Poker Face, ITV’s new quiz show stripped across last week, looked relatively promising on paper. A head to head general knowledge quiz where, after five questions, the two contestants have to judge if they have done better than their opponents,[…]

KARMAH – “Every Breath You Take Just Be Good To Me” – ‘mash-up’ plus mind-boggling Turbo B style rapping. A mention, not a recommendation.[…]

One of the heartening things about going through old posts – for the mundane purposes of code fiddling – is seeing how after only a week or so most of them have a handful of new-format hits. (more…)[…]

Every UK number one single ever is up for auction.
On multiple formats by the looks of things. Although auctioning off a digital download strikes me as somewhat silly.
Still, you don’t really need to buy a house, do you?[…]

Untitled
by Thomas Pynchon
List Price: $35.00
Price: $22.05
Availability: This title will be released on December 5, 2006.
Hardcover: 992 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (December 5, 2006)
Language: English[…]

via the awesome dense rigour of “political theory daily review” — which i confess i don’t access daily, though i THINK YOU SHOULD, here is an even more awesome BABBAGE ENGINE made of LEGO, in which the maker, andrew carol, als[…]

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The open competition of “how rub does your story have to be to get on BBC News” has a new contender as a top cryptozoologist (just check his credentials!) is despatched to the Gambia to track down a dragon. ‘Everyone who sees it di[…]

Ages ago on the lamented MP3 blog POPNOSE I wrote about how soca’s greatness lay – partly – in how omnivorous it is, subject-wise. Like the calypso it sprang from, anything from arthritis to trade policies makes fine raw material fo[…]

 Pete below suggests that the inventor of Free Running – that smashing idea of running around the rooftops of a city jumping between buildings in a stylish way – was David Balle. What is more he also suggests that Mr Balle has the misfor[…]