Another bloody list of sexy 404 error pages http://bit.ly/8I4D3d that doesn’t include my custom 404 page from 2004 http://bit.ly/8D5oJe

I say ‘favourite’ to make Bruce feel better, but it’s probably true anyway.

Visit My favourite 404 error page

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1. Dog’s breakfast
2. Dog’s dinner
3. Dog’s life
4. Dog days
5. Dog tired
6. Dog-gone
7. Dog’s b@ll@**s
8. Doggy style

Cats

1. Cat’s whiskers

There must be more than that for cats. Help me redress the balance.

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It’s collaborative (meaning you can add to it yourself, if you have a Spotify account). So go on, add some songs to our Halloween playlist and get other people to as well.

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Nikki and Charlie, who facilitate the BARG events, organised a bunch of us to meet at the vegetable market yesterday afternoon (it’s empty – and relatively clean – on Sundays).

Table-tennis on Birmingham's market stalls (Photo by Nikki Pugh)

We bought sets of bats and balls from a pound shop, but quickly discovered that the balls were useless. No matter how hard you hit them they seemed to give up after the first bounce. As Antonio pointed out, “when the ball starts going backwards you know something’s not right”. So we splashed out on some better quality balls, which worked a treat.

There were about nine of us altogether, but we were joined by at least three passers-by who wanted to play.

There are at least 32 tables though: imagine filling them all with games of table-tennis on a Sunday afternoon?

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Actually that’s not quite true: Nicky doesn’t actually have a shop. What she does have is a website, a Flickr account and a load of junk.

It was rather an unsual shop because it didn’t sell anything. You see, everything in that shop window was a thing that somebody had once lost and Nicky had found…

That bit is true. Nicky finds junk lying around the streets of Digbeth and blogs about it.

…And brought home to DiGpuss. Nicky’s cat DiGpuss.

Actually the cat in question is called Flossy, but hey; the point is that Flossy now has a lot of junk. You can see her latest acquisitions here.

I keep meaning to write about this (now spurred into action by spotting that Nicky Getgood has finally blogged about it too) because it’s partly my fault that DiGpuss exists. It was the brainchild of Shona McQuillan many moons ago – although of course Nicky’s been collecting her rubbish for some time – and I promised to turn it into something visual. Five months later I finally came good on that promise.

I say ‘good’; the images don’t display properly in Internet Explorer and the links don’t work in Opera, but everything’s ok in Safari and Firefox. One day we might fix that. It’s all done with HTML and CSS; no scripting except a bit of php to pull the rss feed from Flickr.

But it’s fun. So go on, pay a visit to DiGpuss.

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I promised to plug this, so here goes.

Over the weekend of 15, 16 and 17 May, museums across the country will be running a range of fun events in the evening. There will be ‘tours by candlelight, battleship boogies, after-dark fire-spinning and lots, lots more’.

Information about what’s on near you is available on the Museums at Night website.

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