http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/ Plastic People Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:42:40 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/186 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/186 As of PRETTY MUCH NOW, my RSS feed is changing location to http://www.plasticbag.org/index.xml is you want RSS 0.91 and to http://www.plasticbag.org/index.rdf Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:25:17 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/185 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/185 I went to a tanning salon. Obviously I'm ashamed of myself, but rather than fill in my tax return I thought to myself, "You know what I'd like to do? I'd like Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:49:53 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/184 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/184 From What is a Designer by Norman Potter: "In the field of product design, the professional extremes might be said to range from studio pottery and textile Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:14:46 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/183 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/183 I think it would be going over the top to say that the web has been rocked by suggestions that the Bloggies have been gamed by a group of Texan webloggers Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:38:47 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/182 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/182 A select few AIM bon mots about trackback from the last 24 hours or so that demonstrate that I have absolutely bugger-all idea what I'm doing on the internet Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:51:11 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/181 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/181 I've heard it before, and it's not a particularly stunning thing to say, and yet why do I still feel a weird rush of pride and enthusiasm when someone says Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:42:23 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/180 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/180 Much to my delight, there's a picture of plasticbag.org in an article on "Undesign" in this week's copy of Graphics International: Lo-fi Allstars . If you want Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:00:46 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/179 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/179 So here's a conversation that I'd love to have been party to: Douglas Rushkoff spends a couple of hours with Al Gore . And in his post about it, Rushkoff has Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:52:20 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/178 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/178 There's no denying that 8 mile is a perfectly serviceable bit of cinema. And there's no denying that it packs a few punches and that Eminem himself pulls off a Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:15:54 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/177 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/177 According to Mr Webb and Mr Gyford (with whom I work), it is innappropriate web behaviour to have four full lines of bookmarks in your Mozilla toolbar, all Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:14:23 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/176 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/176 I don't believe we ever needed more reasons to love Kurt Vonnegut. But if we did need more reasons, Matt Webb's extended quotation from the Vonnegut book Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:20 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/175 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/175 Well the nominations have been announced for Bloggies 2003 and this year I've not been nominated for either "Best Poof" or "Best Eurotrash". It's always a Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:01:39 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/174 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/174 Thanks to Matthew Davis, George Wright and Tim Duckett for writing in with various e-mail addresses for Dr Kim Howells, the Minister for Culture who so Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:00:59 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/173 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/173 So Robbie Williams supports prostitution and organised crime? Well - according to the culture minister Kim Howells, he does... And why? Because he supports Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:59:32 GMT Tom Coates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/172 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/plasticpeople/message/172 Being a set of links that I don't have either the time or the inclination to write up properly, even though I know no-one will actually click on any of them: