Andrew Sullivan reckons that queer studies needs to be reclaimed from the Foucaultians. 
456 Berea Street reviews GTD.
For a nice innovative use of MediaWiki, check out Steal This Wiki.
The Register have an article on the Londonist sweargate incident the other day. It clears it up - it's a Public Order Act offence. Tell you what, copshop, that's B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T!
Kosso, you're a smart guy. You know why this is happening. 
The Guardian on the 2012 Olympics: "Regeneration projects for the 2012 Olympics in London could cost taxpayers an extra £1.5bn, while the tourist industry may actually suffer from the impact of the games, it was claimed today." That annoys me almost as much as these horrible seat covers and obnoxiously designed trains and buses. Someone's got the right idea.
Tomorrow's Geek Dinner is five pounds. Cool.
I haven't really written anything about RB, so I'll leave it to Halley Suitt: "Of course the reality is, Rocketboom has left Amanda which means Rocketboom is so OVER and Amanda can do any number of wonderful things." (My italics - Amanda Congdon teams up with Cory Doctorow and friends and produces BoingBoingBoom? Quick, someone with a fashionable blog, write about it and tell Nick Douglas - it's a meme-in-waiting!)
Some things don't change do they? Dancing as sin was the 1982 vibe, then it was alcohol, then homosexuality, then marijuana and black people. Moral prudery is reinvented for every generation.
My copy of Firefox doesn't believe in copy and paste for some reason.
I listened to Cory Doctorow's story Visit the Sins today. It's really a great tale. Doctorow's stories are superb - they are sci-fi stories for the sort of people who wouldn't be seen dead in the sci-fi section of $chainBookstore. You can get Visit the Sins in two parts - part one and part two. Make sure you subscribe to the RSS feed of Cory's craphound podcast
Lifehacker has two posts on meetings. I used to do them when working for the non-profit organisation which I finished with this year. They would always overrun, but it was cool - because it was non-profit and I was elected and unpaid, I didn't have to take any BS from people. Meetings always last longer than planned so find ways out of them. Or better yet, get yourself a job where you just use email. Living 3,000 miles away generally helps you avoid meetings.
Don't want to pray? Prepare to die. Just another cultural community, right?
iTunes doesn't have OPML import. Annoying or what? I'm having to manually subscribe to all my podcasts again (moving back to Windows while Apple take my Mac back for treatment).
Commentful 
I just signed up for Commentful and it's crap and pointless. It's just like co.mments.com, only you are limited to thirty items and you don't get an RSS feed to subscribe to (even a nutty one like the co.mments feed). Don't bother with it.
"No RSS" is not a selling point. It's a nuisance, it's another stream of data that I can't aggregate. Co.mments.com wins - it does everything that needs to be done with very few problems.
The Commentful marketing model seems to be: "we've made a product that's not as good as our competitor. Use it. Hey, it worked for MySpace!" That doesn't rub for me, you crazy cats.
We need a London BloggerCon
I'm just listening to the podcast from BloggerCon III.
We absolutely have to have the next BloggerCon in London. I say 'we' because there are so many of us here and not too many of us can afford to go to San Francisco or Boston for conferences.
