Sunday  the Fourth of August, 2002
"SNAPCHECK: Is 'do you remember?' one of her favourite phrases? Doom."
I picked up a tatty fifties hardback called How To Avoid Matrimony, for some light holiday reading - much of-its-time caddishness, as amusing as it was dated. (Still not sure quite how much the author thought he was saying when he talked about places to "make love".) It contained a handy checklist test for seeing if your current girlfriend is in danger of wanting to marry you, and since very little of the book seems to have made it into the 21st century at all - behold, the automated Froy Marriage Test.

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 Saturday  the Third
I've been thinking about something like this for a while, so that's a good few days of my future life now free - BlogTree maps the genealogy of weblogs, inviting writers to cite the inspirations for their blog's conception. Find out who your vampiric slave-children are, see if you've got any long-lost "siblings" and whether they share any traits with you, and the rest. Even without a "murderer" category for dead blogs, it'll be very interesting to see how this one develops. (Matt Webb is entirely, entirely to blame for the page you are reading now being anything other than a 404 error.)

Interconnection - the Blog Twinning Project connects blogs by their audience-perceived similarity, rather than stated sources of inspiration. And is overdue an overhaul.

Spluttering into metaphorical cornflakes; this morning's "Week on the Web" column in the Grauniad quoting my comment (not really an accusation) from three weeks ago about their blog award being cheap viral publicity. But does anybody bother typing these tangential URLs in?

 Tuesday  the Thirtieth of July
Bless them - little ebooks of Will Self articles, with boldly colourful covers and pointillist Selfs. Meanwhile, his planned screenplay of an updated Picture of Dorian Gray is preparing to surface as a novel instead - he discusses it a bit in this interview.
"Don't Be a Sucker 1947
Producer: U.S. War Department
Sponsor: U.S. War Department
Admonishes Americans that they will lose their country if they let fanaticism and hatred turn them into "suckers." "Let's forget about 'we' and 'they' -- let's think about us!" In the context of the emerging Cold War, this film appears paradoxical.
Descriptors: Prejudice; Cold War; Racism
Run time: 17:21 Color/B&W: B&W Silent/Sound: Sd"
The Internet Moving Images Archive - a cache of American public information films from the last century. [via Projoy@MCiOS]

 Monday  the Twenty-Ninth
Other nearby sequels: K-PAX III has arrived in paperback, and Thief 2 is out on some five-quid budget label.
Sat through Stuart Little 2 with a seven-year-old friend last week. There's something very unsettling about the film's talking-animal hierarchy - that the friendly mouse converses with humans as an unquestioned equal, but the talking cats seem thoroughly inaudible to humans, or are just ignored. And pigeons just make pigeon noises and get kicked out of the way. Universally talking animals I can cope with, but this just feels like I've missed some dark, selective-mutagen class-war backplot.
In the grand tradition of Infocom filling game boxes with shiny rubbish to increase the product's physical sense of worth, feelies.org are offering to arrange and ship in-game trinkets and printouts to go along with independently-produced interactive fiction. A magical treatise on divination, a genuine New York subway token, a newspaper clipping ("Do You Want to Quit Smoking?"), a canary-colored pill of rephasia...

Admirably, they also link direct to their suppliers if you'd rather organise it yourself, or have a simple, single whim you want to bludgeon. [via Crummy]

As Above
Brain children. Those that overlap the Internet.
Dvorak
The improvised card game.
The Smaller Picture
Hive-mind artistry.
Blog Twinning Project
Democratic blog-pairing.
Two-Word Guestbook
Sign it.
More Besides
Kevan dot org.
Online cliques. Trespassers may be welcome.
Upsideclone
Stem-cell fiction.
Hate the Stupid
Suffering fools.
Mornington Crescent
In outer space.
Exquisite Corpses
Blind collaborative art.
In the bookpile. About to read, or currently reading, or meaning to take back to the library.
Underground
Haruki Murakami
A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
Christopher Brookmyre
How To Avoid Matrimony
Herald Froy
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
Incidental music. Ohrwurmen or otherwise.
Here Come The Impostors
Devant
Other weblogs. The ones I make a point of returning to a lot.
Daily : AngryBlog Crummy Inside Joke Interconnected LinkMachineGo RavenBlog Venusberg

Mostly : About as Funny... The Blast Blue Ruin Capacious Holdall Digital Trickery Found Icarus Says If You Must Life as it Happens Néablog Nocto Orbyn Peace Dividend Qwertyuiop Sore Eyes The View from Here Why Should I Listen To You?

(Updated UK Blogs)

Supporting cast. That have Web pages. In alphabetical order.
Adam Alice Cerra Chrissy Dan Dave Dunx Eperdu John Lori Nik Paul Raven Riana Sandy Simes Tracy Tyrethali Yao Zarba
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