Requiem for a Day Off

Ferris Bueller trailer, cut with _that_ music from Requiem for a Dream:

One thing is really does is show how well directed Ferris Bueller's Day Off is. Lots of lovely shots in there.
(cheers to drainboy for the link)

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-20-2008

• Virtuous circles
  A project with 100% success rate at preventing relapse amongst sex offenders is now expanding across the UK. Well worth a read
  (tags: Child_abuse society)
• Empathy deficit disorder -- do you suffer from it?
  Well, no, you probably don't. But frankly a little more empathy wouldn't hurt any of us.
  (tags: empathy emotions self_help)
• Do you know how much of your porn is extreme? | The Register
  A delegation of people from the CAAN went to police HQ in Birmingham for advice on what material might be covered by the recent extreme porn law. The police were unable to provide much help.
  (tags: porn law society UK)
• How to fix the web with greasemonkey
  Great three minute video. Well worth watching
  (tags: video greasemonkey web)

My interests

Taken from frequency analysis of my del.icio.us links.

Stephen Fry on Dr Who

The week before we moved, the BBC started a new drama, starring William Hartnell. An old man, whose name appeared to be Grandfather or the Doctor, had a police phone box of the kind we saw in the street all the time in those days. It turned out to be a magical and unimaginably wonderful time machine. My brother and I watched this drama in complete amazement. The first ever episode of Doctor Who. I had never been so excited in all my life. A whole week to wait to watch the next instalment. Never have seven days crawled so slowly by, for all that they involved a complicated house move from Buckinghamshire to Norfolk. A week later, in that new house, my brother and I turned on the good old television set in its new sitting room, ready to watch Episode 2. The TV had been damaged in transit and was never to work again. We missed that episode and nothing that has transpired in my life since has ever, or could ever, make up for that terrible, terrible disappointment. There is an empty space inside me that can never be filled. It is amazing neither of us were turned into psychopathic serial killers from that moment.

From this marvellous essay on the BBC, what it's for, and why it should be supported.

A different view of me.

So, I went back for a month - to the 20th of May - and copied/pasted all of the text in my journal that wasn't a link-post, and fed _that_ into Wordle. Because I was wondering what the difference was between my link-interests and what I write about...

Further fun and games with S2

Got it displaying the name of the person who wrote the post in the subject line on my friends list. Which means I can have the icon out of the way on the right, but still know who wrote something.

I can see this whole layout-tweaking thing being _very_ addictive.