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Hi. Last of my summaries for a while. Behind-the-scenes plans for summarisers for the next two weeks are sadly lacking in solidity, but at least I got the summary archive (http://husk.org/void/summ/) ready. A week of long running mutating threads, as ever perhaps. Robert Jones started Music Trivia by searching for a Letter to Cleo; Chris Devers found the answer. Easter Bunny moved it on by complaining about the 'whiney' B52s, which crossed threads and spurred a large Steve Mynott post about 80s and 90s pop, something of a theme this week. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036514.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036546.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036839.html John McDonnell was moving the Nonweb thread from minor status to thread of the week by questioning pronunciation, which Robin Houston compounded. Simon Wistow added location (changes thereof) to the mix, and there were lots of attempts to replicate phonetics in ASCII. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036537.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036676.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036713.html alex@lurk.org posted a list of questions, provoking little discussion, but some interesting answers; I was struck by how often OSes were described as prison like (as by Robert Jones), although John McDonnell saw it more as obstacles, and John Melesky found something to love in all of them. The description of code as art went largely unchallenged, which is perhaps a (void) specific response. One of the few points of discussion was Jo Walsh's somewhat dismissive mention of TCL, taken up by Thomas Fini Hansen and Randal L. Schwartz. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036632.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036554.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036550.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010409/036568.html The Mens Rooms thread is best summed up for me by Clive Murray, but it can't be ignored as it spurred huge discussion on fast food (spurred by Victoria McDonnell); comparisons across the Atlantic of pizza chains and kebabs, with Steve Mynott describing the culinary and sociological aspects of the latter. Chris Devers 'gyrating column o' mystery meat' gets a mention too, as I liked the phrase. (That also goes for Alex Robinson's description of, um, a toilet somewhere. And I wasn't going to mention the lav thread. Sigh.) http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036592.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036648.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036775.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036858.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036628.html Going back to music, Ashley Pomeroy mentioned Kraftwerk on the pronunciation thread, and also spurred a thread on speed limits, again with transatlantic differences being explored- Chris Devers mentioned Montana and Simon Wistow provided anecdotes about on-motorway speed tests. Randal talked about odd Oregon legislation. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036815.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036861.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036821.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036914.html In other bits that have caught my eye scanning the archives; more music- Claire Grogan, of Altered Image(s?) was talked about by Dave Cross; New Romantics were dismissed amusingly by Simon Kinahan. (Oops, seem to have missed the whole Blondie/ early rap thread. Ah well.) Ashley parodied the Telegraph, and Alex Robinson ranted at the Spectator. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036734.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036709.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036734.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036681.html Discussion of web stuff popped up; unstealable graphics (as posted by Chris Devers and dismissed by Replicant); Daynal asked about favourites icons (first reply prize goes to duncan) and Alex Robinson grappled with stylesheets. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036738.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036746.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036840.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010416/036846.html Links of the week: from alex@slab.org (according to prophecy), Lee Maguire, Alex Robinson and Robert Jones. http://www.floppyswop.co.uk/ http://www.fusiongames.com/portfolio/pepebio1.html http://www.prelinger.com/ialist.html http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24800-2001Apr16.html |