Now I’m not normally one to name drop (ok, I am), but I went to watch a movie with John Prescott last night. I certainly didn’t mean to, but while I was waiting outside the cinema for my friend Charlie to arrive, a dark green Jaguar pulled up, and a big guy wearing an earpiece jumped out to open the back door for his passenger. [...]
Better late than never
I’m always terrible at remembering birthdays, but Happy Birthday for yesterday World Wide Web. At 15 I guess you’d better start thinking about what you really want to do with yourself.
The Atlantic does Wikipedia
The Atlantic has the best article I’ve seen on the phenomenon that is Wikipedia. It’s a really detailed and interesting history of why and how it came about. I like this bit about why people contribute: “Imagine that you happen upon your pet subject, or perhaps even look it up to see how it’s being treated. And what do you find? Well, this date is [...]