Bad Science at the Guardian has a crusade against You Are What You Eat’s Dr Gillian McKeith (PhD – ahem), who they point out does not really seem to have a proper PhD at all. Last week they spent much of their time moaning about this lack[…]

My Favourite Olympical Things (So Far)
Pete I rise to your challenge!
– Tiny weightlifters. Big weightlifters are better represented by Worlds Strongest Wo/Man but the tiny ones are ace, how can they lift so much! The Thai lady who won her cate[…]

Maps the way I like it
Every morning I wake up at 8am. I listen to the Today programme for 10 minutes. I so my ablutions and get ready for the day, which takes about 30 minutes. But every day, I still leave the house at 9am. The cause of the 20 minut[…]

(I love the way this seems to be the only regular Olympic coverage on TMFD)
Archery: Okay, there is a subtle cheat to the Olympic Avoidance Log which, if I am to break my personal best time of one hour needs to be okay by the TMFD Olympic Committee b[…]

LE TIGRE
“New Kicks”
I admit, I’ve never really been much of a Kathleen Hanna fan outside of one or two bits and pieces. I’m all for righteous energy and hatred of fools, but that just won’t translate into good music al[…]

1991, refracted — the next in the series of Russian history books I’m reading is David Pryce-Jones’s The War That Never Was, covering the last years of the Soviet Union. The author’s a combative and discursive sort, not quite[…]

USE OTHER HILARIOUS STORIES PLEASE: comedy listing of unpopular player on eBay = new sporting ritual. Reporting of same as spacefilling news story = stop it now. (Related question: what did lazy editors do before eBay?)[…]

Now I’m feeling zombiefied — well, I had a longer blog post here but the computer ate it and I’m sad. But in brief, I come here to praise Alien Sex Fiend not bury them. Everyone so often I have a phase and I’m in one now, pl[…]

PRESENTERATOR
Did you miss it? No? Alright then…
#3: RISHI “I’ll definitely be watching that” PERSAD
Rishi Persad was introduced into the BBC’s horse racing team at some point last year. Ever since, he’s been a som[…]

FT Top 100 Films
45: MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN
If Brian is not the Messiah, just a naughty boy, then this is not so much a film as a collection of rather good quotes strung together in a facsimile of a religious satire. As satire it is stupi[…]