Minging though it might sound to add ouzo to anything (such as a drink), i was pleasantly suprised with the yumminess of a sauce i made with it last night. For a pan-fried fish dish, a fennel sauce is more traditional, but last night, fennel had i no[…]

World Cup mascot firm goes bust
Reports also suggest that consumers are puzzled by the lion’s state of undress – although it wears a number 6 shirt, Goleo does not sport a pair of shorts.[…]

“A white bear with brown patches shot dead in northern Canada is the first grizzly-polar hybrid found in the wild, DNA tests have confirmed.
Canadian wildlife officials say it is the offspring of a male grizzly bear amd a female polar bear.
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How do these words help our understanding of how ‘genre’ works?[…]

A really common trope in sci-fi and comics is where a huge alium/evil computer is befuddled by a random element the heroes have introduced, i.e. the Sentinels are fighting the X-Men, and Wolverine et al. have been nobbled by amazingly planned counter[…]

Some discussion on LiveJournal about the best pop videos and Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” stuck out as ever like a sore thumb. I don’t particularly like the video or the song, though I’ve no probs w/Mr Cash in general, but how c[…]

the reporter just described it as a “country layered in history” — AS OPPOSED TO WHERE?[…]

the world record for full-body immersion (esp.HEAD if applicable) in a vat of full fat soft cheese = six hours — GO DAVE!

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What is a one hit wonder? It can be an artist that never had another chart hit, an artist who never reached top 10 again, or an artist who just is, in the nation’s perception, a one hit wonder. In Channel 4’s ’50 Greatest One Hit Wo[…]

ever since two junior footslog reporters toppled a US president 30 years ago, the american mainstream media has liked to get ahead of the game by giving a beltway scandal a “-gate” suffix, in honour of the watergate, the vast, swanky wash[…]