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

Time for another recipe. I was asked to write this down by a friend who came round for dinner the other night, so I thought - hey! - why not...

You'll have already seen the collection of photos we took on our weekend in Amsterdam. Here's a few randomly assembled thoughts abo...

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

This is really a subset of a larger list entitled something like Songs People Really Don't Listen To Properly And Thus Don't Realise...

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

A longer bit about our weekend trip to Amsterdam will follow when I have time, but for the moment here's a link to some photos.

It's pleasing, and a bit of a relief, to be able to report that sanity appears to have prevailed in the House Of Commons in both the abo...

One of the great joys of early summer in Britain, along with cuckoo-spotting and dying of a hideous allergic reaction after making pea-shoot...

Some things are clearly meant to be - I was half-tempted to share a couple of personal "accidents with blades" stories as part of ...

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

I was at a bit of a loose end this afternoon, and it was a nice day, so I took myself out to the Newport Wetlands nature reserve down at t...

Just to revive another regular feature: recently retired world #1 tennis player and Famous Belgian (there are exactly 259 of them! Who cou...

I've just noticed I haven't done a proper one of these since the end of 2007, so I thought I'd better rectify the situation, pro...

I Lost It by Lucinda Williams over the closing credits to Virgin Memories on BBC2, part of the Bare Facts season. Chosen presumably for ...

Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge. So, we're on this large ocean liner steaming from Southampton to New York in April 1912. It...

Some more photos for you: our long weekend cycling in the Forest Of Dean . The photo captions are fairly self-explanatory, but just a few n...

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

Here's a perfect illustration of the abysmal quality of science journalism, as well as the more general tendency of journalists to cann...

Couple of quick links for you: I haven't done a squid post for quite a while, so here's one for you: the colossal squid caught off ...