The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
I’m not going to review this book. On Amazon, dan2004 says “you certainly get a lot of laughs per pound” and “A reader” says “I kept putting itdown and down and down aga[…]

Swallows and Amazons Talking Books
The people who own the rights to make audio versions of the Arthur Ransome books can’t be bothered, despite the lucrative enough trade that exists selling to car-driving tourists in the Lake District. All the […]

“Mac Nerdery etc” at daringfireball.net
John Gruber – my sort of nerd. Some substantial essays often extolling more sober lines of thought as an antidote to popular badly-thought-through-isms. A prime example being the recent &#8220[…]

Whitstable Oyster Festival
London in the summer + no garden = not a nice place to be, so a trip to Whitstable seemed like a great idea, especially as the annual Oyster Festival was on. On arrival we immediately polished off a pot of cockles (vinegar […]

Digital Spy’s BB Forum is an unpleasant place to spend any time, but this large post on Jason – Grand Architect of BB5 was worth a read, if only because everyone I know is stunned that he managed to get this far. There’s even a chan[…]

Extrusion cooking: technologies and applications
Here you are Dave! Order your copy today of this key reference to the methods of extruded snacks. That is if you want to go into the spiral chip (aka curly fry) business. Edited by a well-known authori[…]

Tickle Talk Update
An essay on editing, with case studies. Possibly the last essay from the third greatest ever BB contestant, but easily the most interesting, and only coincidentally agreeing with my feelings on the matter. Many BB fans manage to ho[…]

The Literary Mind by Mark Turner
A deceptively titled book. It’s about the nature of thought and grammar, and proposes that we invert the way we think about the origin of language, and more specifically the skeleton of concepts underlying langu[…]

Mini iPods “available internationally on July 24”
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Got one of those horrid oversize white iPods? Get a “Retropod” case to protect it. ;-)[…]

Is this the BBC’s most confusing graphic?
It’s not the BBC’s fault, the very concept of doing a scale model like this brings in the confusion. This educational project is a grander version of something that every science teacher do[…]