Day of joyous procastination

Ok, it's obvious I'm not at work today. I have discovered BookRabbit and developed a new obsession. Check this out:



Oh how I wish I owned books with as many different coloured spines as this person.

BookRabbit lets you sniff around other peoples' reading habits and stacking preferences; you can also buy books that are as cheap if not cheaper than Amazon and shipping is free - result!

For a better explanation of the merits of BookRabbit and other virtual bookshelving sites, read Hermione Buckland-Hoby's blog post on Guardian Books.

Chatty cats

I know, I know, I promised great literary volumes . . . but for now you'll have to content yourselves with the chatty Teletext cats . . . I just love these guys!




I was inspired by the cracking squirrel video posted by the secret squirrel herself here.

Weston spooky mare

This is spooky Birnbeck Pier in Weston super mare.

As you can probably tell it's deserted and seems to be begging to be turned into the setting for a horror film.

My weekend in Weston deserves more time and effort than I can afford at the moment to devote to writing about it. I will endeavor to collect my thoughts and report back later this evening.

Image courtesy of Synwell Liberation Front via Flickr

Leaping Nutter!

I just could not believe this story when I read it in the Mail, but then I saw the pictures!

This man drank 6 cans of beer, took some photographs of the sunset and then leapt across the Grand Canyon - my stomach twists just thinkihng about it.

Future Web

I haven't posted for a few days because I've been panicking about my exam, which was yesterday and was fine.

Saw this post on the Publishing 2.0 blog and thought it was quite interesting. It's about proprietary applications/networks like Facebook and whether they are the future of the Web. Here's an extract but it's worth reading Scott Karp's article in full.

• Google CEO Eric Schmit has wondered in the past why some companies are still “betting against the internet“

The web is made possible by open, interoperable standards for content and communication, e.g. http, HTML, hyperlink, SMTP, etc. — will the future of the web be based on closed, proprietary standards for content and communication?

No company can touch Google’s ability to monetize the use of the open web — the more people use the web, the more money Google makes. Can Facebook compete with Google by eschewing the open web and open standards? Or is Facebook betting against the internet?

Hmmmm…..

We-Think

This is the video that Charles Leadbeater showed at the talk I went to see at the British Library a month or so ago. It's really worth 4 minutes of your time.

Blocking out censorship in China

This is a new ad campaign by French group RSF, which is targeting regimes that restrict freedom of the press.