Pandas: The Great Leap Forward, a documentary my wife taped off Sky Travel, is chock full of marvellous giant panda footage from a big Chinese nature sanctuary. The programme is Chinese-made, or so we guessed from the footage recorded in the 1980s an[…]

German comic which teaches kids how to fight Neo-Nazis, the non-violent way. Such as the following:
In the first edition, Andi and his friends challenge arch-villain Eisenheinrich and his gang, who dress in neo-Nazi clothing, hate foreigners and dist[…]

The Best Painting In Britain.
Looks like a bunch of scribbles that someone spilled a pot of dirty paintwater over to me.[…]

Public Enemy – “Fight The Power”
Steve M says:
Clearly I picked this because I was worried there wouldn’t be enough rockist rap in the list. I still think this is their best and most succinct single, although I know the genera[…]

Yet again an ILx thread seems to be doing what we planned to do here. Namely the “Local myths & Legends – tell us yours” thread from Matt DC which has no end of spooky happenings to keep the acolytes of Charles Fort busy.[…]

Woman slashes Lichtenstein picture “Nudes In Mirror” in a German Art Gallery. Not due its racy comment mind, and as you can see, it is not exactly the most erotic picture in the world. Rather she knifed it because she thought it was a cop[…]

In the fast moving world of children’s toys and games, the humble board game is often seen to be a dying breed. How can the fun provided by slipping, sliding and breaking your nose on a plastic mat in Twister dare to compete with the joys of th[…]

Is that how they used to advertise Mouse Trap. It rings a bell with me anyway. Anyway, a trip to the nephews for his birthday rustled this game up as a present. And it has changed from my youth. Not only have the graphics been slightly more cartoonif[…]

While we wait for the 23 most unexplained things to happen, Ananova can always provide us with tales of superstition. It really is not unexplained how a homing pigeon ended up in Nigeria – anyone can mistake Telford for Nigeria (similar balmy c[…]

What kind of sucker would buy Kronenbourg Premier Cru? What kind of idiot would be taken in by its frosted blue bottle? What kind of snob would fall for the pretension that “Kronie” has a ‘Premier Cru’ anyway? What kind of buf[…]