nocto

the british tourist authority has a new advertising campaign that’s apparently all about how eccentric britons are. (i often wear a bowler hat in fields of flowers and waltz through trafalgar square of course) what strikes me is that two of them feature wellington boots:

• wellington boots rain down on a london cab
• a wellington boot throwing contest at cennan castle, south wales

does no one else in the world wear wellies? how do you splosh in puddles with if you don’t have wellies?

these are not the version numbers you are looking for. move along.
move along.

jamie’s humour has been elided from the party faq by someone at mozilla.

unreliable facts from the brains trust. i especially like:

the original design for the 3.5 floppy disk was developed by a bunch of designers one boozy friday evening in a pub. they were working on new designs and ran out of paper so peeled a beer mat apart and drew the design on it. this is why the 3.5 inch disk is the same size as a standard square beer mat.

not all recruitment ads lie:

well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented c/c++/unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet.

that was jeff bezos in august 1994. i think his company succeeded in it’s pioneer task.