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Joke of the day: a Buddhist monk goes into a burger shop and says: "Make me one with everything." Well I like it.

Tales Of A Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection . Tori Amos, eh? Phew. Slightly mental, records thoroughly marinated in oestrogen, freshly-expr...

Some months ago we were sitting around at work having a conversation about The National Lottery , probably bemoaning our failure to become m...

The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín. This is one of a number of novels by Colm Tóibín set in and around the town of Enniscorthy in County ...

This just in on MSN News: New Zealand fishermen catch Colossal Squid . That link is of the type that will either cease to work or point to ...

This is interesting : plans for the world's first purpose-built " eco-city " at Dongtan at the mouth of the Yangtze river in C...

Copper Blue by Sugar. I never quite "got" Husker Du , despite owning a couple of their albums - I seem to have lost my copy of Ca...

Giant cephalopod article of the day can be found on the BBC website. Fascinating in its own right, as the whole business of how big these b...

I've seen most of the 6 games that have been played so far, and it's been the usual mix of up and down, light and shade, tears and l...

It takes a lot to get me all riled up and hot and bothered, but Bristol's bus transport providers FirstBus have managed it this week. Th...

Where You Been by Dinosaur Jr. Everyone whose formative years included the "grunge" scene of the early 1990's has their own r...

I was holding forth confidently at the weekend about the avian flu outbreak in Norfolk; something along the lines of how Bernard Matthews Lt...

Rated R by Queens Of The Stone Age. Not quite as good as its successors Songs For The Deaf and Lullabies To Paralyze, but still a powerfull...

And the Meaningless Supposedly Motivational Psychobabble Of The Day Award goes to: Rafe Esquith's Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire . Y...

I've uploaded some more photos to the gallery , if you want them. These include: Some photos from when Hazel and I went up to my Mum ...

A couple of brief points of interest: Thanks to Andy's heroic efforts the photo gallery is now back up and running; I've just uploa...

Back To Bologna by Michael Dibdin. This is the tenth book in the series featuring Michael Dibdin's Venetian detective Aurelio Zen. They...

My friends James and Hayley are getting married at the end of February, so as is traditional at these times we took the groom-to-be away las...

It's amazing what you can be reduced to looking up on the internet when you're bored. Out of the window of the office where I work I...

This interesting article appeared on the BBC website a couple of days ago. For those of you who can't be bothered to follow the link, b...