Elegant country woefulness.[…]

A friend who was attending london drinker last night pointed me to this new ale. She was as gobsmacked about this as I was. It’s very difficult to think of what else to say really, a lot of my female friends enjoy their ale already, and those[…]

This is something I wanted to talk about on last night’s Lollards but didn’t get around to, to do with lost languages of the UK. ‘Yan Tan Tethera’ were counting rhymes used by shepherds in the North West of England, and South […]

The international festival of pop is AT LAST upon us! Europop 2008 opens with Switzerland vs Czech Republic, both teams stripped for action. Here’s the podcast for you to hear the tracks – you’ll find managerial analysis, comment[…]

Revealing post on Troubled Diva showing the respective most-played-artists on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music, as revealed by last.fm – ‘urban’ station 1Xtra’s stats are in the comments boxes, which focus on a telling observa[…]

Maze War is the grand-daddy of not only first-person shooters, but also networked multi-player games like World of Warcraft. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are mazes in WoW, Second Life etc, as they are the nursey-slopes for 3D environment cr[…]

Alicia in Terra Mirabili
Aliciae Per Speculum Transitus (Quaeque Ibi Invenit)
Cattus Petasatus
Ferdinandus Taurus
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis
Ieremia Piscatore
Maria Poppina
Pinoculus
Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abroga[…]

Lost in Trance-Nation: Mark leads the way with Alix, Alan, Meg and Steve on Knobs.

Of course, the best thing about S4C whilst I was growing up in the north-west was getting to watch Countdown on poorly tuned S4C in the telly in my room, then trotting downstairs to where my parents were watching English Channel 4 in the living room […]

 
Flemish chart record-breaker![…]