I have heard his new single (“Summertime”), four times in the last two weeks. Once in the c ar back from a family renuion, once when swimming, and twice while eating. When I reviewed the album for Stylus a couple of months ago, I liked it[…]

Actual, real live pub science promised this evening at London’s Dana Centre with their Pub Guide to Genetics.
“Find out why DNA can be delightful with genetic blonde Portia Smith, who will be introducing genetics with chromosome cakes and[…]

Rough reception for Ronaldo
Two points of interest:
 i) were the boos last night really pan-national? I was wondering aloud to my wife who the last big international football villain was – she suggested Maradona but I said no. For one thing I […]

In Barcelona, some time before the Brazil team caught the plane home, browsing in FNAC, the HMV of the continent.  Suddenly, this!
 There were loads of them, a pile of – oh, fifty – taking pride of place on the counter, and more dotted[…]

A minor point of terminology: (more…)[…]

If you’re a regular visitor to freakytrigger.co.uk, you’ll certainly have noticed that things look different today. The lovely new design – by Stainless Steve Mannion – is a shiny way of drawing your attention to the changes A[…]

From the time I got into role-playing games, the selling point was well-established: the games allowed players to create stories in which they were the heroes. But what kind of stories? The RPG set-up requires a group of characters (4-6, on average) […]

i. ok so when sistrah becky and i were small we very much enjoyed THIS BOOK

(because who can resist the name P. V. GLOB, plus also the pictures were creepy and awesome: bog people being peat-pickled bodies dug up after two thousand years, in denma[…]