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The only sensible comment of the whole financial malarkey comes from 2004, by briefly shiny pop duo Johnny Boy (which I also posted in this) – and their single You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve:
I’m actually about to buy another pair of shoes online right now, in case anybody should think about absolving me of my hypocrisy.
Compare and contrast:
and
My vote’s going to the dude pretending to be a dude confused for another dude.
Just to mention it because Chris and I found this particular joy of the internet last night (while pondering the wisdom of my ill-formed plan to host a “come as Jonathan Meades” party) – the YouTube user MeadesShrine has a vast array of clips and full shows from the back catalogue of the perfect man himself. There was a plan for a DVD set from the Beeb, but it seems to have been shelved temporarily, for reasons that pass human understanding. As MeadesShrine says on their user page:
until the dvds arrive, lets congregate and genuflect here for a while.
“re-availablization” will be our clumsy watchword.
I’ll also take this opportunity to re-note my observation, for those who don’t follow my Twittering, that – while I have respect for Hugo Weaving – Meades should have played Agent Smith in The Matrix. A man delivering lengthy monologues in patrician tones about the state of the world while wearing a dark suit and sunglasses? Meades all over.
Flickr is a popular photo hosting and sharing site. It is really quite good. Users can either have a free account, which has limitations, or pay $25 a year for an unlimited service. A few days ago, Flickr added video hosting to the site, for paid members. This prompted outpourings of absolute rage from the paid users, at the sheer affrontery of the company in giving them an extra service at no added cost. Also, Flickr is owned by Yahoo, which Microsoft is currently trying to buy, although Yahoo is trying quite hard not to be bought by them. This also added to the users’ anger, as they criticised the Flickr staff for working for a company whose parent company might be bought by another company.
The thread in which this all gets shouted about includes this wonderful comment from somebody called “mikeossur”:
This is the new America,
Health care for the rich – only.
Shite software by MS$
1000 year war.
George Bush thinks he is king.
Flickr is a photo site.
As Speak You’re Branes would say: you are a gibbon’s minge.
ARE YOU? ARE YOU?
(These tears were brought to your eyes in association with this awesome MeFi thread.)
This, I think, goes particularly well with this one that I blogged a few months back.
Also well worth reading: A great Wilson/Factory MetaFilter thread from 2002, filled with fascinating reminiscences from People Who Were There.
We can all stop and go home now after this.
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