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Couple of quick notes from our trip to Edinburgh last weekend: Firstly and most importantly, photos can be found here . Tourist attractions...

Nuclear physicist, occasional BBC Horizon presenter, future destroyer of the earth and probable Studmuffin Of Science Dr. Brian Cox , and ...

Walter by David Cook. I picked this up for the princely sum of 80p a few years ago in the splendid Amnesty International bookshop on the G...

We did rather a lot of driving at the weekend - Hazel had a wedding album to deliver near Southampton on Saturday morning, we were due up at...

As a quick final send-off to the Aurelio Zen series as reviewed here , here's a map of Italy as traversed by the lugubrious Venetian de...

End Games by Michael Dibdin. This is the eleventh and last of the Aurelio Zen novels; not because it necessarily marks any particular end-p...

People are scum, aren't they? I mean, not you personally, obviously, but people in general. And sure, the wheel, the printed word, the p...

I am simultaneously humbled and slightly smug to be included in the (lengthy) list of supportive blogs rallying round Bad Science after th...

I know you're as fascinated by the minutiae of advertising law and food packaging as I am, so this will be of keen interest to you. No d...

Fly Like An Eagle by the Steve Miller Band (the opening guitar riff anyway) in the recent commendably unhysterical Horizon programme about...

Here's another not-quite-random selection of ten iTunes tunes for your amusement. I say "not quite" because in addition to wai...

Brief follow-up on the Jeni Barnett MMR broadcast legal threats fiasco: a transcript of the broadcast can be found here if you want to wit...

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...

An absolute textbook example of the Streisand effect over at Bad Science at the moment: Ben Goldacre rather rashly posted an MP3 recording ...

Couple of John Martyn clips for you: An astonishingly youthful Martyn performing May You Never on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973. I...

In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. If you've read, as I have, the novel for which Richard Brautigan is most famous, Trout Fishi...

Speaking of maps, as we sort of were , here's a little utility that allows you to plot your favourite running route(s) on a map and sha...

Here's some photos from Saturday's trip to the Brecon Beacons. We did a horseshoe walk from the car park at Pont Cwmyfedwen incorp...

As of today it's a pretty busy week for celebrity deaths: as well as John Updike a couple of other interesting people have hopped the t...

Continuing my occasional series on notable literary deaths: John Updike died yesterday . One of the most celebrated of late 20th century ...