linkery, wabbage

[freckles_and_doubt]

I should be marking third-year essays on vampires. Instead, I'm cruising the internet looking for distraction, a technique doomed to success. This follows an entire weekend spent reading highly eroticised Spike/Buffy fanfic. I plead extenuating circumstances. Term has just ended, and I have a cold.

Iain Banks talks about his new Culture novel. Also about his hatred for Bush, Blair, and the Iraq war. Lovely quote from his new mainstream novel: "The USA is a great country full of great people. It's just their propensity as a whole for electing idiots and then conducting a foreign policy of the utmost depravity that I object to." Oh, yeah.

I always found Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog a bit, I dunno, twee? Then they published LOLPilgrims.


This one, in particular (it's the Pardoner) is such a complex piece of cultural layering, and speaks with such horrible truth to the academic experience, that I laughed until I choked. On quick review I'm not sure anyone else who reads this blog will necessarily appreciate all the layers, which are very English-geek heavy, but allow me my moment of isolate glee.

A World Without Oil. This is a newish acronym to me, an ARG - Alternate Reality Game. It's a strange, bizarre, fascinating concept.

On the wabbage front, non-befriended readers may have noticed the random blog redesign. Judgements welcome, I'm not sure I'm happy with it, and have every intention of frittering away a goodly part of the afternoon with more fiddling.

Comments

Re: Hmm

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

aargh! the colour is not really dark maroon brown on my home monitor, it's a sort of rich purple. Which looks, I admit, like a really dark brown on this monitor on campus. It also looks crap. Will sort when I get home, this computer is refusing to let me fiddle with the LJ colour settings. Am I frustrated? oh, yes.

Um, where's the grey/white on black? There should be white on dark blue and white on purple in the header and the comment footers, but not anywhere else, I agree that it's not eye-friendly for large blocks of text.

Re: Hmm

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Blue? Purple? I'm getting a marooney stripe on the top, the rest of the background is black. Maybe my screen is a goth-screen. Well, it _is_ a Philips :P. Phleep mentioned the velvety-red brocade stuff. Pity I missed it.