Quotes

'Used to be, you'd get off your horse, cut its neck, suck some blood, then ride on. We have cars now, but still eat horse.'

Dmitry, as told to Robert Reid


'Two years ago I got John Peel and now he's dead. Last year I got Countdown's Richard Whiteley and he died. This year I got my cousin and I have to keep checking his pulse.'

Former Beirut hostage Terry Waite has trouble finding a celebrity to open his local fete.


'Eolas is not a wealthy company, but sometimes events happen that make you put things into proper perspective. Hurricane Katrina did that for us. We knew we had to try to help in some way, and we decided that doing what we do best, making new kinds of software, would be the most effective way we could contribute to the effort.'

Indisputably, a bunch of total wankers (allegedly)

That segues neatly (not) into this depressing article about disaster management, written funnily enough (for today's media), by an expert.

Thinking about: the politics of pictures, John Hartley, Marshall McLuhan & Neil Postman

Listening to: 80s soul & disco (thanks to Stef for the gift from all those years back)

Wondering: if Pradip will finish & return 'Freakonomics' by Monday, now that I have incentivised him by dumping more of my library's contents onto his desk. Probably not. After all, he has a plastic flowerpot masquerading as a pulsating clitoris on his desk (and he told me it was for his wife).