1. Don't get the 24 DVD board game, it's shit. Myself, tafftails and Rich played it last night and we gave up playing it (you don't need the board to actually play it and the DVD minigames are glitchy as hell). In addition, Keef only makes a voiceover appearance.

2. The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics.

Stuff wot I hav sen on thee net:

1. Steampunk Transformers (via Qwghlm).

2. Incredible Machines from Japan (with gratuitous Marmite jar) #1 and #2 (YouTube Videos).

3. Is Moldova the new (old) Ireland? (via A Fistful of Euros).

4. Clange!!! (via everywhere).

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Who do we go with on the future of the world's food?

The Economist

OR

Jonathan Porritt (the George Monbiot of the 1980s)?

Needless to say, they both display their expected biases through the omitted linkages/justifications of various bits'n'pieces.