International Pop, with Sarah Clarke, Kat Stevens, Tom Ewing, Magnus Anderson and Elisha Sessions on knobs.

“Ha Ha” (?) mucky foreign pop. The “Game of Seduction” requires you to make a seduction roll. The Spanish for ‘busted’. Threads vs the cosy apocalypse Inc. Stump v Scooter. The rules of dirty chicken. Fall go “Free Range”.

The Physics of Super Mario Galaxy.
I’m loving this game (about half way through I reckon), but if I have a complaint, it is that the visual resolution of where you are in all the magnificent 3D-ness is a little underdetermined by the graphics y[…]

10 Awesome Things About D&D from someone who’s started playing the original game has attracted a lengthy nostalgia-list comment thread. Although I am boggling some at ‘Calzone Golems’[…]

I haven’t listened to it all yet, so I still don’t know what happened in it either. Err someone put in a proper description some time, eh?

Episode 50 in our ongoing mission

Ed Regis’s “Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition” [Amazon] is a wonderful and funny collection of science writing. The tone is set in a great prologue about ‘bezoar stones’, but the focus of the book is on th[…]

Delicious, usually sweet and well photographed foods can be found on this US bakinblog. They earn a link to food science for their Experiments in deliciousness: Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. OH YES[…]

Song 4 Kylie / I’m In Love (With A Girl In A Time Machine) – Fast Ood Rockers
The One – Kylie Minogue
This Is Our Time – Ocelot Mthfckrs
Into the Galaxy – Midnight Juggernauts
Go Dumb – Da Muzicianz
Outta My Head &[…]

BOOGIE. Jimmy Blythe ‘Chicago Stomp’. Taste of Honey ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’. The plight of the wedding and office party DJ. Fat Les ‘Naughty Christmas (Goblin in the Office)’. Tanya’s ‘Scooby Doo’ albums. Milo Twins ‘Truck Driver’s Boogie’. Sam the Sham ‘Wooly Bully’. Boogie and funky, bogarts, bogling and bogies. A halloween list. Slade ‘Pook Hill’. Hot Chocolate ‘Mindless Boogie’. Anna Kaufen (Akufen) ‘Sneak Preview’

Two coffins of the way through The Three Coffins(aka The Hollow Man) the author, John Dickson Carr, breaks into the narrative through the words of his serial detective Dr Gideon Fell. Fell responds to a question:
“Because … we’re in[…]