I got stung! Only the other week I was recalling the era of decoy mp3s. Now listen carefully children – occasionally, back at the turn of the century, the odd illegal download of a new mp3 would be a decoy, or a loop of the intro. Imagine! You wast[…]

In my teens and early twenties I made three sustained attempts to create worlds.
The first two were for AD&D games, the third was for a freeform – i.e. largely ruleless – role-playing campaign. Each of them ran into two basic problems[…]

“Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.”
A quote from BBC online’s own story on tonight’s Panorama which is headed “Wi-fi health fear[…]

The Thing – Beenie Man ft Cecile
Boyz – M.I.A.
Grip Like A Vice – The Go! Team
Miss Popularity – Jordan Pruitt
Play Wid Punks – Anthony B
Heavyweight Champion – Reverend and the Makers
Fett – Nachlader
Living[…]

Well, they probably will as a way to destabilise Hillary Clinton’s campaign first for Democratic Nomination and then President. Because Hillary BELIEVES IN DEMOCRACY SO MUCH she is allowing her supporters to pick her running song. Some people, […]

Hi dere FT writers. If you are on Last FM, you can put your id in your profile here and the ‘recently played widget’ appear on your public profile page (that is, the page got to by clicking on your name at the end of a post).
While you do[…]

I had one of those Americans around for dinner last night. A very pleasant chap all told, as was his good lady wife. In an attempt to pander to the guests I decided upon a menu which would reflect all of the nationalities involved. So the menu was th[…]

I went to the Lady Museum on Monday. Sorry, the V&A. My parents referred to it as the Lady Museum when, as a child, a trip to South Kensington would inevitably split between me and my Dad heading to the Science Museum and Mum and sister to the V[…]

We dine well here in Camelot
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot
In the comments of this piece on This Is England, Emma notes that during a film or a show, if the title of the show is mentioned one should take a drink. Thankfully I had already taken a […]

PETA (no relation) dumps horseshit outside Gordon Ramsey restaurant saying “You missed a bit”. PETA is the People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, note there is no AETP – Animals For The Ethical Treatment Of Humans. If there we[…]