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If you read the Wikipedia page for Giovanni's Room you'll see that there is a reference to it appearing on a list of "100 bes...

This is some tremendously nerdy fun - you know those signs you get on low bridges to tell you that you, a lorry driver, are about to unzip ...

Here's the annual blog stats roundup, including graphs, if you like that sort of thing. The main headline news here is that this year (...

Same as last time , just a few follow-up thoughts after the last book review :  Firstly, I follow Flags Mashup Bot on Twitter because I hav...

There are a couple of interesting things about the whole YANNY vs. LAUREL sound illusion thing that's been sweeping the internet lately...

We had a week's family holiday in the Lake District last week. As you can imagine if you know me at all, this will have comprised lots o...

A couple of brief follow-up points from the last book review : firstly I should have noted that The French Lieutenant's Woman won a cou...

I'll tell you what really grinds my gears : yeah, that's right, potato waffles. I know they may be waffly versatile and all, and mo...

A couple of brief supplementary bits after the last post : We went to a few pubs in Edinburgh, most notably the excellent Abbotsford on Ros...

Always nice to see a bit of reciprocal linkage , particularly on sites I actually like; it's sort of like a cyberspatial reach-around . ...

Here's a couple of interesting links. Firstly this New York Times article which starts off as a discussion of the Dunning-Kruger effec...

Time for a couple of additions to the blog sidebar - firstly let me commend to you the splendid and multifarious cornucopia of cartoon delig...

Firstly: no reading this until you've ploughed through the tedious ranting in my last post. Promise now? OK. After all that you'll b...

A couple more sidebar additions for you: xkcd for all your geeky humour needs, and Weebl's Stuff for Weebl & Bob's latest adv...

Something of a surprise in the Independent today: an article by Dominic Lawson with which I find myself, near enough, in complete agreeme...

You may remember my pointing out some of the truly alarming frothing arsewittery displayed on the BBC's Have Your Say forums following...

You will of course remember the TravelJohn disposable piss pouch from a few months back. Maybe you've got one attached right now. And ...

More internet genius for you: take Jim Davis ' original Garfield strips, remove (via some sort of Photoshop wizardry, presumably) any tr...

Properly nuts too. In other news: large ursine quadruped defecates in forested area. But only because the Illuminati told it to.

I'm glad it's not just me who finds glory hole spillways and associated reservoir architecture fascinating - there's some more...