strawmen in the wind
“The ass is back, after almost two decades of pop culture focusing on the bust line, this is significant”: Ignoring the um iconic weight this observer places on this trend, is it even (= ie empirically ) true? I have […]

In which science journalist Simon Singh takes umbrage at the lyrics of Katie Melua’s Nine Million Bicycles and in particular the science contained within.
Me I would be more holistic and say the whole song is rubbidge. And where is her proof t[…]

Article and list of this years Ignoble Prize winners. I always remember this being a slightly churlish mickey take of obscure areas of scientific research. This time they seem to be rather proud of the areas of research. The alarm clock that runs and[…]

In a story that needs follow up from a Man with Chest Hair in Manchester, Glass is being banned from licensed premises in Glasgow. Its a three stage process, ending in pubs, who may be allowed to us shatterproof, toughened glass. But clubs have got t[…]

P&P goes BANG when it starts, posho is moving next door and we are in the ball. Whup, there is Mr D’Arcy all sideburned up and glowery. He glowers too much, and Keira Knightly is too giggly early doors but it doesn’t matter because t[…]

quotidian cliche misinforms us — PWEI and GBOA (not to mention NAD) were JABOF and thus NEVER TRUE GREBO. In the interests of the quest for a higher reality, all is now revealed:
Deep Grebo Level 1: It all makes sense when you think about it&#[…]

What trip to furren would be complete without a comedy food item?[…]

i could look this up or ask but it is more fun to explore it as an EXPERIMENT viz which bacon does WHAT? bacon is sold in all different permutations — back bacon, unsmoked bacon etc — and i realised this week i have never bothered working[…]

The Wallace & Gromit film is so well written and paced (though since they took a day to make 2-3 seconds, you can see why they’d need a joke every couple of days) that I thought “Why don’t they make movies like this any more?&#[…]

I don’t read trad SF often these days, but was interested to notice in Farthest Star, by Fred Pohl & Jack Williamson (from 1975, though spiritually of an earlier age), some differences similar to ones that are much talked about in comic bo[…]