Code 46 is a futuristic law which says that due to the massive rise in in vitro births and other shenanigans, we must not have children with people who share our genetic code. Its anti-incest because that half the people on the planet may have simila[…]

Things In The Top 25 Non Fiction Books Which Are Fiction No Matter How Many Copies They Sell
7. Julia Donaldson – The Gruffalo’s Child
12. The Beano Annual*
18. Rowling – Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
21. Derek Acorah &#[…]

Fine and Dandy
The Today programme, yesterday. John Humphries intriduces a story about the new, glossy, relaunched Dandy.
He begins by fulminating that it’s on glossy paper, has new stories, and Desperate Dan has got rid of his gun. Isn’t[…]

Toe curling moments in political television (apologies for inaccurate transcription from memory but this is broadly correct):
Question Time, BBC1, 7 October 2004. Dimbleby declares that only 60 seconds remain of the programme. Nation thanks its lucky[…]

New Guidelines for Kids TV: a little strict, say industry types. The thing about kids watching TV is that generally they will actually turn over or off if they see genuinely disturbing (as opposed to scary or ‘ewwww’) stuff. Also the enti[…]

One of my local pubs is being refurbed. I am rather nervous about it. Whilst not a regular haunt, I rather liked thShaftesbury, its cheap beer, lovely Sunday lunches and the like. What it will become I am not sure, there is genuine gutting going on t[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
20: ELECTION
Martin Skidmore says:
I’m astonished that director Alexander Payne has attracted quite a lot of criticism from some quarters for picking on particular targets and being cruel about them – Kathy Bates’s […]

A List Of Films from 2003
How to write about what I thought were the best forty films of last year. No, scratch that, why am I writing about the forty best films of last year? The simplest answer of course would be that I did it last year and am a co[…]

Graffiti Criticism: it’s pretty common to see scrawls on Tube posters – someone putting “SLAPER” on an advert for Christina, a casual “Bollox” appended to a Dido picture, the face of Robbie Williams acquiring two b[…]

u = win cz ur stranger
1337-h4x0R and tw33n3r (= txt in the uk) and AIMchat going clear as near-mainstream humour
wonkette channels Blah, Blah Black Sheep‘s joke (w.add-ons) on the DC Emergency text alert system: “OMG WMD WTF!”
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