I know I'm hilariously late to the party on this - hey, I've only really discovered I can listen to audiobooks quite recently - but dear lord...

Chris Barrie is so smegging good as a voice actor.

I'm now onto Backwards, which is read by half of Grant Naylor, and while his writing's great (and twisted, ha), by golly he can't read 'em like Rimsy ( Read more... )

Charly! Charly! Look! They're lighty like deep-sea fishies!

How are the bitey fallen! Since when are vampires reduced to angsty objects of lust for teenage girls, asks BBC Magazine?

Some amber with an unusual payload.

Pretty welding sparks.

"Hurrah, we've just accidentally dug into a magma chamber!" Oh, geologists. <3

Fascinating thing here about a follow-up to Milgram.

I thought spending my life ( Read more... )

I can't really force these into an overarching theme or moral.

There is no god. The proof? Bendy buses!

Japanese plant writes blog

Juvenile graffiti

India launches unmanned moon mission, with cute English phrases peppered in the video.

Spineless robotic jellyfish!

eBay to ban sales of ivory goods. EBay said it would still allow the sale of some ( Read more... )

Plans for new Torchwood revealed. I predict moar zomgmalekissing.

Well. Say what you like about the juvenility of it all, at least someone's doing it. Let's hear it for saturating the market! Because I'm jolly sick of gay kisses making headline news as though they're rare and pervy and controversial.

As an asexual, I wince whenever there's an ( Read more... )

Have Germans got a sense of humour? Ja, and it involves trousers?

T-1000s just around the corner, reports Intel

We are literally watching technology move at an ever increasing pace. Literally? Only if you're watching the world land speed record attempt.

Argentina's latest reluctant celebrity is a middle-aged mother named La China, who has ( Read more... )

(Today's news trawl is rather Reeish, as you will see.)

Tour of LA robot show

That Nixie would be great for teaching autistic kids! I understood almost all of her cartoony expressions.

Stowaway cat from Italy found

Missing German cat goes home after a year abroad. Microchipping works, people.

Mummy is LITERALLY gathering dust. It is getting ( Read more... )

This is fascinating! By 2010 there will no longer be a clear majority of white people in the USA.

("Immigrants" contrasted with "white people" = unintentionally hilarious and ever-so-slightly depressing. Anti-'immigrant' Americans = very depressing.)

Flying dog poo, BUT IS IT ARS???

Device 'steals chip-and-pin data'

It seems to require the ( Read more... )

Swarming robots cooperating, or not, on simple tasks. Wonderful.

On board avec le French lesson

Hidden advertising (opinion piece) *bloodsimmer*

Vet bill warning after dog deaths

Abused tethered dog found in lane. *bloodrollingboil*

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Dude! Radio 4 is doing a whole day of programmes from the Cern lab in September. This is gonna be great! I hafta record the whole thing!

Particle physics is something I understand very poorly. Luckily, science fiction has educated me in what to expect. Switch-on will end the world, give us all superpowers and make aliens arrive brandishing ( Read more... )