Sick Transit – Glorious Tuesday
I suppose we really should mention this today – if only to make up for the sight of Brian May on our TVs again. So here’s some history in a link to the Armagh Observatory’s Transit of Venus Exhi[…]

Top Five things in Science – Ever
“The Comedy Research Project aims to prove the hypothesis that science can be funny.”
A little late, as it’s a show tonight at PBS fave* The DANA Centre, but it’s on the 15th and 22nd to[…]

LARGEST PRIME NUMBER DISCOVERED
Oh, BBC website, how you love your splashy headlines. As any fule no (even those of us who lack a concept of infinity) that there is no largest prime number. But what has been found is the largest Mersenne Prime SO FAR[…]

Japanese Story is the wittiest and most original romantic comedy I have seen in an absolute age. Not only does its opposites attract storyline actually work for the first time in years, but coupled with the beautiful background that is the Australian[…]

house makeover progs seem caught between the conformist-aspirational (= how much can i calculatedly add on before selling it), and a my-dear-such-plebs fey aestheticism which is a lot past its sell-by (= when they put oscar in jug)
i haven’t b[…]

Traffic generation stunts
Eminem moon mooning mooned arse trouser[…]

The publog hardkore went on a little trawl of estate pubs off the New Kent Road last Friday, partially to prove our hardness but mainly to prove that you didn’t need to be hard to go to pubs off the New Kent Road. On this final point we were pr[…]

Kellner with tips on finding a pub to watch England play (from The Guardian).
Hard to disagree with any of the points but the sneery / false-cheery tone makes me suspect that Kellner is exactly the sort of fellow I’d leave my hard-won seating […]

parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
bah this tale is all tease and deferred delivery (note however how mountainspeak has shifted from the lofty excelsior sublime of mallory’s time – where climbers were trying to waft themselves abo[…]

Martin Skidmore says:
It seems a bizarre claim after almost 80 years of technical improvements and the fabulous special effects we have now, but this might well still be my favourite SF movie. I guess we haven’t had so many sci-fi flicks direct[…]