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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

it's coming up to one of those occasions where everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing this time last year. one thing I'm slightly grateful for - along with the fact that I and all of my friends and family are still alive and healthy - is the fact that i wasn't doing a weblog this time last year, when so much was going on. i'm not sure my thoughts at the time would have been worth recording, being as they were so similar to everyone else's thoughts at the time. but in the last week i've been rubbernecking like hell, reading up on as much stuff as possible as i can find on the net while wasting a lunch hour at work. in the next few days, i'll be posting up some of the more interesting and outrageous stuff that i've found.

i became completely entranced by this article from the New York Times today, which details the 102 minutes between the first plane strike and the collapse of the second tower, from the perspective of the people trapped on the top floor - none of whom survived (you have to sign in to read this).
fighting to live as the towers died

there are many weblogs that recorded people's initial reactions to the events, from the perspective of television viewers, to those who were there at the time. these are just two, from writers that i regularly read.
for thou art with us
andy's chest

finally, some of the more stupid and surprising urban legends that got emailed round in the first few weeks after the 11th - and whether or not they are true.

- Clean-up workers at the World Trade Center found two metal beams in the shape of a cross
- A properly folded U.S. $20 bill reveals images of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
- Women: Take off your clothes and scare terrorists
- An unburned Bible was found amidst the charred wreckage of the Pentagon
- A mother cat and kittens were found living in the basementof a restaurant beneath the rubble of the WTC

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