“The scarf awarded for playing is known as a pussy.”: I did not play rugby at school. I played this. (NB I cannot remember 60% of these rules – at some later date I will write up my memories of what it was actually like.)[…]

Whoosh! Erase The World lays into The Rugger with a righteous ire. It’s hard to disagree. (Link via the tremendous It’s All In Your Mind). I saw a bunch of the highlights last night and they seem to consist primarily of a prurient “[…]

Tom’s Top 12: with marriage impending my life has become (surprise!) a bit hectic, so less time to think about or write about pop music. A quick rundown of the sidebar tunes, then:
BUSTED – “Crashed The Wedding”: But of course[…]

The only justification for the existence of ITV2 (apart from the magnificent Trisha Extra) is the way it schedules repeats of Coronation Street. Rather than show the most recent episode they’ll broadcast one three or four days old, so it’[…]

Aliens certainly look like THIS: unfortunately the story doesn’t say i. how these Californian scientists worked this out, or ii. what their damn book is called. (Other questions as usual not answered: when did we start calling them aliens and w[…]

Computer Science: UNPLUGGED! Site which promises method of teaching computer science completely sans lumbering behemoth of desktop equipment and bleary eye horror. I quite like the look of Count the Dots – Binary Numbers and The Poor Cartograph[…]

Leaves on the Line: excuse for slow-running trains which has become a classic tabloid joke at the expense of “bureaucrats” and “bunglers” – this sensible article unpicks the science behind the gags and explains that, yes[…]

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
The famous 2-pound-coin/Oa*is-album quote, written in a letter to Mister Robert Hooke by Sir Isaac Newton ‘ but it hasn’t escaped the attention of some historians that th[…]

Before I get down to the rez, Let me just second Mark’s post below. Spy Ring looked brilliant, played like Ludo on Tamazepan. It is quite possible that I had a later version of the game which used the almost impenetrable code of reading mirror […]

Watching Star Trek: Insurrection on Monday night (it might not have been me, this is somewhat out of character), I was shocked by the adverts. Not by the content; that was standard Linda Barker trying to sell me her range of sofas and flogging electr[…]