(Mostly) Star Trek ship recognition chart

Doctor Who video game easter eggs

I like these NASA posters

"Woman forced to remove burkini on Nice beach by armed officers" (Really? Or was this a setup? I mean, who goes to a stony beach, lies down in a burkini without a book or even a towel to lie on? It doesn’t quite stack up to me.)

United Nations ( Read more... )

A useful summary of how many types of people disapprove of Pokemon Go. (Christians, muslims, moral guardians, leftards, gaming purists, conspiracy theorists, nanny-statists, more leftards, SJWs, puritans…)

Remember when the Democratic National Convention used a photo of Russian warships by mistake? No? That's because it got very little coverage over ( Read more... )

Reid Hoffman's first job earned him $127 for contributing to the RuneQuest supplement 'Borderlands' (nothing to do with my shop). Now he's one of the richest people in the world You see? RPGs can totally make you rich!

Were the original big cats on Dartmoor actually from the closed Plymouth Zoo?

More links between Corbyn supporters and anti- ( Read more... )

'Her Story' is the best game* I've played all year ( Read more... )

The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia's 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret

Have we reached peak Waitrose?

Guide to Figuring Out the Age of an Undated World Map

Street Fighter and Philosophy

The unexpected treasure found on an abandoned liner on the North Wales coast

...and more on that story.

How to predict the Referendum result

Man almost goes into ( Read more... )

The latest target of the PC police - Gilbert & Sullivan.

"Controversy as Chester Zoo opens 'Wrexham Scally Enclosure'". (I should point out that Homo Wrexhamius Scalliensis Chavus is pretty much confined to the southern part of Wrexham, not the nice bit where I’m from…)

Why Gandhi is such an asshole in Civilisation.

The Curious Case of the (Medieval) ( Read more... )

One-star reviews of ebooks you like but thought were too expensive. Let's ask an author who's also a trained accountant to explain why that is dumb.

Yet more anti-semitism among the far left.

...and on a not unrelated note...

This is not an aberration - "it is just what the modern Labour Party looks like".

The 'Roots' hoax.

The reigning Miss Universe is ( Read more... )

I absolutely love this series of paintings of mechs attacking early 20th century east european peasants.

The other day an RAF Chinook with a distinctive bright red tail flew right past my window. (We're high on the side of a hill and they often fly low up the river.) Turns out it was a special paint scheme for the 100th anniversary of the squadron. ( Read more... )

Eat breakfast cereal? Lefties think you're scum.

The puzzle book that drove the country to madness. (I bought a copy in a charity shop for £1 the other day. Yes, I know they found the hare.)

Woman ends up in hospital after "confusing builder's foam with her hair mousse".

23 people getting too offended.

There is precisely one commissioned ship in the US ( Read more... )

2020 Champions League Final ( Read more... )