Unleashed, starring Jet Li is set in Glasgow. I don’t just know this because I recognised parts of Glasgow in the background. The characters actually say it. One is studying at the School of Music (though seems vastly under qualified to do so, bein[…]

I was always afraid as a child of coming across a kids book where a lead character would be called Qwerty Uiop. As much as I enjoyed The Phantom Tollbooth I was well aware of where this, and Lewis Carroll’s, mixture of fun and learning would ta[…]

There was a brief moment, when the Booker longlist came out, that I thought what it would be like to read them all. It would be a good challenge. Even more challenging considering ONE OF THEM ISN’T EVEN OUT YET (this drum will continue to be ba[…]

Two things you would never think would go together. Nokia have recently had their 15 second film competition, with a special section for films made on camera phones. But they aren’t the only people at it. In what appears to be a response to the[…]

Its been a while during which various arrangements were made, but finally the basic details of FOOD SCIENCE DAY can be outlined. An idea patched together on the night of Rob Bolton’s leaving party, you could not stop some of our foodie friends […]

Whose power is to absorb (Do You See!). Bah an nine year old could invent a better monster than that! Or at least, that monster. The parasitic relationship that Blue Peter always had with Doctor Who continues apace. In a “design a monster&#8221[…]

Creationism – take that:
EVANGELICAL SCIENTISTS REFUTE GRAVITY WITH NEW “INTELLIGENT FALLING” THEORY

“Closed-minded gravitists cannot find a way to make Einstein’s general relativity match up with the subatomic quantum […]

As extolled by this ILx thread. In many ways it is symptomatic of a cricket thread that the first five posts are on a complete tangent about a doll. At time of writing it had made an impressive ninety, lets hope the thread makes its century. Worth it[…]

Jimmy Cliff – “Many Rivers To Cross”
A conversation I had about Many Rivers To Cross today.
Me: Have you got a copy of Many Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff.
Her: Yes. It’s great.
Me: You couldn’t play it down the phone to[…]

Not really. Crash is probably the middle-brow hit of the summer. Entertaining, interesting, thought-provoking full of medium sized stars. The kind of ensemble piece that makes you feel good afterwards, and since it shares structure with Traffic, Shor[…]