October 2004 Archives

Polls swinging this way and that! Accusation! Counter-accusation! Claim! Count-claim! He flip-flops! He lies! He's dull! He's an idiot! Bill Clinton! Mass hysteria! Cats and dogs living together!

The election is only a few days away and it's still anybody's guess who's going to win. Personally I passed the point of getting the urge to scream whenever the issue is raised about a week or so back.

And I'm not even in America.

Have you committed a thought crime today, citizen?

They do it on purpose, I swear... Big Finish authors, that is. I was starting on the DCG entry for Arrangements for War on the weekend, and there was one of those annoying alien words in it that I had to listen to five times to work out what they were saying. In Arrangements the word was "Quisapen", a country on the planet Világ. I'm still not sure whether I've spelt it correctly.

Previous such words include:

• The Axis of Insanity: "Molenski Univarious"
• The Twilight Kingdom: "Ondrokkan"
• The Creed of the Kromon: "Eutermesan" (the liner notes were a great help here)

I wonder if the original DisContinuity Guide writers had this problem.

Currently we're about 6 audios behind in the Guide. Two entries are in the process of being compiled, and I've at least listened to The Harvest. The next three Doctor Who audios are sitting on my desk, still in their wrappers... taunting me... daring me to unwrap them... ARGH!

:P

People can get into heated discussions about just about everything, including whether links should be underlined on web pages. Personally I tend to have little trouble distinguishing links, whether they're underlined or not.

Tactical faux pas I've seen today on the web: black text on black background, black text on bright-green background (MY EYES!!!!)

Mind you this is mostly because I've been voting weblogs into industries on BlogShares.

I now have TSV 27 HTMLed and up on the site.

Jon Preddle's article on the chronology of the UNIT years isn't up, because it's all covered in his book Timelink. Part 2 of Murder at Midnight is, of course, plus an interesting article on the Timewyrm Quartet (Or quadrilogy as I guess it could be called :) and there's also quote a lot more artwork this time.

We'll start to catch up more quickly temporally speaking from now on, as 1991 was the last year to have 6 issues.

Best use of Flash EVAR!

I was reminded after writing my previous entry that there's an episode of the cult British comedy The Goodies in which R2D2 not only appeared, but did an impression of a Dalek. Unfortunately the Interweb completely failed to cough up any pictures of the event. Bah!

Until about half an hour ago, I had completely forgotten that R2D2 and C3PO once appeared on Sesame Street many years ago. I fully remembered the episode of the Muppets where Luke and co turn up, of course, but the Sesame Street episode had completely slipped my mind for the last 20 or so years since I saw it.

But that's why Encyclopedia Obscura exists - to remind us that there are weird and wonderful corners of life which shouldn't be forgotten. Like stupid tie-in products.

It's cool, go browse.

A search on Google reveals they rank me as the net's foremost authority on Pease Pottage. Oddly enough, the nearest I've been to England is Chicago, Illinois.