The Physics Detective Part Seven — Ludmilla, I Am Your Father
Truly, we are not worthy. I thought I had concocted a scandalous resolution to this story, but it turns out that my dirty thoughts have been soundly trumped. Clearly, the likes of […]

why the WEST WING is so brilliant part a squillion
ok the ep wz the part two of the zoe=kidnapped story, which closed the series just broadcast on c4, and all through the early part of this last ep mark s = “ambushed” by “unexpecte[…]

PSBs and Alcazar
This may be old news to the future-shock accelerated world of music blogs (“Hear songs before the artists have written them!”), but looking for news of the next Alcazar album reveals that there’s another PSB collabo[…]

the fine art of the CEASE AND DESIST letter
small websites ARE occasionally targetted by lawyerly types unbothered by the actual real reality of the law, for purposes of intimidation[…]

I was recommended this by Luna of ILX, and when I started reading I feared it was going to be unbearable: right from the start, the very first sentence, the fact that he is trying to write as exactly like Wodehouse as he can is very overt. This is a […]

Bikstok Røgsystem – ‘Cigar’

One of the great things about visiting other countries: lying in bed in the hotel room after midnight (in this instance I was in Stockholm) flicking through the selection of free cable channels on the […]

“In the lands of the North…
… where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale…”
(haha the Top 100 […]

what is it goin to BEEEEE??
my office overlooks a building being newly builded: this is v.interesting over an above the excitement of watching others toil while you loll: today they installed a strange narrow slender balcony out from one of the high[…]

Thanks to Nick for bringing this to our attention. Wang’s course of action in the final paragraph strikes me as foolhardy.[…]

STEAMED SPINACH!!
the atommick brane reminded me of steamed spinach: here is my question about it:
steam it for 3 minute = half the original size steam it for 6 mins = quarter the original size steam it for 9 mins = eighth the original size
so if[…]