Who the hell chose their new layout? That’s one seriously ugly site. I can’t believe somebody seriously thought two columns of blogroll plus ad and *then* the main content, squeezed up all the way to the right was a good idea.
Crooked Timber has the same problem, only there the two filler columns are on the right.
How inane are the majority of blog comments? Holy Taco took the time to work it out for 8 popular blogs:
I wouldn’t know how ours work out myself as hardly anyone ever comments here and those who do are, of course, members of a select group of erudite blogcognoscenti whose pearls of wisdom shouldn’t be wasted on the common herd.
Well, at least that’s what I’m telling myself.
….how fed up I am of seeing things I blogged about over a year ago now being written about in the Guardian as though they were something new?
Note to newspapers: do keep up.
More handlebar-eye views of Amsterdam, again unashamedly stolen from Amsterdamized, here doing the loop from Oud West through the Grachten and then via the Rijksmuseum to the park. All on a lovely summer’s day, and all set to mellow music. Enjoy, especially if you’re desk-bound in the heat.
There is a woman on the radio talking about the Bush adminsitration, the GOP and the Iraq war – a discussion precipitated by former Bush spokesman Scott McLellan’s about-faced memoirs – and they are discussing the link between cognitive dissonance and wingnuts like its a new discovery. Arrrgh. Where have these BBC bods been for the past eight years?