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Johann Hari in The Independent with an excellent reminder of some of the actual scary policy nuts and bolts behind the weirdly smooth blem...

Obscure annoyance of the day: snooker. Not snooker in general; obviously I'm as snooker loopy as the next bloke, and I've been enjo...

The always diverting Strange Maps triggered my Ooh Ooh I've Been There alarm this morning with this post featuring a napkin from The ...

Much excellent hilarity to be had in the reactions to the complete non-story about some Friday afternoon e-mail prankery among junior civil...

My excellent and attentive web hosting provider assures me that my photo gallery will be back up and running literally Any Day Now. I'...

Anyone regularly leaving the M5 at junction 16 as I do will know that there is currently a certain amount of seemingly purposeless digging ...

Continuing my New Year's resolution to make it to more music gigs , we went to see Cerys Matthews in concert last week. I was never tha...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Mikael Blomkvist is in a bit of a spot. He's just lost a libel case after publishing ...

Here's a bit of unexpected good news: the British Chiropractic Association have dropped their libel case against Simon Singh . This is...

More election-themed stuff to come soon, probably, but for the moment here's just a quick tip of the hat to the Independent 's John ...

Rats? Pah! You want the worst thing in the world? I got your worst thing in the world right here .

As the traffic at the M4/M5 junction has been so bad the last couple of days I've found myself sitting in a static or nearly static que...

A big high-five to the city of Baltimore for enacting a law that requires centres offering advice and counselling for pregnant women to cle...

Top analytical skills from the talking head they wheeled in on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning to talk about the ramifications...

I've seen this attributed to Democratic senator Tom Harkin , but it seems that it's probably older than that . You can understand t...

When we went over to New York for my birthday I recall standing around in the duty free shop at Heathrow salivating over the huge selection...

I got this e-mail a couple of weeks ago: Subject: Mrs Elizabeth Etters From: alan.armitage@bt.com Sent: 12 January 2010 01:31:38 To: ...

It's hard, shiny, about nine inches long, and I've got it in my hand right now . No (good guess though), it's the DVD of The Com...

There are a number of things which are funny about this series of outtakes and bloopers from American fisherman and TV presenter Bill Dance...

The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter. So there's this guy, Doctor Hoffman. And he has these machines. And wh...