Enough of this velodrome nonsense, check out some proper cycling.[…]

Thanks to all the people who replied to the ‘stats help wanted’ post – I have enough data to work with now, and can get to work on the exciting graphs and charts. Though first indications are that they won’t be all THAT exciti[…]

Harder Better Faster Stronger
WANTED! Songs with a thematic/lyrical/whatever connection to an Olympic sport – a specific sport please not just ‘sports’ or ‘the Olympics’.
Nothing totally obscure thanks.
If you are readin[…]

Beer Barbie

Not the latest clumsy attempt by CAMRA to get women into real ale, but the official (I think) Oktoberfest Barbie doll – story here[…]

Will Smith is on the radio which reminds me of an urgent question: where is the I, Robot song? The Rules Of Entertainment clearly state that all Will Smith blockbusters – except the ‘serious acting’ ones like Ali – must come w[…]

Formal Public Retraction
Back in May on one of NYLPM’s sister blogs I was very sniffy about karaoke videogame Singstar. I would like to take this opportunity, having played Singstar, to say that I was TOTALLY WRONG.
Oddly enough, I was also com[…]

My Apologies In Advance To The People’s Republic Of China
Amusing though it all is, I’m not a big one for call-that-a-sport!! responses to the Olympics. This is probably a legacy of my not thinking any sport was worthwhile until relativel[…]

It’s very bad form to accuse athletes of cheating, I’m sure. In the comments box here your TMFD correspondents do just that. Turns out we were right. It does beg the question of how she ever thought she was going to get away with that kin[…]

Bum Barometer: David Mamet has a go at audience research in the cinema. Even though I have to stifle a cynical cackle at the thought of punters going all sensible and objective when confronted with a questionnaire, I think he has some good points. Th[…]

STATS HELP WANTED!
I recently got a little toy to play with at work – a handy excel tool for analysing data. I want to put it to work on the Square Yable but the data I’ve got from that so far is a bit patchy thus far, so in the meantime […]