Archives – 2007 – April – 19  

now why would this make anyone suspect match-fixing?
Read post
— 19 Apr 2007 Martin Skidmore 5 comments

The Guardian reports a very amusing scandal in Ghanaian football. If two teams both won on the last day of their season, promotion to the top division would be decided by goal difference. At half-time it was 1-0 to the promotion hopefuls in each game[…]

Image

FT Periodic Table: Element 2: SPACEWAR
Read post
— 19 Apr 2007 Pete Baran 3 comments

What explains the prominence of this odd item in the Freaky Trigger Periodic Table. What is it that makes the idea of Spacewar so essential to what underpins everything Freakytrigger stands for? is it
a) The idea of thrill-power which Tom talks about[…]

Image

FT Top 100 Songs: 61: CARL DOUGLAS – Kung Fu Fighting
Read post
— 19 Apr 2007 Pete Baran 2 comments

There is a rule in the FT Top 100 which means that Tom won’t write about a number one: clearly he is going to write about all of them in Popular. And he is not a million miles away from reaching Carl Douglas’s Kung Fu Fighting: and what&#[…]

Gr8 K8
Read post
— 19 Apr 2007 Tom 2 comments

It is Kate Bush week on Stylus Magazine, with a special edition of their Singles Jukebox (which involves me) – and also check out Marcello Carlin’s lead article, an excellent summary of her career and its significance.[…]

The Theme Tune To Dad’s Army
Read post
— 19 Apr 2007 Tanya Headon 8 comments

“Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler” sings Bud Flanagan at the start of Dad’s Army. I think you’ll find that Herr Hitler was not “kidding” anyone, and was deadly serious about his attempted conquest of Euro[…]

Latest comments on FT

  3. Count me as one of the people oddly affected by issue 300. Although... The thing I most remember about this…

  7. Oh. Oh no. OH DAVE SIM NO. I withdraw everything I wrote about Hebrew. The fact that "bull/cow" and "fruit"…