Abigail Brady

( having fun trying to unpick the web of PR myths and suchforth. )

Of course, some people are decrying her as manufactured evil for even having a manager/PR agency, whilst other people are saying "omg! how dare you accuse her of such things." I think, as with most things in life, the real situation is more complicated, a shade of grey. My best guess is the narrative above, but who knows? My real problem with her is that her song is stupid: purposely so, true, but nontheless.

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aha, I found it! they want thirty bloody quid for it though

I realised I had the perfect topic to write about on Uncyclopedia (the parody of Wikipedia).

Ladies, gentlemen, and other beings, I present Stamfordshire!.

If you look at the Wikipedia article on the Reading and Leeds festivals, you will see it has a list of bands. For the ones from 2004 to 1999 I composed these, based on random sources. The lists are rather inconsistent, e.g. for 2001 I list 6 bands, of which the 1st, 3rd and 6th were the actual headliners. For 2004 I list 9 bands, of which the 1st, 4th and 7th bands were the actual headliners.

The Reading Festival program for 2005 has an identical list. With the exact same bands, in the exact same order. The thieves!

back home now. will write long update tomorrow. briefly -

• wearing steel toe-cap boots through metal detectors is a bad idea
• apfelwein (frankfurt/hesse cider) is bitter but palatable. for some reason, it is offered diluted as well as neat. when i drank some at the funfair i was mocked as if they could not believe a foreigner would have neat apfelwein. this would make sense except it tastes quite weak.
• some wikipedians aren't geeks!
• a crazy man wants to start up sign language wikipedias, featuring video footage of people signing articles. this i think will be very interesting to edit!
• tlh.wikipedia.org has a limited life expectancy
• richard stallman is still mad
• i should make openid support for mediawiki
• jimbo can dance.

yawn

Flying to Frankfurt for Wikimania on Thursday, on BA0904. This will entail leaving the house at 6am on Thursday. Erk. Still need to pack/sort out my E111. And get money.

There are apparently going to be terminals there so will be able to update (and indeed to edit) a bit.

because i was the person who started the wikipedia article on the bombings, i am going to be interviewed tomorrow by the US public radio show "The World", apparently also shown on the world service. they are doing a show or piece about just general internet reactions.

the interest is bizarre and a little weird. i was just surprised nobody had kicked it off before me... we didn't make any scoops, although i think at some points we were more up to date than news.bbc.co.uk, and also we had better maps than most places.

part of me is wondering don't they have better things to do? like cover the actual news? but i am obviously being a latent media whore, since i agreed.

Think staying in last night was a good plan - went to bed early and woke up at 11am feeling quite tired anyway. If I'd gone out I would have been bed. Kind of sucks in that it means I won't really be able to be out in Leicester this month at all :(. Next weekend I will be at alexa_robinson's housewarming, and the weekend after that I will be going to the London wikipedia meetup.