Last night I dreamt that I was a werewolf and that my father was the Alpha of our pack, that he got kidnapped and I had to invoke the magic of the pack to rescue him. So far, not very surprising - I've been reading my way through Patricia Briggs' modern urban fantasy series again. But why was my father Nick Clegg?

I did not win NaNoWriMo. Actually ( Read more... )

Okay, no matter what your opinions of Google since the Google+ real name policy fiasco, I highly recommend that you go to your local region's version of the Google search page and click "Play" on the Google Doodle of today. It's amazing ( Read more... )

RIP Sylvia the cat and Knut the polar bear.

Something fluffy I should have posted weeks ago:

Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day. From the Seattle Times. Linked by Topless Robot.

Electron Boy's amazing power felt worldwide.

Ricky Martin is a gay homosexual.

How many years has "everyone" known that already? Ah well, at least he finally admitted it :)

This may interest some of you: Film director Kevin Smith is thrown off US plane for being 'too big for seat'. In a series of Tweets, he laid into Southwest Airlines for their poor customer service. I'm going to copy & paste a lot because he is too verbose for 140 characters!
Dear @SouthwestAir - I know I'm fat, but was Captain Leysath really ( Read more... )

I had to pay some cheques into the bank today, so I went to the bank in the basement of the Bentall Centre and then into WH Smith to get a hot chocolate from the Costa inside (as opposed to going to the one on the top floor, or the one in the market place). While I was waiting for my drink to be made, I looked across at the bookselling part of the ( Read more... )

Those of you who've been online all day will know this already, but for people like me who've just got online: Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide bombing attack todayThe impression I have is that she was no angel, though to what extent she was genuinely guilty of corruption and to what extent the charges were ( Read more... )

Alarming phone call of the day: my mum phoned at 7:43am to tell me that the block of flats she lives in was busy burning down, but I shouldn't worry because everyone had got out ( Read more... )

Another fake internet death. Actually, this one was more of a fake internet coma, but they tend to end in fake internet deaths if the person's lies aren't caught in time ( Read more... )