less cranky than amused, really

The song Muse wrote for the Olympics is so egregiously bad that you've got to hear it. Or just click on this link, which has not only a clip of the song, but the awful lyrics.

feeding the ego

I like the Queen and her advisers, generally speaking, but seriously: giving Kenneth Branagh a knighthood? Srsly? His ego will be huge.

new format

I hate this new format for blogging! The screen is less intuitive, and I can't put spaces between my paragraphs to make them easier to read without putting in the HTML formatting. This is all the more annoying because I suspect this was done to make the blogs easier and more user-friendly.