Almost there!
It’s surprising who’s been affected by this disaster, really:
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has closed airports and canceled flights in Europe,
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Volcanic eruptions
In the land of the blind …
This is pornography for the blind. Really!
… the one-eyed snake is king:
A pornographic magazine for the blind has been launched – complete with explicit
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How will greens cope?
We're just entering the city limits
About five minutes after the human race stopped burning yak pats for heating and cooking purposes, some bright spark started panicking about how
Continue reading →De wordz iz hard, innit?
Mark was later surprised to find he'd misread the rules
Every so often, something so completely revolutionary, so paradigm-shifting comes along that you really just cannot imagine how society
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Butter wouldn't melt in my mouth…
I’m straying somewhat outside my area of expertise here, but bear with me. Apparently, the genii responsible for all critical thought in this
Continue reading →It’s 8 AM, do you know where your daughter is?
He's not a dolly, he's a very naughty boy!
It’s rare that I see something that makes me positively queasy, but this little snippet certainly managed it:
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Yeah but no but
A Booker Prize-winning novelist celebrated for her ‘ability to inhabit her characters’ has revealed in an interview that she considers 14-year old
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A happy killer, earlier
There were many aspects of the Jamie Bulger killing that I found entirely incomprehensible: from the video footage showing the boys leading Jamie out of
Continue reading →Saul on Sunday.
Much has been said recently about the antics of professional footballers. John Terry and his alleged affair with his team-mate Wayne Bridge’s former girlfriend. Ashley Cole and
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Pay Up Pompey, Pompey Pay Up.Portsmouth FC dodged a bullet in the High Court this week; they have stumbled from crisis to crisis and are now on their fourth owner so
Continue reading →There’s been plenty of smoke, hasn’t there?
'Ello, 'ello, 'ello … what's going on here then?
And so it has finally come to pass: after years of bleating about
Continue reading →And Steve Jobs spake, saying
Who's going to surf the Internet with one of these?
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is from Nokia, or
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There’s no going back, is there?
It's too late!
There are dozens of aphorisms of this nature, most of the entirely unsuitable for this gentle blog, which indicate that once something has happened, it’s pretty
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The natives are restless
I was fairly astonished to read in several newspapers that the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti were “getting angry” about the failure of aid
Continue reading →There’s no true grit in a chaotic standstill
Salt of the earth, apparently!
I’m intrigued by the thought of a chaotic standstill. I would’ve thought that chaos requires movement. There is a troupe called Circus of Chaos, and I
Continue reading →Jingle Tills, Jingle Tills …
Because, of course, Christmas shopping is JUST like this, isn't it?
As someone who is reasonably widely travelled, it never fails to amaze me at how consumerist British society is. I
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The Killer Fish of Caerbannog. Looks harmless, doesn't it?
Watching this wonderful documentary is a salutary lesson to us all: the natural world is filled with beauty and wonder, astonishing ingenuity
Continue reading →Lifting the curtain, just a little
Lifting the curtain … just a little!
Under the circumstances, I suppose it’s nearly mandatory that I start off by saying, “Evening, possums!” I was as disappointed as
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