( Lyrics to ELO's 'Twilight' )

What's the ideal number of friends?

"The average number is about 150" and "They usually consist of an inner circle of five "core" people and an additional layer of 10, he says. That makes 15 people - some will probably be family members - who are your central group and then outside that, there's another 35 in the next circle and another 100 on ( Read more... )

( Cut for DW spoilers, although if you haven't heard this news by now what rock are you living under, is it nice there and can I come live there too please because the world is scary and messy and I don't like it (okay, that was weird!) Anyways, onwards to the spoilers... and the wank! )

I was just going through various news feeds making sure I'd caught everything recent for my site's James feed and I stumbled over this deliciously amusing little thread that isn't right for the news feed but I figured that my fellow James fans might enjoy it anyway...

Who are The Big Bachelors in Hollywood

Thanks to deborahw37 for pointing me at this!

Google celebrating their 10th anniversary have put up a page that lets you search the web how it was in 2001.

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

It's fantastic, although a bit frustrating.

I found the old official JM messageboard and it let's me see the index but none of the posts seem to have been archived! ( Read more... )

"By the way, did you know that, back in 1987, Sarah Palin's friend's previous boyfriend used to shop at the same supermarket as someone who owned a pair of very similar shoes to those of the neighbour of the second cousin of the Ayatollah Khomeiny?"

- Jan, BBC News - Have Your Say - Are the 'gloves off' in US campaign?

I've been active in online fandoms for a frighteningly long time and it's occurred to me that other people seem to be making a good living by fleecing their friends with barely credible scams and sob stories. Thought it was long past time that I gave it a try. :-)

My sob story in bullet points...

• All my sock puppets have been attacked by the - ( Read more... )

You know this Large Hadron Collider that they're gonna fire up tomorrow and kill us all (or rather kill us at some point over the next two weeks when they start using it earnest ( Read more... )

Dear god, how airbrushed is Daniel Radcliffe in this picture!!! He looks like a CGI character!