Islingword Street

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I've started putting my posts to interesting links on Tumblr (here), but anything longer will remain here.

LOLIZLINGWORDSTREET

I think the LOLinator (link leads to LOLCATS version of this blog) may be a sign of the end times.

Movement to the left of you

Interesting article in Salon (sub or watch an ad, sorry) about the way that the leftish "netroots" of the Democratic Party are aping the tactics of the conservative movement.

Yikes!

I've just been seeing what search terms led people to this blog ("Spinach Poisoning" is always popular, I should make that post more interesting).

Two close together, one from the Netherlands and one from the UK, showed a new and disturbing trend (of two). The second was comparatively reasonable: "Stephanie Flanders married children". The first, however, was "Stephanie Flanders nude" for which, following research, I see I am the second Google listing.

Sorry to disappoint, guys, but they don't really do that sort of thing on Newsnight...

Warnock's dilemma

or, why did no-one comment on my post?

Samantha Smith & Rachel Corrie

An interesting and poignant post on Metafilter concerns Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl who wrote to Yuri Andropov asking him whether the USSR was going to declare war on the US. She died young, in a plane crash.

Matteo makes an interesting comment comparing the treatment of her death in pre-Internet days and the treatment of Rachel Corrie on right-wing blogs.

Blog styles

Tom Roper found a passage of Virginia Woolf (talking about her diaries) that nicely sums up his ambitions for his blog (and mine for mine).

A bad party in LA

Demonbaby reports, and complains about guys in bands.

Thus - the company with no clue

Just to mention the pain I'm going through trying to cancel my old Demon broadband service. Outsourced call centres, clueless stubborn staff, pointless bureaucracy AND a complaints email address that bounces back with 'user unknown'. I'm betting their customer complaints are WAY down this quarter.

Chaucer's blogge

Geoffrey Chaucer has a blog. It's a great rede. Also via Metafilter, who are on form this evening.