Help wanted – attention comments box massive. I’m compering a quiz on Wednesday night at work. The theme is ‘shopping’. I’m putting together a CD-R of shopping- and spending-related tunage to play in between rounds while[…]

Publog Picture Quiz
What is this?

a) A prawn?
b) A Locust?
c) The hairest pork scratching in the world ever, as discovered in a packet of these bought from The Sekforde Arms on Friday night.
Apologies for the poor focus; the light was very poor inde[…]

Pop Factor: 709 Controversy Factor: 255
Trying to be Madonna is a noble and not uncommon aim for our pop stars. Britney tries, Christina tries – you could probably make a case for Robbie trying, and let’s not even consider the efforts o[…]

It’s probably not number one, it’s…
So the axe sort of falls on TOTP, shifting it sideways and down a bit to Sunday eventide on BBC2, and doing a bodge-job merging of it with Top Of The Pops 2 which got axed itself a few months ago […]

THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
“apple: generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts““botulism: derived via german from Latin botulus, sausage” “cake: a flat round loaf of bread” &#[…]

i. shepherd’s/cottage pieii. cheese flan/pizzaiii. scotch eggiv. boiled egg

actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a s[…]

A handy, if dubious, piece of advice I once received (slightly too late to be useful, alas) was this: when encountering a subject for the first time, have no shame about the triviality of the source. Brief, simple sources are less likely to be opinio[…]

HOBBIT WARS
“One of Indonesia’s leading palaeontologists, Professor Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta, has grabbed the hobbit remains and locked them away in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them.”
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Sometimes completely unexpected connections leap out and smack you in the face. Not too long back I wrote a little on Proven By Science about certain kinds of brain damage that cause aphasias related to ways of seeing. Last night I read the trade pap[…]

An experimental graphic novel based on blogs?

That sounds thrilling! And its automatcially generated from harvested Blogger text, creating the art on the fly from themed computer graphics – geek heaven!
But the execution turns out to be a jum[…]