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...The fab news is that various pictures from my escapades in the US are now online on the man in san fran archive website (once again, thanks to Jay & Eddie for all their HTML expertise). Most of you have seen most of the pics - but for those of you who haven't or who can't accept attachments then point your browser in that direction: http://www.diffdrum.demon.co.uk/maninsf/ Be sure to tell your friends (yes, those sad, poor, unfortunate fools who *don't* receive misf ;) and also sign the guestbook... ...You may recall back in February I was banging on about a new (mad) television series that was due to start here in the US. Here's what I said about it at the time: "The other series follows a similar path, this time abandoning a bunch of twenty-somethings on a desert island. Each week viewers will vote one of the inhabitants off of the island. This will go on until there's only one person left - and that person wins some big cash prize. Naturally there are cameras everywhere and the contestants can make their own special, secret broadcasts to the viewers about why they should stay on the island and why some other poor sap should be "deported". The producers are hoping for a Lord of the Flies-meets-The Real World style situation." ...Well, "Survivor" is now one of the top-rated TV shows in the States. Everyone - and I mean *everyone* - is talking about it. It's become the "water cooler" talking point and the broadsheets are waxing lyrical about its significance. In actual fact, viewers don't vote off contestants - the contestants have to do that themselves! The 16 people were organised into two "tribes" of eight. Each team undertakes certain challenges (to win survival boxes of rations, supplies, equipment etc) each day. Every three days, whichever team wins the least challenges has to vote off one of their own team in a secret ballot... ...One tribe is down to six people while the other still has seven (and by the way, the age range is more like 20-55 and their occupations range from retired Navy Seal and doctor to student and dairy farmer). It's really f*cked up the way you see team members working together to complete the challenges yet at the same time making alliances and doing deals behind each others backs to ensure they don't get voted off. They're like rats in the lab. The last remaining person, by the way, wins a cool million bucks...I'm pretty sure they're going to be selling the format overseas (a la "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire") so be prepared for "Survivor UK" soon... ...It's to hear the spirit of anarchy is alive and well in cyberspace
- and particularly at www.evite.com. Evite is a service you can sign
up to for free - with no background checks - and create online invitations
to parties, anniversaires, pet funerals etc. When you're "Evited"
to something, you're directed to a webpage that tells you what the
gig is all about (eg "You've been invited to Kieran's warehouse
rave - there'll be jelly and ice cream served at eight plus singing
and dancing until the wee hours."). You can check to see who
else has been invited and whether they're coming or not. So far so
good... He was born with a gift of laughter |
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