? From cross customer to Chief Creative Officer. Not bad going

MacGyver in the 21st century

Last year, Penguin ran the “Million Penguins” wiki, an attempt to write a collaborative novel. Now read the report on the project which attempts to bring some academic sense to the madness.

Flickr has some awesome photos of the recent art show under Waterloo. This take on Lascaux has to be one of my favourites

And now with the movies.

Finding Amanda

Brideshead Revisited

The Spirit – so I was hoping he’d have ditched the strong voiceover after Sin City, but apparently not. Still glorious to look at though

Now if you’ll excuse me, while you read all this lot, I am going to go enjoy the sun and perhaps watch some more Farscape

Doesn’t it feel good to be back where we all belong here on BrightMeadow.co.uk? I feel good about it and as I’m moderately hungover, it’s a miracle I can feel good about anything. Before I forget, everyone wish happy (ever so slightly belated) birthday to Neko and Bibby and say hello to fulnic who promised me last night that he would start reading again. He also mentioned being awe of me, but sadly it turns out that awe can’t survive rocking out to Bon Jovi. C’est la vie.

What else is new in the world of Cas? Well, I have short hair again. Properly short. I haven’t taken any pictures yet but when I do, rest assured that I shall share. Why cut it all off? I got bored. The last time I got it bobbed it didn’t work properly and I just got so fed up with it I booked an emergency appointment on Saturday. I probably won’t keep it this short, though it is so ridiculously easy to manage right now, but it is nice not to have to worry about it getting in my eyes and I can legitimately fiddle with it because it’s called “styling”. Felt weird dancing last night though. No hair to head-bang!

It turns out Penguin don’t want me *sniff* I lack the experience they require. It does make you wonder how the frack you are supposed to get the experience in the first place, but hey, I wasn’t expecting this to be easy. The next round of applications are being prepared even now.

Which brings us in our usual circuitous fashion to the roast for this week. Yummy linky goodness.

Got a piece of technology designed for a kid to use? Why not be novel and let the kids review it

Sadly rebooting Bright Meadow has lost me my stats history so I can’t share all the weird and wacky search terms that have brought people to this blog (though Christian Chiropractors does stick in the memory). What are your oddest search terms?

I gave up on my dream of being an astronaut a long time ago (health issues disqualify me if nothing else) but I still secretly cherish the belief that one day I will be in space. Have you got the right stuff, seeing as how there is a shortage of astronauts in the EU.

It has been a little over four months since I sat on my first Razr, necessitating a replacement. At the time, I had only had it a week and I loved it – it was so slim, it fit in my wallet, it had a satisfying cthliunk when you closed it, the keypad was all sci-fi-y. Now I’ve lived with it and I loathe the bloody thing. Yes, it still fits in my wallet and has a satisfying cthliunk, but that sci-fi-y keypad gets up my nose. It has no memory so it is stupidly sluggish to run, when it wants to run at all. It randomly decides to change things (like a whole week where it didn’t let me know when I had a missed call or voicemail – I was wondering why no one seemed to love me that week, till I checked my messages!) and the menu system is just the most unintuitive thing this side of the Fasthosts control panel! But I can’t get rid of the damn thing because there is no phone out there that does all that I want it to (and that I can afford). Not that the Razr does what I want it to either, but it (more or less) lets me make calls and texts. So I totally agree with this article. Completely and wholeheartedly.

I get a bit of schtick at work because I rely on my paper to-do lists at the same time as banning post-it notes and insisting that people email phone messages and jobs to do. I just know that I plan my day better on paper, whilst if people keep giving me things to do on scraps of paper, they get lost. The blend of electronic and paper works for me. Could it work for you too?

I remember the day the CCM brought two of these beauties home. Yes, two! And you could join them with a cable to duel at Tetris! Talking of Tetris, does anyone know if you can get it on the newer Nintendo models? My mum is a Tetris fiend, but she can’t use our old Gameboy (yes, it still works) any more because it is too heavy and big for her RSI.

JK Rowling is wrong – a decent analysis the lawsuit Rowling brought against the print version of the online Potter Lexicon.

Their stupidity at not hiring me withstanding, Penguin are doing some pretty sexy things at the moment playing with the idea of literature on the internet. The last “We Tell Stories” story, ‘The (Former) General’ by Mohsin Hamid is probably my favourite. Not strictly for the story itself, but for the approach. I have this really exciting idea to take the week 1 idea with Google maps, and mash it up with the multi-linearity of week 6, bringing in other multimedia (pictures, video, external websites, etc). Sadly I lack the technical skill or time to do this, but is there anyone out there who might take the challenge up? Please?

If you could get OSX on non-proprietary hardware, would you ditch Windows? Yes. In a heartbeat. I love the look of my PocketCalculator, but it is getting to the end of its life, and I just can’t afford to get a new Mac. I refuse to go back to Windows so I’m in a bit of a fix!

Mac Slocum has hit the nail on the head when he calls for ergonomic design of ebook readers. Note Scoble’s rant at the “flappy paddle thingies” for how irritating bad design can be.

Confused with all the different sorts of ebook formats and readers? I know I frelling am! Here’s a handy guide

The other week I twittered my sheer exasperation that I couldn’t find any good new blogs. I was trying to step outside the 9rules family because I don’t want to the run the risk of getting a blinkered view of what’s out there, but found I was drowning in the sheer amount of crap that is out there.
Steve Lawson jumped right in with some great suggestions including –
David Byrne’s Journal
Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins
Thanks Steve!

I could bang on for hours for the reasons behind the work I do, but I won’t because this isn’t the time or the place. This article should give you some context though

Just two trailers this time, so Abi, try and ration them 😉
Henry Poole is Here
War Inc

Which brings me to the end of the rag bag of links I have found this week. I am off to drown my hangover in endless cups of tea – you sit back, have a lovely weekend, and why not share fun stuff you’ve found in the comments as well?

This post is cross-posted with the alternate Bright Meadow whilst I resolve some server issues

There were a few moments this morning when I didn’t think I would get this Roast written. Settle back whilst I tell you the tale…

I woke up this morning at the ungodly hour of 8.30am – not actually that ungodly I will admit, till you take into consideration that as a rule I am never conscious before 10am at the weekends and, if I am, I make a concerted effort to go back to sleep. But for whatever reason, this morning I just couldn’t get back to sleep so I thought “Sod it! I’ll get up and write the Roast before lunchtime for a change!” Best intentions and all that, because I couldn’t log into Bright Meadow to post the bloody thing. Which kind of threw my morning for a loop! The mystery deepened when it became clear that you could still view the blog, but anything requiring a php script to be triggered (commenting, logging in…) was borked. I could still access the site via FTP but then folders kept randomly disappearing as I tried to edit them and…

You can probably imagine the swearing.

So I have reinstated BrightMeadow2 here at wordpress.com and I expect I will keep on this domain for a little bit till I can be satisfied that all is as it should be. If you read via RSS then I have been sneaky and automatically redirected you, so you don’t have to do ANYTHING to keep on reading the Meadowy-goodness. If you are a non-RSS reader (and I know there are lots of you), then adjust your bookmark to brightmeadow.wordpress.com. That is it. Keep reading and commenting as usual 🙂

(I will be cross-posting things on both blogs when/if I can gain access to brightmeadow.co.uk to try and keep the archives in as much of synch as possible – keep commenting at wordpress.com though if you can. I’m going to take this as a sign that I really need to upgrade my WordPress install and get that new design sorted. We could be on wordpress.com for a little while!)

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… for my lateness, but there are sometimes reasons… not least a trip to Portsmouth and then Brighton for leap-year parties and then a stag do for a very very good friend of mine. I did not return to Southampton until well past Sunday Roast time, then events took over me on Monday and Tuesday.

That and despite 2. 3 degrees I am a technological cretin and have not retained the knowledge of how to log in to Bright Meadow and upload this lovely effort. Which also means I have had to write it in a text editor, and revisit my third year computing course (which I have just realised was six years ago!!!!! Six years!!! WOW) to remember basic html tags, then wait till Cas got back to S’oton after a visit to the homestead so she can upload it for me, so sorry if it isn’t all pretty and several days overdue!

What I did remember/ find time to do was collect linkage to share with you all… and your beloved host, (who will return soon and save you from me I promise!) sent me some too…

I know that a lot of geeks read this blog, and I include myself in that. I’m guessing therefore that most of you already know about the passing of Gary Gygax… (for those not in the know, he co-wrote Dungeons and Dragons (the game, NOT the awful movie!!)). I’m not a huge D &D fan myself, but as the first roleplaying game it spawned the genre of hobby that is responsible for almost all of my non university/ school based friendships. I’m proud to be part of a community of worldwide geeks who produce witty and sweet tributes to their heroeslike these.

Fulnic found this: Cuddly Toy Web Hacker Taunts Met Police and posted it on his facebook, so I’m shamelessly stealing it for the roast waffles, including his comment- ‘love the part that says “badly-spelled message” – they obviously can’t read haxxor-speak. Noobs.’ Indeed.

No wonder I feel like a lump when I consider the women lots of my male friends drool over- not the unrealistic women in magazines, but the even less realistic women in comics! Why all female superheroes look the same

Yet more with the geekery I’m afraid, though this time found by a friend who does not (yet) frequent the meadow… Re: your brains is a very silly song, that a lot of very silly geeks have been making videos to… the WoW video is funny in it’s own right but you really have to listen to the words 😉

Random House are doing the right thing , about DRM as far as me, Cas and Cory Doctorow are concerned.. I’m going to watch this space and see if any of the other big players go the same way.

I’m with Randall- f@~k grapefruit. They are evil, and this particular web comic made me GLAN (giggle like a nutcase) in the PhD office at uni for ages, so much so that everyone looked at me like I was being even crazier than normal!

Cas has found Freakangels a webcomic by the truly gifted Mr Warren Ellis, who also has a great blog. I’m now addicted, I challenge you all not to be…

I think Taylor Kitsch is a bit too pretty to play Gambit – I mean, he should be a drawling rugged charmer from the bayou, right? Josh Holloway would have hit the spot just about right (Sawyer from Lost)…

The NYT has an article that warms my heart and confirms something I’ve felt to be true for a while- the internet is not just for boys. Lets hear it for the geeky girls!

Why 9rules is a nice place to be : memes like this.

And finally, just for Abi so she has some trailers to watch:

The Visitor – Perhaps a little ‘feel good’ and with a bit of a message for America, but looks like a good one to go and watch with the girls…