Meet our new best friends. khymos.org “a blog/website dedicated to molecular gastronomy” as they say. Poifect. Good place to start: boiling eggses.
The blog is at blog.khymos.org where you can currently find a recipe for “Chocolate […]

At 1UP.com. But basically I’m just linking this cos of the picture they use at the bottom of the article, ripped off here for posterity. I mean! Wii! Owls! Internets meme! What’s not to like?[…]

Ah, our favourite topic, and FreakyTrigger had Long Egg’s a-go-go all through 2006. And then we got a comment about the EggBoiler. And if you go to the site, the impressive computer generated effects seem to have cracked our various opinions to[…]

The Angel Of Death haunts Robert Altman’s last film, A Prairie Home Companion. There is the in film death of one of the artists. There is the actual death of the theatre in which this fictional version of Garrison Keillor’s smug, self-sat[…]

The Warrington Hotel was the first pub I visited after moving to London in the summer of 1994. As such, it skewed my expectations of the city’s hostelries: not only was the bar itself a gloriously over-the-top shrine to art nouveau glass, carve[…]

Browsing for information on the nineties comics boom I came across a fascinating series of articles by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics, one of America’s most famous comics retailers, offering a behind-the-scenes look at some of the financia[…]

The central plot-device of Patrick Suskind’s novel, and therefore Tom Twyker’s film Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the development of a perfume which is so intoxicating it will enslave mankind. There are a number of problems with th[…]

It’s a nice theme for a children’s novel – introducing youngsters to the native wildlife of Britain that they will probably never encounter in person save for a fox rooting through their bins or a messy splat on the motorway hard sh[…]

SET from the pyramid of luxor (doesn’t start with salterello, oddly). Host Eli, guests Mark, Kat and Pete. holloway changes it’s name, phileas fogg, box set go, new math(s), Black steel and response, Robyn Heartbeat, Egyptian Gods, Shouty Japanese punk, Dr Brand and chocolate bars, badgers why are they all grumpy, cod-reggae jeans on.

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