Hi. I still use LJ, follow my friends and similar, but I've moved my main host to Dreamwidth now, and am crossposting everything to here, but asking people to comment there.

Mat Bowles.

It's still fully interoperative, the OpenID comment functions there are good and improving, and I can follow everything from both sites easily.

Right then, last year, you lot voted that Best Xmas song lyric ever is:

You scumbag, you maggot You cheap lousy faggot

Well, this morning, BBC Radio 1 decided this was offensive to some listeners but then later on in the day saw sense and backed down. I agree with pickwick, it's a damn shame that the BBC manages to tie itself into hoops as often as it does. Naturally, someone disagrees, and bagrec doesn't like the song and suggests alternatives. But he's a freaky morris dancing types so you don't want to listen to him ;-)

Elsewhere, it's the Arsehole of the year grand final over at publicansdecoy's place, and ihavecake already covered the other main stories of the day:

So, Nick Clegg is the new Lib Dem leader and in a monstrous piece of stupidity the Government has lost more of our stuff, but in really important news, RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE ACTUALLY EXIST!

I do have to say I do share some of Jennie's concerns about the potential of Clegg's leadership but I'm nowhere near as cynical about it. He has at least hit the ground running, complete with YouTube appearance filmed on cheapskate handheld already. Although the town meeting idea does sound like it might have some legs.

What, you expected analysis? Don't be silly, I've been reading stuff about it all day, besides, I didn't end up voting, I couldn't make a decision between the two of them, they're both nice blokes. We'll be fine. Right? Someone tell me we'll be fine. Damnit, they need to do better, else the damn country's doomed FFS, that's why I joined them...

Calm. Now I tag this entry. Um, is there a limit to how many you can use? Appears not. Oh, wait, I forgot a link. Be very glad she's going to be a Doctor of paleontology not medical stuff, medical doctors play with gadgets much more scary than microwaves.

• Cory argues that online censorship hurts us all in his Guardian column today


• daniel_davies asks us all to contact our MPs about the Democracy Day for the Iraqi Interpreters and gives contact details and a quick walk through on how to phone them. *cough*some of us have their MPs personal mobile number, but, y'know, for the rest of you^[1]*cough*


• Some very worrying news for he-who-was daweaver of this parish and his annual is it Xmas yet spotting competition. NB tsitsoss_rss is a damn good read anyway, and the entry below that one is also worth a look at, especially his link to
  Liz's post about blogging which I'd had set for a link at some point soon anyway.


• George Takei got himself a rock named after him, making it three Trekker types now officially orbiting the Sun (via)

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[1] Technically he's no longer my MP, but as I'm not settled in Wimbledon really and am moving on, plus I've been campaigning and supporting him since I was a kid, he's the one I consider my MP until such time as I'm settled somewhere formally.

Ye gods, what a silly publicity stunt for a radio show, running a silly online poll in a cheap rip off of some TV show I've not watched. Still, what do we expect from Capital Gold:

The day's match is launched during the Capital Gold Breakfast Shows. You then have 24 hours in which to vote for your favourite song out of the day's choices.

The daily champs will move into the next round until we have the 2006 Xmas Factor Champion. The winner will be announced on Friday December 22.

Thing is? The finalists are some Queen song^[1] and Fairy Tale of New York. Given yesterdays discussion, the results should be conclusive, but it appears that there are some fans of that godawful Queen song. As I look, it's exactly 50/50. So go make a choice. No pressure of course. Vote.

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[1]Queen may have once been Mat's favourite band ever. He currently denies this having discovered a sense of musical taste. However, there are still a number of songs by them that rate as all-time greats, even if they are cheesy pomp rock. The song competing against FONY isn't one of those greats.

[2] Oh yeah, aside. I mentioned I'm using Deepest Sender to make Braindumps for memes and links I want to write about later, yes? Well, um, I currently have 12 posts in the line up. I'm assuming you don't want them all at once?

Right, it's that time of year. Radios, shops etc are all playing a selection of music that's seasonal, and, with honourable exceptions like my former employers, you can't get away from it all.

So, in the spirit of the season, I have selected a selection of lyrics from those Christmas songs I deem to be not awful. Your mission is to choose the best lyric.

Oh, there's also a 'help Mat make a silly decision' question tacked on so I don't have to do another post...
Poll #892686 Random amusement
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

Best Xmas song lyric ever?

Mat has /. mod points. Your response:

Lyrics from here, which also has a WAV sample. In memoriam of a great singer.