Here is an interesting site about the English language: Wordcount.

This is excellent for looking up swearwords. I’m surprised at how low some of them are actually… I’m not the only one looking up swearwords by the way — look at this (Thanks to Alan for pointing this out)!

Duncan is more popular than gentlemen as a whole (as well as Norwich)! Thank you very much, speakers of English!

This is interesting aswell.

Via Norm, who used it to look up words like ‘its’. What a bore!

I’m posting this in every single category to make sure everybody who might need this gets it.

I’ve decided that my categories are a mess, and tomorrow I’m going to attempt to clean them up a bit. I’ll be creating new categories, deleting rubbish old ones, and changing where they go. Some posts might end up in different places. Just a heads up, because it does mean that some feed URLs, and indeed website URLs, will change.

Max Mosley: Have problems with the FIA? Well don’t tell me about it then.

Red Bull sign Coulthard for 2006.

Update: Now the drivers are against Mosley aswell.

Update: Mark Webber gets a potty mouth because he’s so angry with the FIA.

Paul Stoddart is still angry aswell:

The teams have had a gutful of Max. Either he goes or F1 as we know it today will go.

Update: Red Bull joins the other Michelin teams in appealing.

Update: Secrets.

I’m thinking that this isn’t real, but Onlineblog says:

This sounds like a leftover from April 1, but so far, no one seems to think it’s a spoof.

These panties will monitor the location of your daughter, wife or girlfriend 24 hours a day, and can even monitor their heart rate and body temperature.
Based on pioneering research developed by the U.S. military at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), we have brought this revolutionary technology, previously only available to the military, to you!

These “panties” can trace the exact location of your woman and send the information, via satellite, to your cell phone, PDA, and PC simultaneously! Use our patented mapping system, pantyMap®, to find the exact location of your loved one 24 hours a day.

Idea: If you can’t trust “your woman” to wear pants without checking up on them it’s probably a lost cause.

In a previous post I likened the PlayStation 3 to a fridge door.

Well it turns out that I was mistaken — it’s actually a grill.

Via Gamesblog.

Geograph is a very interesting project collecting photographs representing every square kilometre in the British Isles.

At the moment there are three for Kirkcaldy (although technically two of them are for Dysart and one of them is practically there anyway).

I might go out and take some photographs for it now! I just need to find a pretty part of Kirkcaldy…

Via New Links.

I’d quite like to be filling in the FIA’s survey asking — *gasp* — Formula 1 fans stuff like, you know, what would Formula 1 fans like Formula 1 to be like?

Unfortunately for the server, too many Formula 1 fans want to have a say. Hmm.

So it seems as though it wasn’t a hoecs.

Laura K. Krishna is a plagiarist dumb kid.

You see, you’re not supposed to know her surname any more. Even though if you just scroll down you’ll see it.

It must be pretty agonising for her. But it’s all her damn fault. I have no sympathy for her. She was caught plagiarising. She offered somebody money to write her paper for her, and apparently didn’t even send out the money. Lie after lie after lie.

Well these past couple of days have been heavy on the blog and especially the linklog.

I was going to post this link down here to make sure it got more attention — I’m never sure if people check the linklog. And then I realised that despite the fact I only posted it yesterday, it’s already been displaced by 15 other links!

But make sure you see this — 7:35 in the morning. It’s fantastic.

Via [random acts of alex].

New Links have another site of free fonts up their sleeve. This time it’s a site dedicated to bands’ / films’ / videogames’ fonts.

I was just thinking of writing another post about fonts, inspired by this thread on WATMM.

I stand by my post:

Arial is shit.

Helvetica is a million times better.

Comic Sans ought to be made illegal.

Trebuchet MS is nice.

But Verdana is versatile.

But I forgot to mention Georgia! Oh man. And when I thought about it, it actually struck me how great it is. I don’t like many serif fonts, but Georgia is just awesome. It looks very traditional, old-fashioned and formal. But it has a very contemporary feel to it. It looks sharp and it is also odd, but not in a way that means you can’t read it.

I did once attempt to change my blog’s main font to Georgia, but it actually looked rubbish. That might have been because it totally clashed with the orange and grey colour scheme.

Speaking of chaning fonts, Lucidia Sans? I’ve been thinking about it…

Tim Ireland’s Backing Blair is up. I don’t think I’m backing Backing Blair though.

…when the election comes around, we want people who live in ’safe’ Labour seats or marginal ones to vote for the candidate most likely to beat the Labour candidate. Not the anti-war-person, or the seems-like-a-nice-person, but the candidate most likely to beat the Labour candidate.

The Lib Dems were 4^th in both of the constituencies that largely make up the new Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath constituency. And I can’t envisage myself voting for anybody else at the moment.

Also, via Nick Barlow, a big General Election messageboard, Vote2005. Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath already has its own thread. That’s handy.

James Malcolm’s blog, U.K Future, has been relaunched. He is a Conservative, and we don’t always see eye-to-eye. But I like his blog because it sets its own agenda, which can be a nice breather if 95% of all political bloggers are posting about the same things. Err yeah, and I gave him a hand with the design and stuff. So take a look if you want.

I’ve been making more changes this time. Permalinks have changed. Old ones will still work but new ones are groovier. The last time I tried this, the whole thing collapsed, but I think I’ve done it correctly this time. But this is just a warning just in case - if anything has gone wrong please tell me.

The linklog is back! It’s in the very top right, although now I’m thinking of swapping the black and orange columns around… I decided to use del.icio.us, since that seems to be the standard now. Hover over the link to see the tooltip, where I’m putting “via blog x.”

I’m thinking about what to do about spam. People are still having problems with Trencaspammers, so I’m going to have to ditch it and try to tackle it another way. But before I decide what to do, Trencaspammers is staying in the meantime.

Blogging awards, eh? Personally, I hate them all. Except for the ones which this blog is nominated for. So I hate them all.

Actually, I simply think there are too many. The Guardian had a good one last year, but I think it’s over a year since the last one so it was perhaps just a one-off.

I’d pay more attention to The Bloggies, if I had actually heard of most of the blogs nominated. As it happens, I’ve maybe heard of about eight of them.

A Fistful of Euros’ own awards, The Satin Pajama Awards, are probably significantly smaller, but at least I’ve heard of plenty of the blogs listed there. The problem is, once you’ve voted for Chase me ladies, I’m in the cavalry for Best Weblog, it’s a bit difficult to justify voting for anything else in any of the other categories which it’s nominated for. The only other blog I voted for was Europhobia, in Best Political Weblog. I don’t read any French blogs. Or German blogs. I will probably have a good look at the winners of Afoe’s awards.

I’m surprised bloggers haven’t actually invented a new word for blog awards. I guess ‘blawards’ sounds a bit too much like a 16^th century swearword…

How vast is your chopped-down rainforest?

How long is that security barrier?

How tall are your new corporate headquarters?

How big is the EC wine lake?

Just how heavy is John Prescott?

Find out at An area the size of Wales.

Via The Liberal Dissenter.

Exactly how did he think these photos would turn out?

And check out that Mac Classic in the background!

Via Boing Boing.

New improved Stick Cricket.

They’ve just made it more difficult for no good reason.

Via Nick Barlow.

There’s Googlebombing…

…and then there’s this.

Via Backword.

…but are these photos real? Quite spectacular.

Via Norm.

Crazy face transformer.

Train Spotting Simulator.

I want a version set in Princes Street Gardens.

Via Cage of Monkeys.

A selection of good 404 error messages.

Mine is pretty boring. That’s all I have to add really…

Via PooterGeek.

I’ve stopped using those Steal These buttons so obsessively. If only this button maker was around at the time. It is now so much easier to put images on the buttons.

Via New Links.

Not really. But I do have a vague idea of where you are.

You see, I put one of those groovy Hit Maps on the blog a few days ago (near the bottom of the middle column), and the first results are in!

It’s all very interesting. I’m surprised by the diversity of the locations more than anything else…

(Incidentally, I found out about Hit Maps via New Links a few weeks ago.)

Pee your name in the snow - virtually.

Via Cage of Monkeys.