LARGEST PRIME NUMBER DISCOVERED
Oh, BBC website, how you love your splashy headlines. As any fule no (even those of us who lack a concept of infinity) that there is no largest prime number. But what has been found is the largest Mersenne Prime SO FAR[…]

Japanese Story is the wittiest and most original romantic comedy I have seen in an absolute age. Not only does its opposites attract storyline actually work for the first time in years, but coupled with the beautiful background that is the Australian[…]

house makeover progs seem caught between the conformist-aspirational (= how much can i calculatedly add on before selling it), and a my-dear-such-plebs fey aestheticism which is a lot past its sell-by (= when they put oscar in jug)
i haven’t b[…]

Traffic generation stunts
Eminem moon mooning mooned arse trouser[…]

The publog hardkore went on a little trawl of estate pubs off the New Kent Road last Friday, partially to prove our hardness but mainly to prove that you didn’t need to be hard to go to pubs off the New Kent Road. On this final point we were pr[…]

Kellner with tips on finding a pub to watch England play (from The Guardian).
Hard to disagree with any of the points but the sneery / false-cheery tone makes me suspect that Kellner is exactly the sort of fellow I’d leave my hard-won seating […]

parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
bah this tale is all tease and deferred delivery (note however how mountainspeak has shifted from the lofty excelsior sublime of mallory’s time – where climbers were trying to waft themselves abo[…]

Martin Skidmore says:
It seems a bizarre claim after almost 80 years of technical improvements and the fabulous special effects we have now, but this might well still be my favourite SF movie. I guess we haven’t had so many sci-fi flicks direct[…]

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Dave Stelfox interviews the guy who designs those lovely Greensleeves sleeves.
Time to repeat my biennial cry for an actual release (OK ANY release!) of Osymyso’[…]

PopNose17: this would have been the next song I posted to the block-stricken A Million Love Songs. So you can have it instead. As ever, if you know what it is (and more of you will this time), don’t tell. I’m wondering about whether to di[…]