Ad noted when flitting around The Onion (but is a real, actual serious ad). The majority of Budwiser drinkers think that Miller Genuine Draft has more flavour. Ditto Miller Lite has more flavour than Bud Lite. What do these statistics tell us?
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Why No-one Want Make Hulk 2?
 
This op/ed piece from The Onion makes a fair few good points, but the key point is, would you argue with its writer?[…]

The Square Table 3/ Usher – “Burn”
Pop Factor: 442 Controversy Score: 240
The plot of “Burn” is simple. It’s not working, is it? – Damn, it was working. Having ‘been there’, it’s hard not […]

Growing a Language
A comment from a colleague reminded me of this classic paper on programming language design. If you are not interested in programming just take a look at the first 4 or 5 pages and the last page.
Is there a word for making a poin[…]

It rained yesterday. 
 
“St. Swithin’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ’twill rain nae mair”
 
A former teacher introduced me to the […]

Those Big Russian Novels
 
I’ve had both of Tolstoys big novels on my bookshelves for some years. I’ve used them as bookends, doorstops and once threw War & Peace at an ex-girlfriend. The only thing I haven’t done is read t[…]

Slink
The new pop revival – ITS REAL! (via Popjustice)
Music for the impatient (via Wisdom Goof) – reminds me of Marc Gascoigne’s classic “90 Songs In 90 Minutes” tape, though with more Blink 182 and less Zoviet France.
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The fashionable thing to say about The Ladykillers is that the Ealing version isn’t that funny either.  (The either is optional depending on whether you found the Coen’s version funny. I’m leaving the either in.) I think that k[…]

I like detective fiction, but I’ve got to say I am not quite so keen on straight down the line mystery novels. It strikes me that what I like about my detective fiction is finding out about the detective, his/her methods and the lure of a stron[…]

Playlist Ghosts: I have played the four tracks from D-Generation’s first (only?) EP a handful of times. I have heard them far, far more often. There they were again when I scrolled down a folder of MP3s this morning – this is the fourth c[…]