Grapes 2.0

Below: The recurrence of the words Sour and Grapes in Twitter over the last seven days. And below that: the recurrence of the same terms ove...

The former Downing Street communications chief Alastair Campbell received an unwelcome literary accolade today. His memoir, which has sold o...

I was just watching a DVD of season four of Six Feet Under, episode five, That's My Dog, in which David picks up this whack-job who kidn...

Bono can come and guest-edit my blog the day I get to guest-sing on his next Top Forty hit. You got that, shades-boy? Not a minute before. D...

Babs Bitchin (who I came to via Paula ) blogged about this artist Ron Mueck, and gave a link , which led me to a half-hour video on his wo...

click image to biggify From the awesome new Howtoons , a how-to site aimed at kids but containing stuff for parents too, like this handy exp...

Two China virtual police to patrol online for porn

Girl, Thirteen has uploaded her first video to YouTube. My little girl is all grown up *snif*.

Some great pictures of the sewers . No really. And an interview with an "urban explorer" who hangs out down there. It's slight...

Presumably for storing your Eton Trifles. I do wonder how successful a company called SMEG can hope to be in Britain. According to the spec...

Walrus penis sold for fortune. Amazingly, you have to click on a tiny thumbnail of a guy's face to get to the complete picture. Only in ...

Tonight they're airing the last episode (ever) of The Sopranos. I'm taping it, and it should be ending in just a few minutes from me...

The Journal of the Street of Walls has published an article explaining the phenomenon of LOLcats. So that's all the fun gone out of tha...

Check this out. A (free) program to snip the tourists out of your holiday snaps artistic photo-essays from far-flung destinations. If only...

I just dropped a piece of somosa under my desk, and I bent over to pick it up off the floor and eat it, and I think I got a dead moth instea...