Nifty

Did everyone else already know about the Livejournal Memetracker? The top forty most frequently linked URLs - and if you're so inclined, it's possible to click through and look at every post mentioning a given URL. Which is, I'll be honest, frequently more than a little disturbing. But a nice idea, all the same.

It's interesting how much of a gap there is between the top few links and the rest. And some of them I remember seeing months ago, like the personality disorder test; others, like the 404 of mass destruction and why nerds are unpopular have just appeared over the past week or so.

Cons To The Left Of Me, Festivals To The Right

For the past four years, Picocon and Caption have been the only cons I've attended. I've wanted to go to others, but just not been organised; and it's not easy to get a group of students to all afford a minimum of UKP150 for a weekend con at the same time.

This year, I'm going to be organised. I want to go to Eastercon, and probably some of the Oxford Literary Festival (let's face it, 'festival' is just the establishment word for 'con'), and possibly End of Days as well (although that one really is expensive). And then there's Interaction, the 2005 Worldcon, for which it would probably be a good idea to book sooner rather than later.

Anyone care to jump in on any of those?