active_apathy

But that bit comes at the end of the post, and there's so much to get through before then.

Well, ok. Maybe there isn't.

First, a link: I found this post by

shaysdays to be Rather Interesting. Plus, it gave me a chance to expose more people to Snow, Glass, Apples, which is one of my very favourite Neil Gaiman stories.

Also, since I've been sprinkling title="..." attributes everywhere, I thought it'd be only appropirate to link you to this extension. I use it; you should too. I do, however, take no responsibility if you then search this whole entry for popup tooltip thingies.

And now, for the whole one person in Australia who hasn't heard (and the rest of the world, who probably didn't care anyway), Ian Thorpe has retired from professional swimming. My guess is that he's sick of people comparing his feet to certain parts of Matt Shirvington.

(Point of interest: when swimmers retire, do they get the towel out?)

That was, apparently, the single-most important item for ZOMGevery news service in the country tonight. Second - and by a biiiiig margin - was the fact that bushfires may have set a few small towns alight come morning, oh, and for those who came in late, Ian Thorpe retired from professional swimming.

Rar!

But, there is a segue there: it links up that with bushfires, which brings me to a bank advertisement for insurance.

Oh yes, an ad. It consists of a cafe-style collapsible specials whiteboard boldly declaring "BUSHFIRES HAVE STARTED!". It then, in somewhat smaller print, counsels the appropriately-panicked reader to purchase insurance. Really, the whole thing reads a bit more like "House and contents, eh? And what if something were to... 'appen... to 'em?"

But then, this is a world that sells Johnny Depp calendars. Yes, you read that right: Johnny. Depp. Calendars.

Yes, folks, come one, come all, and mark the passage of time on the man time doesn't pass! Chart your own steady progress toward grey hair, wrinkles, arthritis, ear trumpets and olde worlde confectionerie right here beneath glossy photos of eternal youth! Plus, save trees! You can just change the bits with actual days on them; the photos aren't ever going to change!

I'm certain that one day, there'll be a page-a-day version; 365 photos, each taken a year apart, showing our Mr Depp consistently forgetting to get any older. And then the next year, they can make the 366 page edition. (The reason there isn't one now is that cameras haven't yet been around for 365 years)

There were a couple of other things I had noted down, but they seem far less amusing now. Typically, this would be where I post something that I intend as an offhand remark, which inevitably gets more comments than the rest of the entry. This time, it'll be a general question: I'm considering doing a few more interesting things with HTML and CSS when I post entries; would that be something that actually interests people, or am I just amusing myself with it?