Some stuff

I'm a huge fan of Bjork and this video says it all about her. Brave, inventive and demented.

I have weak web design skills, which I should really boost up, because it's very portable, lucrative work. This resource could be helpful in that quest, but it does go to show how much there is to learn.

More usefully, here are a ton of ways to make things happen in CSS. Come on. You know you want to look nice. If anyone feels the urge to try out their skills on this site, I'll undertake to use any design you come up with.

iPods are the best thing since sliced bread. Almost as good as French bread, actually. One of their downsides though is that the music on them can't be transferred and adding music from more than one source can be awkward. Sharepod provides functionality to do that. I haven't tried it yet but it looks eminently useable.

One shouldn't laugh at foreigners' attempts to render English, particularly if we struggle to learn even the first word of their language, but I was in stitches reading a Chinglish menu on this site. Click on "may I take your order" if you want something surreal to eat.

This is fantastic, a brilliant study of the grammatical structure of "fuck you". It's in the great tradition of academics that might be called "serious parody". A practitioner uses the techniques of his discipline to examine something to comic effect. You probably need some background in linguistics to get the joke but it's still a good read. The man responsible is a legend in linguistics; a maverick who took on the dominant paradigm (and lost) with great verve and humour.

Anyone who surfs the web even a little bit can find pr0n. The place is swimming in it. Dr Zen does not link to ordinary pr0n sites because, well, you can get your own. (If you're struggling to find sites that don't trap you in a nightmare of popups and dumpers, try one of these.) But I will pass on interesting sites if I stumble across them, and this is one. This is very much in the pr0n as art school, so you can rub one out while you're pretending to explore the human condition (tumescent, once you get about halfway down). Some of it is quite stunning (and nearly all is completely NSFW). A question does arise: we all know that pr0nography exploits women, but is that okay when you are creating art?

posted by Dr Zen @ 9:29 pm