DRINK IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE: go on, it’s an experiment you can do in the pub![…]

I drank far too much in the Horse and Groom last Wednesday, and when I went to bed the room was gently spinning around me. I noticed that it was spinning anticlockwise, and I wondered if I could make it go the other way; for a while I thought I could[…]

HELP I AM A PONCE
Tonights s.h.o.p.p.i.n.g ( in order of scannage).
1. Carton of TROPICANA (no bits) – the time has come where economy juice makes my mouth wince. It is a TRAITOR!
2. Fresh basil
3. Fresh mint (mmmmmmmm-INTAY!)
4. Organic parmia[…]

I don’t know if it is cheating to ask this here, but the memory was prompted by Geeta’s keynote article talking about the deadening vanilla teaching of science in schools. My chemistry teacher once threw me out of a class – he was t[…]

The Observer Sport Monthly ran what I thought was a rather mean-spirited article about Glenn Hoddle which rehearsed all the familiar Hoddle issues we’ve read so much about: distant, arrogant, obsessed with his own legend. And so on.
I’m n[…]

6.15 I hang up.[…]

On NTL, no, I don’t see.
5.53pm. I am on the phone. I’ve been on the phone for 40 minutes. You see, I’ve started on the loooooong road to getting NTL to install loads and loads of telly in my flat. Now I knew that both NTL and Telew[…]

The Map Room: this is the kind of thing that makes people love the Interweb. The Map Room is “a blog about maps” and lives precisely up to the title – a feast of map-related links of every imaginable kind. Three links in a row illus[…]

Thanks to my job I’ve had some heavy-duty exposure to the Manchester United marketing machine recently – a John Simm-voiced video profile of their youth academy focusing specifically on skills development.
It was rich with the kind of d[…]

WALKERS SENSATIONS: I was upbraided for not including Walkers Sensations in my very-brief history of crisps. I had a slight distrust of these crisps: they are unquestionably a premium brand, and in my experience premium brands of entirely non-premium[…]