Look Around You‘s Periodic Table [ed: updated link]
Only feeling a bit miffed, cos I did something like this some years ago myself. When you find yourself bored editing a science textbook, have access to Adobe Illustrator and an EPS of the peri[…]

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
The famous 2-pound-coin/Oa*is-album quote, written in a letter to Mister Robert Hooke by Sir Isaac Newton ‘ but it hasn’t escaped the attention of some historians that th[…]

It’s all very well getting the recent 100 referrals on SIteMeter but unless you stump up the cash, that’s as much as sitemeter will let you see, and IT’S NOT ENOUGH. I crave referral stats, I want to keep the data FOREVER. So as the[…]

APPARATUS
1 bear, 1 tree, 1 trampoline, 1 TV camera and stopwatch
METHOD
We let the bear climb up into the tree and then we put the trampoline under the tree and then my friend Simon shot him with a tranquilizer dart and I filmed it for the telly.
RE[…]

6.15 I hang up.[…]

On NTL, no, I don’t see.
5.53pm. I am on the phone. I’ve been on the phone for 40 minutes. You see, I’ve started on the loooooong road to getting NTL to install loads and loads of telly in my flat. Now I knew that both NTL and Telew[…]

I wish I’d read girl’s anthology comics when I was younger. At school I was a swot and a pouf anyway, so what the hell. As a fella in my 30s I am of course attempting to buy-back my youth. At flea-markets, if I see any of the range of IPC[…]

No Surprises with the return of Dirty Den. The storyliners have been torpidly at work for the last n-1 months* coming up with a plausible reason why someone would be out of the country and never in touch again with his adopted daughter. The storyline[…]

British post-apocalypse television courtesy of Graham Nelson. Having blogged about Survivors I was looking for stuff on The Changes and pondering something about this genre of telly, when I came across this section of Graham’s largely-neglected[…]

I didn’t enjoy Egg’s return in Teachers. A poor episode with the soundtrack compiler asleep in the corner ‘ I think I counted five or six Dandy Warhols tracks. The resonance between Teachers and DWs is intersting ‘ both seem t[…]