Generally this world is a pretty good place to be. There's a lot of variety to be had. There's lots to do. There are a lot of great people around to do it with. And there's lots of space to do stuff without anybody around if that's what you want. And there are lots of websites that help you do all of this. This site is not one of them. This is a place where the rubbish ends up.

For every one of humankind's great achievements there seem to be many other occasions when we get it very wrong. You know - the little things that might seem unimportant, but that can really punch above their weight. Like dogmuck! So now there's a place for it to collect and fester: right here at dogmuck.co.uk. The list starts below. So come on, join in - send in your own examples to fresh@dogmuck.co.uk.

02.06.07: London Olympic logo

"It is interactive and absolutely at the heart of what we need to do - engaging the attention of young people through new media and the virtual world they can get transported into.
   "It will be imperative that it is flexible. I think it is way beyond any simple logo.
   "It reaches out to young people in new and creative ways and uses the language that they understand and all the technology that is familiar to us.
   "It is different, exciting and it really defines us as a city, a country and an organisation."

OMFG

05.05.07: Spiderman the Turd

I loved Spiderman. Spiderman II was pretty good as well. But Spiderman III stinks.

It's a real mess. My daughter turned to me halfway through the film and asked me if it was some kind of a joke. I said "No - the joke's on us for paying for this crap". The whole cinema fidgeted as the film crawled to a conclusion.

Shite on a stick, big time. And that's an insult to the stick.

28.04.07: Shit happens

I was knocked off my bike today. Blood and skin everywhere. Thornton Heath. All of these things qualify for this site.

27.04.07: Sat nav

I've always been suspicious of Sat-nav. Honestly, you can't beat a decent map. I was in Scotland with a work colleague who brought along his sat nav to get us from Glasgow to Inverness. Now, there's only one road, so it was hard for the machine to get it wrong.

Still, it surpassed itself later on that day by insisting that the Loch Ness Visitor Centre in Drumnadrochit was in fact Beauly, a town some 15 miles away. It turned out to have a fascination with the Visitor Centre - as we drove past it the next day the next day the bloody machine assured us that we had actually arrived in Fort Augustus. It's poo, writ large.

25.04.07: Airport security

I'm sure everyone has tales to tell but this stood out for me. The travel washbag on the left is not secure, and presumably can be used to highjack/bomb an airplane. The picture on the right shows the same washbag placed in an official cellophane bag. Now it is secure, apparently. I bet you're relieved.

25.04.07: Buy One Don't Get One Free

I was in a supermarket the other day. They had an offer on smoked bacon: buy one get one free, 2 packs of 10 rashers for £3.19. Right next to this they had smoked bacon not on offer: 8 rashers per pack £1.69. To my mind, charging nearly double for one pack to then give a second pack away "free" seems less B.O.G.O.F and more S.C.A.M

24.04.07: This site

I have all sorts of plans for this site. Automatic postings. A poll on the grimness of each post. A "star" grading system for the posts, so you can sort the posts by how grim they are. Maybe a gallery of Top Tumps (I think it's been done though...). Try to create a worldwide community of people who like to rant on about stuff that really pisses them off. Of course it'll never happen. You can't be bothered. I'll forget. This site will eventually turn to white dust. It's dogmuck. But at least it's valid xhtml...