You hang up first. No, you hang up first.

So time for a blog, I suppose. My adoring public demands it, and who am I after all to disappoint the 3 of them. The only question is of course what to write about. I suppose if I was Andrew or James C I'd compose a lengthy and well thought out entry about a serious issue facing the world today, and if I was Tim I'd point out what things of geeky interest were going on around the world and the Internet. If I was Emma it would be poetry and if I was Dave it could be any number of confusing and possibly upsetting and inflammatory things, possibly designed to goad me into an argument with myself about Star Wars. Instead I'm me though, so you'll all have to put up with a humdrum account of recent 'events' in my so-called 'life'. Before we delve into that turgid subject matter from which there is no escape however, which I will save for the next post, it's time for a round up of the hot, intellectually important topics and interesting points raised by people's blog posts of late. So to summarise:

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A) Sarah is pretty.
B) Nic is wonderful.

I believe it was Plato who first put forward the 'Nic is wonderful' hypothesis. It has proved a contentious theory throughout the ages, Kant for example thundering in a particularly memorable dissertation: "What nonsense. Everyone knows Nic is a right bastard", and Descartes opining thoughtfully: "He never returned my calls. Sob!". Following a resurgence of interest in the obscure topic at university level around the world in th 70s however, the theory has become once again popular, and is proving something of a zeitgeist for the fickle 'youth of today' (TM), or one of them anyway.

'Sarah is pretty', on the other hand, is a much more recent political movement that has achieved more tangible levels of unified support. A quick check of the respected political activism site Orkut, for example, reveals a very respectable little heart thingies score of 33, indicating some of the widespread support for the theory. However, most supporters are not technically active within the movement and hardcore activism is restricted to a very few individuals. One, actually.

Despite the limited number of active participants in both spheres, these philosophical and political concepts seem to have permeated the society which surrounds them to a disproportionate degree, and on occasion the continuous proselytising of both movements exasperates otherwise reasonable followers of differing, less individually based ideals to the point where they start casting about for a water pistol. These are only a few jealous malcontents, however, and the world at large has been overjoyed to finally welcome the long-overdue move of both schools of argument to the Internet, an additional medium that provides a chance for those who have not picked up on the gist of things yet (what with having been in a cave on Mars, perhaps) to be reached by these most vital of philosophies.

Hurrah.

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Back soonish with a longer post in a less snarky mode, probably.