I don’t like Wednesdays…
…for the FA Cup final. Daft proposal ahoy from the FA. Basically, they have to give players a month off before the 2006 World Cup. The only way they can fit all this football in is, they say, is by having th[…]

MP3, MP4*, iPod…GO!
I was listening to a random old mixed CD this morning and C30, C60, C90, Go came on by Bow Wow Wow. Now I have an amazingly soft spot for this song, with its ice cream carton tub thump and Annabella’s yelping sub strea[…]

The Physics Detective Part Five — All Eyes on Pruszczyncki
Part five already, wow, unbelievable, how time flies, what drama, what action!!! (it’s hard enough trying to sell this story to the science folk I work with, so I’m overdo[…]

The Last Ever Club FT
will be next Thursday, 24th February, at the Chapel Bar in Islington. Guest DJs ‘The Spy’ and Ken C will be joining the regulars to mark the end of an era (well a year, which is a long time in shonky pop nights). We&[…]

My parents can be a touch impatient when it comes to television. Given the full range of Sky Channels which can be cycled through in about the time that it takes for you to forget what was on the first one, I rarely expect to see a whole film all the[…]

Is this:
a)A fantastic photo of an unplanned solar eclipse of the sun
b) A fantastic graphical example of why you should never, ever, ever stare into the sun.
(Huzzah for cameras so cheap that you have no viewfinder and therefore accidentally take sh[…]

GLORIA 2: THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE TANGLED TIDES
Apologies for the delayed results on this, which if your memories stretch back two weeks involved a match-up between The Paragons’ “Tide Is High”, Blondie’s cover, and Atomic Kit[…]

Shock defeat for fun
(Caution: tenuous sporting link.)[…]

My assault on the pop music of literature continues, albeit akin to buying The Strokes album now. Franzen’s The Corrections then; a doorstep sized beach novel made for slightly shingly, uncomfortable beaches. We are in “great American no[…]

Pub science, but actually bar science. Explaining to the ‘rents how the weather works based on two weeks of geography fifteen years ago and a lifetime of half watching the BBC weather forecast (which as Danny recently noted is getting increasin[…]