Friday

Traditionally, on a Friday, on the Internet, you blog about cats. So, without further ado:

The grater of two weevils

The Blog of the damned

Admittedly nothing in there yet but it's only just started. In one of those odd little quirks, the email informing me about its creation got quarantined in a spam filter. Gets me wondering just how much Forteana2.0 gets caught in spam nets.

Not sure why but the name "The Blog of the damned" is enough to make me smile. For those wanting a headsup (because I know that nearly 3 people read this blog), I have a couple of posts about such things on the transliteracy blog.

Just because

Proof that I actually do some work from time to time

Thanks to Jess for posting this.

Giant Battle Monsters

deleriad is a Giant Squid that has Bulletproof Skin and a Computer for a Brain, Expands when Attacked, and can Generate Electricity. Strength: 6 Agility: 3 Intelligence: 12 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat deleriad, enter your name and choose an attack: fights deleriad using Strength Agility Intelligence

Bat Man from the 1800s

This is from Shorpy - "the 100 year old photo blog". Shorpy is one of my favourite wastes of time. Over on one of my work blogs (Transliteracy.com) I've been ruminating about the possibilities of folklore2.0. The labelling of this image as Bat Man 1.0 on Shorpy is playful but interesting for that reason.

Brave New World

The map is from a really rather wonderful webcomic called xkcd.com.

Cat blogging

It's true. What kind of odd person would write a blog and pretend it was written by a cat? And as for cat haiku... Good job you wouldn't catch me engaging in such frivolity.

Narrative Multimodality conference

workshop_wiki, originally uploaded by Jess L..

Attended April 28-29 and helped set up the wiki.