"We can all put aside our partisan differences for a moment and agree that this Trump-Clinton “Dirty Dancing” duet is the best thing to come out of the debate."

Don't trust "factcheckers". Maybe it’s just my innate cynicism and a background as a professional sceptic that always makes me doubt someone who claims to be “unbiased” when giving you “the ( Read more... )

Three good things that Obama is doing in his last days as President.

What's the opposite of 'Grimdark' fantasy? Noblebright fantasy.

The Thoughts and Prayers App

A reasonable stab at classifying various types of leftists.

Interesting story about the man who was the janitor at the US Air Force Academy in the 1970s.

Jeremy Paxman reveals that University ( Read more... )

You don't need this laptop.

Trying to understand the EU's actions against Apple and the Republic of Ireland.

It's not shocking that professional employers judge applicants for client-facing roles partly on their appearance and their dress. What is shocking is that not only do state schools not teach this stuff, they sometimes don’t like it when ( Read more... )

Balls. Lots of little blue balls.

Do you not have enough ambient sounds in your life?

Have the Brexit predictions come true (yet)?

The most amazing D&D map ever created

Headline of the Month (2)

A very high percentage of male Pashtun Afghans are homosexual paedophiles. (Of course, they don’t consider it to be homosexual, which is forbidden by their ( 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... )

The French civil servant with only 10% of a brain. (I know that sounds like base political satire, but actually it’s a serious scientific article about a bloke in France who is missing 90% of his brain.)

This couple should get an agent and sell the film rights to Richard Curtis.

Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter

One of our local ( Read more... )

Why bad ideas refuse to die.

Whatever happened to William 'The Refrigerator' Perry?

No, the British did not "frantically" google what the E.U. is hours after voting to leave it.

New Robin of Sherwood audio drama with original cast. (We’re working our way through the boxed set in preparation!)

Gordon Murray has died. No, not the bloke who designed the ( Read more... )

Geeks versus Nerds

Wales Euro 2016 Singalong

Every TED talk ever.

Real archers never used fire arrows.

25 Old Comics Without Context that are Beyond Disturbing.

From free trade to agile trade.

Baron Saatchi on not wanting to Leave, but hating Remain.

14 Things Everyone Should Understand About Guns.

More great journalism from Britain's ( 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... )

Was the Tulip Bubble actually a bubble?

In the UK, the stereotypical Subaru driver is probably an ageing boy-racer with an anorak and posters of Colin McRae on his bedroom wall. That doesn't seem to be quite the stereotype in the US...

Now that Jose Mourinho has a new job, he'll need a new house. And apparently he's tempted by this one a few miles ( Read more... )