Good ole whassisname. Libyan President. It changes a bit. Well here is how much it changes, from The Straight Dope. Why did I need to know? I guess because of the Opera which Asian Dub Foundation and the ENO have been kicking around like a football […]

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As soon as Flav appears after 6 seconds of, even for Anthrax, ridiculously fast heavy drumming, you knew something was up. This track takes the idea that Aerosmith and Run DMC (quite literally, in t[…]

One of these people directed Volver. The rest are in it. Can you guess who is who?
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So Manchester United are top of the Premiership eh? Its early doors I know, but it is impressive considering that currently several of their top players are also moonlighting as characters in the latest edition of DC Comics Martian Manhunter.
How to[…]

JUST SAY NO.[…]

‘Strawberry applesauce’ (APPLE SAUCE IS TWO WORDS) was mentioned by Pete in my previous post about the BK Stacker Quad burgz0r, but I refused to believe it. However, further googling confirms that yes – not only does Strawberry F[…]

Four bytes went missing off the end of the listing for “Son of Mandelbrot”. The article appeared in the January 1990 edition of “Your Sinclair” (neé Spectrum) and has only just reached the attention of “AH Trewartha&#82[…]

…except why he’s called Harry when his given name is David, in this Ask The Expert column from last week’s grauniad. The second question in particular will be of interest to our viewers i think.[…]

Things that did not happen in COBRAPLANE II, what we saw in the cinema on Tuesday, which really should have happened.
-The really big Anaconda should have tried to eat the plane.
-The should have made a rope ladder out of dead snakes.
-They should ha[…]

Andy’s Early Comics Archive. It has a section covering the evolution of speech balloons, and has a large number of scans of pre-cursor comic books. He only goes back to papyrus, perhaps limiting himself to non-carved sources, but there’s […]