Arsenal win the League, at White Hart Lane!

Annoyingly, I managed to miss the match in its entirety, as I was on my way back from Italy, where I was attending Francis & Ester’s wedding (which was absolutely fantastic), and the trip has worn me out so I’m unable to properly celebrate. But still, woohoo!

Morrissey is detained at LAX Airport on suspicion of being a terrorist.

Least shocking news of the day - gypsy-killer Tony Martin supports the BNP.

Excellent Neal Stephenson interview in Salon (need to watch ads before it, but it is good).

Nooooobody expects the Spammer’s Imposition!

Richard Desmond is such a lovely human being (not).

Is it me, or does John Negroponte look a bit like Michael Howard’s older, more menacing brother?

Negroponte, incidentally, is the current US ambassador to the UN and their designated ambassador to the new Iraq. He has a rather dodgy history of supporting the Contras’ insurgency against the democratic government in Nicaragua when he was US ambassador to Honduras. The link is via Boing Boing - Atrios points out that Negroponte’s picture on the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority site has a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica in the background, although the CPA have trimmed out most of it (compare it with the original). Anyway, the juxtaposition of one of the US’s leading hawks and the greatest ever anti-war work of art together is certainly a sobering contrast.

That Page 23, Sentence 5 meme that banged about a few days ago - someone’s done an memetic-epidemiologic (epimemiologic?) study into its origins (it was on LiveJournal), unsurprisingly. The best bit at the end, where he compares it with a similar “Page 18, Sentence 4″ meme and says:

I can say that an infection of p18s4 seems to confer in most cases an immunity to p23s5. (really too early to get a decent control on whether the reverse is true)

Whoah…that is weird. Been watching Ron Atkinson on “Room 101″ on the TV now, where he was quite charming and nice, then I come back to my computer and find that he’s resigned from ITV for making racist remarks - the Beeb don’t print them but the Telegraph give the gist of it. I’m quite shocked, especially as Atkinson worked with a lot of black players in his time.

Now what I want to know is what Clive Tyldesley, his co-commentator said back to him. Did he admonish Atkinson for his remarks, or did he let it pass by (with a gratuitous mention of “that night in Barcelona” to boot)?

Have a queue of other things to blog about, but have spent past few days tweaking things, adding a FOAF file and putting in a Creative Commons licence. ‘cos I’m that geeky. More blogstuff will follow later.

The new Thunderbird logo is gorgeous. (via Oblomovka)

Best football photograph, ever - such a shame Maradona has now ended up like this.

Did anyone else see that BBC2 at 40 programme last night? I got slightly nostalgic at the likes of “Red Dwarf” and “This Life”, in fact I felt disturbed at remembering that the latter planted had ideas of becoming an ambitious lawyer in my confused teenage head . Then Anne Robinson came on with her new facelift and I was even more disturbed - she now looks she’s had her skin replaced with latex. Maybe it wasn’t her, but some sort of animatronic, Spitting Image-style puppet of her instead?

London Booted is a bootleg project making remixes of The Clash’s seminal London Calling. Downloads are free, though charitable donations are encouraged. To be honest though, it’s not very good. The “Guns of Brixton” remix is the best of a poor lot - though at least it’s better than the dross Cypress Hill put out a month or two ago.

Batman and Robin are making Reading a safer place - does this mean the Tunbridge Wells Monkey Man has gone memetic?