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Seems the helicopter game was a bit of a hit in certain quarters. I’m sure Steve will be looking for a rehab group shortly. Favourite web find of the week was John’s Switch Ad. For those not geeky enough to have watched Apple’s Switch Ads, it’s based on one of them but with a slightly more political text. Perhaps I shouldn’t have watched it quite so much, but the combination of ‘geek’ and ‘George Bush? He’s a monkey’ was too much for me. I think my favourite line has to be ‘Patriotism is the rohypnol of the American people’. A generalisation, perhaps, but still…. ...

Harv (known at steve’s blog as Evil Harv) sent me a link to this. I think he’s trying to tell me something. Hopefully it’s a reminder to blog, but it could be a little backhanded. I’ll blog properly (if such a thing exists) at some point this week, but for now suffice it to say that the end of term left me thinking I could finally get some work done. But then a certain game appeared on the horizon and scattered all work before it. ...

9 gigs. 4 films. 1 website. several assignments. too many meetings. James.

The plan is for a place in that right-hand bar which will show the ten most recent stories on any of a selection of sites. The situation is a place in that right-hand bar which shows links to the ten most recent entries on the delicatessen blog. One will become the other very soon. In other news, it has come to my attention that people have been taking issue with what I write here and not posting a comment about it. There’s a pretty easy way to rectify that. To clarify, Reading does indeed have two multiplexes and a campus ‘film theatre’. But exposure to that sort of cinema availability pushed my requirements for ‘decent cinema’ still higher. Perhaps I should admit right now that having a decent cinema really just meant having a cinema that shows the films I want to see, when I want to see them. Confession over, I’m going to look at cinema tickets online. ...

What exactly is wrong with trying to source an antidote to nerve gas?

As can be seen from the note at the top of this blog and the general lack of updates, time is in short supply. Partly as a result and partly because I like to get information out, this isn’t the only site whose design is taking place in public. Just try everydayapocalyptic.org for evidence. Other than that, blackalicious are foremost in my mind right now. I was more than a little surprised to see in the university newspaper that they were appearing in Reading. It’s rare that Reading gets a musical treat like that (other than at delicatessen of course) and that’s rather compounded by the lack of publicity. Despite that the venue was packed out. Pretty lousy sound (far too loud, far too muddy) was redeemed by buckets of charisma and some rather tasty tunes and beats. Sadly, this was the last date of the tour. Hopefully, they will be back. DJ Shadow and Blackalicious, both within a month. That’s quite a delight. ...

With thanks to Zeldman, I feel it time to point you towards googlism.com. Sad though it may be I’ve had a great while typing in various friends’ names (mine is just too identified with a certain industry) and seeing what pops out. I’ve found some gems. Do share yours.

reading’s premiere acoustic music event is….. For those in the area, check out page 9 of the current Blah Blah.

I think I’m hooked. Made it to the local " Don’t Invade Iraq" demonstration. 100 people isn’t bad for Reading and apparently good reports have been coming in from across the country. I’m always torn between wanting to support these things in Reading and wanting to join the masses in London, where there’s likely to be a better atmosphere and more friends. This time it was well worth staying put.

Malachi’s not the most common of names. But on the net so many of us use pseudonyms (and even multiple identities) that it wasn’t a huge surprise to see someone posting under that name on the university christian union message boards. It was probably when it first claimed that Malachi was its real name that I was rather surprised and perhaps a little suspicious. It claimed to be from Tallahassee in Florida and to have applied to study at Southampton University next year. It claimed that it was an agnostic interested in the Christian faith and asked some interesting (and a lot of not so interesting) questions. It was nearly believable. There was just the right level of knowledge of VeggieTales and Left Behind to suggest a familiarity with church PR in the US. But I was suspicious. It offered no explanation for its presence on our little set of boards and why on earth it would want to join the infighting and stereotyping that typify so many of the exchanges. ...