Not that we're insular over here, or anything.

SY (on 'phone, trying to make sense of an e-mail I sent on Friday): "Jay Leno. He's the one who looks like a bad Mob tailor run to fat, right? So who the f*ck is Conan O'Brien?"

Exactly.

Other highlights:

General agreement that if Leno seriously wants people to pronounce his name "Len-oh" he ( Read more... )

Don't go thinking that Guy Ritchie's forthcoming Sherlock Holmes film is Jude Law's first brush with the Great Detective, despite the actor's professed ignorance of the stories.

In 1991, he played the part of Joe Barnes in Granada Television's adaptation of "Shoscombe Old Place", during the Case-Book run of the series:


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Rory Cellan-Jones' Windows 7 walkthrough will be of especial interest to Mac users (because he's one of you):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/10/a_week_with_windows.html

*For over twenty years I was convinced that this was what the ( Read more... )

'Skinny jeans for Gordon Brown? Platform shoes for Nicolas Sarkozy? This advice from Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashionista alter ego, might seem outré for most men, let alone politicians. But the way world leaders dress does matter - this summer, perhaps, more than any other. According to a June poll by market researchers Harris Interactive, ( Read more... )

...on political religious refusing to use Google grounds, but The Inquisitr is reporting that if you type "Worst failure ever" into the search box of your (and I do stress your) favourite search engine, the first returned result is a link to the White House ( Read more... )

Or: "But that's not even a proper word, godammit!"

If you have the energy to scrape the hyperbole off this one, look then to the source (not the BBC, nor Texas, but the truly self-interested 'Net company dishing out the poop in the first place):

"A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the ( Read more... )

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...Breitling watches aren't that much cop.

(I'm more of a Crane & Viceroy sort of chap.)

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Bonus:


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Or why swearing just gets people into trouble: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/obama.oath/index.html

It's not going to go away in a hurry, this one, is it? (And cheers to E for pointing out that a year is a long time in terms of potentially fatal motorway pile-ups, etc. Always look on the bright side of life...te-dum, de-dum, te-dum-te-dum-te-dum. Or however it goes ( Read more... )