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Normal service resumes posted 21st March 2003

Friday Biscuit:

Out of curiosity
I dug up Logie Baird
And I asked him what petrified forests see<
To make them all so scared.

from Albert Hammond Bootleg on Back In The D.H.S.S.
The website for this year’s Brighton Festival has got some thoughtful bits of information architecture. The festival runs for three weeks in May; every page on the site has a calendar linking through to a day’s events. Each page also contains highlights enticing visitors to read more about chosen events relevent to the page. Additionally, all the events are cross-referenced and categorised with colour coding.
Recently the BBC announced it was losing 100 new media jobs. It seems these unlucky folks were told via a PowerPoint presentation, the precise method by which we were ditched from Citria.
Simon Willison has got some good things going on in a PHP, Python, CSS and XML context.

Bourbon cream: It’s the first Biscuit Friday of the year.
Ginger snap: Oof. Someone was in die Hundehutte last night. A quiet evening in the Earth and Stars, iChatting to Dunstan (still in San Francisco) with Andy and Jeremy, ended up an early morning in the Spiegeltent. And there’s more Biscuit for y’all.
Sensitive scumbag: Fabulous quote from Iggy Pop.
Garibaldi: More Friday banter from the Biscuit: I should have just got a job on the bins. The pay’s better and I’d know some hard blokes. And I wouldn’t have to pretend That I know what rhetorical means.I could have been like Lou Barlow, But I’m more like Ken…
Happy New Year: Welcome all to 2003. Hope you’re all recovering from the excesses of Tuesday night! I’ve been a bit quiet recently, taking a break from all things computery, but normal service will now be resumed (unlike the poor unfortunate West Pier).