First there was The Social Network. Then Grumpy Cat got a movie deal. Now, if meme-based motion pictures are the latest thing, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before Hollywood comes knocking at my door, desperate to turn Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch into a cinematic blockbuster ( Read more... )

Viewers, you catch me at a moment of great performance anxiety. You see, I really ought to do SOMETHING to follow up Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch and hopefully capitalize on its unexpected success before it passes unceremoniously into the wastelands of internet history, but what should it be ( Read more... )

Before I left for work this morning, I posted a photo-set on Tumblr called Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch. Too flimsy to be worth posting on Livejournal, I thought: just the sort of quick visual joke that Tumblr was made for. Nonetheless, I imagined that a few people would be amused. Enough to justify the time it took me to match up the ( Read more... )

An anonymous person at fandomsecrets suggested that Postman Pat would make a great serial killer. Of course, it's dangerous to expose me to such provocative statements, because I am easily driven over the edge and this kind of thing tends to happen:


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From the sack marked "Strange bits of information I stumble over while I'm at work", here's my favourite Wikipedia page of the week: Obsolete units of measureAdmittedly, plenty of folk are still having trouble with the old metric/imperial divide, but I believe that society could shuffle up and make room for a few of these charming linguistic gems, ( Read more... )

Unfortunate-but-hilarious headline of the week, courtesy of the BBC: Hampshire workmen paint white lines around dead badgerIf you click on the link (warning: contains blurry picture of squashed furry roadkill), you can see that the workmen in question basically just stopped painting and started again. Admittedly, the Turner Prize has been won with ( Read more... )

Okay, I admit, the title of the post is perhaps overstating the matter just a teensy smidge. But while you're waiting for me to come up with some new visual creations of my own*, I thought I'd share a spot of art by somebody else, simply because I came across it in a book the other day and it rather amused me:


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Scandal in the animal kingdom today, because it turns out that the latest winner of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award was a fake: the wolf is actually an experienced model. I suppose the game was up when the wolf was spotted falling out of Bungalow 8 with Kate Moss and Pixie Geldof one too many times. These celebs never learn ( Read more... )

I don't know how you're all getting along in the festive prezzie-purchasing game (personally I'm the retail equivalent of Queens Park Rangers), but I saw a man on the tube today who was clearly victorious at Christmas shopping because he had bought one of these:


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While perusing the seasonal TV listings, I've noticed that this year's Yule viewing has a flavour that can only be described as Tennanty and just a little bit Davidish. As well as the two-part finale to his Whovian career, a certain wiry Scottish actor will be popping up as Hamlet, hosting Never Mind the Buzzcocks, appearing on QI and the ( Read more... )