22 November 2008 – 11:38 am
Including Zoo keeper drowned in elephant shit: Darwin Awards 2008
20 November 2008 – 10:26 pm
But if they tried to “set fires” and flood the place at the same time I’m not surprised that it didn’t work.
16 November 2008 – 11:12 pm
Religion,’ Marx wrote, ‘is indeed the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself or has already lost himself again … It is the fantastic realisation of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. ‘The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of […]
3 November 2008 – 3:09 pm
Rory rightly dismisses a press release that uses an ‘survey’ and twists the results so as to appear newsworthy. “So, while I’ll admit that I’ve occasionally fallen for this kind of stunt in the past, I’m going to resist it this time. But don’t be surprised if you pick up a paper this week and […]
31 October 2008 – 10:23 am
No, not related to Mike Whitby’s awful meaningless slogan, but the very real sense that — in online parody at least — we’re all pretty similar. At BiNS I got an incoming link from a blog site in Wellington, New Zealand, called “the Wellingtonista“. It seems to be doing similar things to what I do on […]
23 October 2008 – 1:00 pm
It's worth reading what Momus has to say on most subjects, and this includes lots of PG Tips Chimps videos too. [link]
21 October 2008 – 7:01 pm
Stupidly long blog post about what I did when I went to Pisa last week. It's difficult to write about another country without decending into 'mad foriegners' mode. [link]
20 October 2008 – 3:10 pm
Recently spotted in Italy, I was shocked to discover that Duff Beer is real.
14 October 2008 – 12:05 pm
Free downloads of some of Mark’s TV lecture series. The man may only really do one joke (“see this thing of historical or political importance, it’s a bit like when you lose your shoes isn’t it?”), but he does it with panache and is possibly the only person who I find myself never disagreeing with. […]
12 October 2008 – 1:01 pm
Propper Red Dwarf geekery. [link]
