Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air

Games to play while you're waiting for Swing Flu:

Pandemic II - or "The Madagascans are going to outlive us all"*

Swine Flu Sneeze

Got any more illness based games?

---

Television Theme Tunes - I've maintained for a while that we have brilliant sport's music in the UK (to make up for being crap at sports, I guess). This was a good line of thought to follow (BBC Cricket, Match of the Day, Grandstand, Snooker, Wimbledon...), but now I'm just downloading every theme I every liked.

Going to work on Tuesday is going to be so much fun. Knightmare, Crystal Maze, Avengers... I need walls to vault and dragons to hit on!

Ohshit, they have QI. Now there's a theme that makes me smile.



*All of the islands are hard, but Madagascar's a running joke now, to the extent it made it onto the Swine Flu wiki

Oh god,this is just brilliant. The Numa Numa song (Dragostea din tei) with operatic stylings. It's really really good. Thanks to osprey_archer for the link

Since I'm video linking, have FettDance and that Drench Ad with Brains for some puppet awesomeness (okay, so Fett is stop motion, for the most part, and both have a little cgi...).

While we're on puppets, the muppets have their own youtube sites. Bit of viral marketing there. That's Statler and Waldorf's, though they've favourited all the others so far. So they can mock them, of course.

And to sum it all up, thanks to aearonlinn on insanejournal for linking The Evolution of Dance, one of the few YouTube videos of that length that I don't get bored and navigate away from.

ETA That Quantum Of Solace vid I keep talking about. HmHm Hm HmHm Hm, de-da de-de da. The Something of Boris, is that what is was?

---

I acheived a proper lie in today. Well, 9:40, anyway, which is after work normally starts, so I had that satisfaction. For me, that's quite an achievement, though I did stay up to 1AM reading about how LJ (and most large social media and social networking sites) is following an unsustainable business model (parts 1, 2 and 3). With OpenID so easy to use these days, I'm thinking about Inksome, and keeping an eye on DreamWidth. To be honest, none of the LJ clones are likely to attract venture capitalists for a long time to come, thanks to LJ itself, which means most will stay fairly stable. I just find it all fascinating (and I won't be taking advantage of the account sale, as a result).

Related: backed up LJ using Lj-Backup, and now I can't find it. I moved my original backup folder to my second drive (weird Acer thing), and LjBackup stopped working, so I uninstalled and downloaded it again. It worked, but I can't find the folder again. I wonder if it's been confused by the other backup folder, despite being on a different drive.

Nothing to do today, not even washing or shopping if I don't want to, except proofread an MA thesis (meep!) and get around to doing the magazine. Oh, and watch tons of scrapheap challenge.

13 Tremendous treehouses

I finally picked up my new shoes. They're a bit tight across the toes (I have freakishly wide feet for their length), and I probably wouldn't walk back from the post office in them again, but they're very cute, and cost just ove £5.

I wish some of those publishers I emailed would reply. Especially the one whose competition ends soon.

Reorganising my bookmarks (because I don't like scrolling) and I realised I hadn't watched Trevis for a while. He dances. And more.

Trevis is actually the name of the car, but since I don't speak German, I'm going to assume it's the guy's name too. And that the site is pitching a small Japanese car to gay German men who like dressing as Americans. As long as Trevis doesn't put his shirt on, I really don't care.

Accordingly to zombie_thing the categories, roughly translated, are "Dance for me, Baby", "Look into my eyes" and "Surprise me".

ETA - I'll throw in some recut trailers from YouTube, too: Shining, Scary Mary (Poppins), Top Gun, The Ring, Titantic: Two the Surface and The Wicker Man.

I knew I wasn't better, but I didn't realise I was worse until I spoke to people today. My voice is... croaky. Desirous of frequent soothings. I have a nice rotation of Lemsip, Strepsils and Cough Syrup going on. The mess room at work reeks since it flooded, so I spent my fifteen minute break in the costume corridor.

Halfway through the day, I got this stuck in my head. Who knew STDs could be so catchy? XP

Also in my very small collection of Youtube links (I don't like watching stuff on my laptop, but that's rant for another time) are Shirley Bassey doing Pink's Let's Get This Party Started and Peel the Reel, an Avenger fanvid set to an official mix of the theme. You've probably already seen the medieval help desk, and I've pimped HSM2's I Don't Dance for it's extreme slashiness before (but it's also available in hindi!). There's the fast forwarded scene from Dr Who's Human Nature episode that a lot of Who fans have probably seen (or should!), and Simon Amstell being out-gayed by John Barrowman.

Abslutely unmissable: Star Trek and the Holy Grail, and the Lake District's Tourist Board's reimaging of Wordsworth's Daffodils... as a rap... by a squirrel. No, seriously, it's on their website too, should you want to download a copy, in case you're ever caught hort without the internet and really need a rapping squirrel to remind you roughly from behind of Wordsworth's most famous.

I should really consolidate my youtube links in my favourites list. I actually have quite a few.

ETA Jonathon Ross snogging Neil Gaiman and Neil Gaiman's Youtube account

ETA2 Get 'Being Human' made into a series - courtesy of rhube, for all those who saw and loved it. iPlayer has it, if you missed it.

Been catching up on the last three episodes of Torchwood. I'm actually quite glad I didn't read any spoilers/summaries/reactions for episode 6, Reset.

Havesome DW/TW links:

The 10 Doctors - Very well drawn webcomic, featuring all 10 doctors (in the styleof The Three Doctors or The Five Doctors).

Torchwood babiez - 'nother comic, this time featuring Torchwod and Who as toddlers.

Captain's Blog - BBC America provide with with Jack's blog. Few episodes out of date at the mo.

llassah has posted the Fandom 'That's Amore', which gives me so much geeksquee.

Oh, and those random Dalek links I mentioned: Strange Dalek facts, Daleks are defeated by a mole and the anatomy of a dalek.

The random kitten generator, courtesy of daeger

Latawnya the Naughty Horse Learns to Say No to Drugs

The QI website, including many clips of Stephen Fry, Quite Interesting news, and information about the QI Club.

Inky Circus. I don't really know what or why this is, other than an ezine, but some of the articles are interesting. I found it while looking for the below:

Lots and lots of pretty stock photos of land, sea and air

Project Gutenburg. Lots of books, out of copyright, online, for free!

That'll do for now. If you want any links to games, random time-wasting websites, useful resources, or fandomy stuff, ask and ye shall receive. Tihs is just a fairly random selection of recently discovered links.

Well, that'll teach me for going looking for references for Greenhelm clothing. Now I am suffering from fantasy want. Medieval-style clothing. I want the bowman's and the warrior's tunics!

More random online gmaes. Because if I'm not getting any workdone, neither should you. I found most of these on LittleFluffyIndustries

Kitten on the Keyboard - Stroke your keyboard to make the cat purr

Endora's Dream - distort that guy of Bewitched's face. More fun than I'd expected it to be

Stackopolis - It's like lego and tetris had a baby. A competitive baby.

Grow - Everything on here is great. There;s a whack-a-mole equivalent, there's a growing plant thing, and there's the many variations of Grow: logic puzzles where you have to work out what order to add the items (sometimes hte wrong order can produce cool results too).

Zookeeper - I lost this, but have found it again. One of those 'swap the squares to get a line' games. I'm addicted ot many of these, so I'll just leave you with this one.

Sveerz - a remember-the-sequence game. After playing this too much, I started hearing the voice in my dreams.

Zuma - relatively well known (Yahoo has nicked it), but still very addictive

Lasers - Mmm, physicy.

Fly Guy - A nice, non-competitve stress reliever.

Heheh. Neil Gaiman versus Margaret Atwood. (and Neil's reaction)

In other news, I really will be reading today. No, honest. Not hitting refresh on Skyehawke repeatedly in the hope that I can update Greenhelm, or adding more to the vampire thing I started last night, or praying yet again that my package has arrived. Or making grumpy noises at my body for deciding to act like every other girl's after years of mutually beneficial ignoring of each other. Or watching Look Around You, which we taped last night.

Or going to lectures... Oh, right. ttfn.

Okay

( sites that could be imitated so far: )

Problems include:
- desire to make my own image
- dislike of tiny spaces for text (which seems to be bizarrely fashionable)
- need it to work at 800x600
- lack of idea of what I actually want, other than horizontal and static menu bar always visible.
- desire to actually build it myself...
- ...it's not that I can't build my own site, I'm just too lazy to and I get easily distracted when things don't happen hte way I want them to

Basically, I want it quite simple, low graphics (but something nice), and easy to navigate. minimal scrolling. I like my pictures and links to sit still while the content scrolls, which isn't possible with most of these. I'm trying to avoiding liking the above sites for their graphics, because I'm going to change those, but then I see that mst of the layouts are not only basically the same, but not what I want.

The more sites I look at, the better an idea I get of what I want, and the less it looks like any of those sites. Most of them would suit weblogs down to a tee, but I can't imagine having that many links on a site. I'd end up with something that looked dreafully lopsided and empty. I guess I'm one of the few who prefers text to graphics when it comes to layout.

( sites with free layouts )

Must go now. will edit and continue this post later. Tis another linkspree-designated post, see.

ooh fuck. just been told by norton we have a virus. right. will finish this later. again.