Richard Hammond. Or is that just me?

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A kilo or more of salt is essential when viewing the Top Gear "news", including the latest report that a scientist is calling for UK street lights to be switched off, which I think is based on a Telegraph news item from 27 November.

The report in question, Artificial Light in the Environment, makes no such recommendation. In fact, it says the ( Read more... )

Remember that fanvid of the Hamster to I'm Still Standing? Just stumbled across it again and watched a few seconds and got a little lump in my throat. Even with the shite aspect ratio. QUELLE BIG GIRL'S BLOUSE. I ask you.

ETA: omg! :D

What I should be doing: cleaning up for the annual real estate inspection tomorrow ( Read more... )

Clarkson. You enormous umph. The government doesn't release heatwave alerts for your personal benefit. It's so that hospitals can get ready. The system was put in place after the heatwave of 2003 killed over two thousand Britons. Remember?

On a quest for Top Gear bloopers, I watched some stuff cut out of the News earlier this year. There are lots of silly lols, as you might expect, and then this really nasty little bit where they slag off a woman for being ugly ( Read more... )

Paul Bowles. The Sheltering Sky.
August Derleth (ed). Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Richard Hammond. As You Do.
Tanith Lee. Drinking Sapphire Wine including Don't Bite the Sun.
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty.

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"But my childhood love of the natural world had forearmed me with a ready enthusiasm for when I finally came face to face with the honey badger in the wild. Actually, getting face to face with a honey badger is surprisingly difficult. They are blessed with the unique and, I should imagine, bloody surprising ability, if you've just caught one by the ( Read more... )

Only after all that fiddling about in Photoshop did I discover the atheist bus ad generator.

A seven year old interviews Richard Hammond.

KUDOS IS MINE

Go look at luluxa's Doctor-Master art. Now.

Behold ceefax-the-sane's Shark Attack 3 picspam!

And thanks to cowboyhd, behold Matt Smith in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Do you know, I actually went and looked him up on the ( Read more... )

Zero Punctuation, reviewing Sim City Societies in February this year: "I suppose the clinching flaw in this game that revolves around keeping people happy is that the people provoke empathy in the same way that Jeremy Clarkson provokes animalistic lust."