Why I Am A Sucker
Our canteen has started stocking Hershey bars. This is presumably because lots of Americans work here. Also lots of dupes like me. Hershey bars are twice as expensive as the good honest Cadbury’s chocolate bars beloved of the […]

There are posters all over London for an upcoming double bill of White Collar Boxing. It has nicely been posited as an East End vs West End rumble. The West End event takes place in Mayfair and is billed as “The Black Tie Brawl”, whilst t[…]

MAUL MY MEMORIES II
If I was the sort of person who posted to ILM here is a thread I would post: “Things you knew would be ‘cult bands/albums/records’ the moment you heard them”. The clumsy phrasing of that suggests that I hav[…]

There is something really satisfying about synchronicity when cooking. It was the one thing that my Mum could usually pull off, the roast beef cooked, carved and served with veg and roast potatoes all at the same time (I know know the veg was on far […]

A guy spends months on ILX being forced to talk about boring stuff like music and sex without any respite*. Then, out of all that gloom*, emerges not one, but TWO science threads in the same day**.
Qaballah — Classic or Dud
Parallels Between[…]

HERE
radio free narnia just got googled for “egypt mummies stolen by pirates”
(note to self: no.7 = nowhere, bub)[…]

Any science story that has a photo of Avril Lavigne with the subtitle “Some viruses masquerade as images of pop stars” cannot be all bad. As it is the BBC (yes, they own us today) is telling yet another gleeful story about how Windows XP […]

FT Top 100 Films
29: CASABLANCA
First, the film would not work if it was called White House. Obv.
Second, for bald-faced propagandist politics, you cannot get better than Casablanca. The subtext is “them crap Europeans always need us Yanks to s[…]

Phospholipase is new tag for graffiti artist
Loved this story..although obviously not condoning expression of art/science through the forum of spraying public property.[…]

Have You Heard The Flowers Talking?
Huzzah, welcome to Japanese invention corner. A vase that turns your flowers into stereo* speakers. It does seem that it means you speakers have a short shelf life, as long as your cut flowers, and one suspects thi[…]