In much the same way that I was convinced there was a missing Hitchcock film with one of Cary Grant or James Mason, which later turned out to be a Heinlein story called 'The unpleasant profession of Jonathan Hoag', I have been quite sure that there was a Beiderbecke story concerning a secret organisation that helped people disappear. Each time I ( Read more... )

I really should know better than to follow Mr Ducker's (patented) random links. Through a combination of (special) circumstances, I discover that The People feature in more than the one Whovian New Adventure nov. Bugger.Comedy moment: I lost my GPS ( Read more... )

I suspect it's just my currently stuffed brain chemistry, but when I see the word 'bubbly' applied to either a carbonated wine product or someone's personality, I tend to cringe and move in the general direction of Away.

I'm sure there are others.

I may be slightly drunk.

(Appropriately enough, Boards of Canada again.)
Several months ago, andrewducker and oletheros pointed me in the direction of thisI am forced to admit that it is very good indeed. Bus stop missing good, in fact. Ok, the Whovian bits are somewhat ho-hum[1], but speaking as a Culture fanboy, the rest is spot on ( Read more... )

(Inspired by well-wrought fulmination elsewhere.)

In-car navigation kit that uses GPS as a locator is still pish.

It'll remain pish until two interconnected problems are solved.

i) The mapping data has to be the OS. There are no other maps but OS maps (modulo Nicholson Streetfinder for those trapped within the M25 forcefield) because they show ( Read more... )

There was a gathering of the clan the other week. Fun, but hard work because I'm used to large family events involving about four people, rather than a full village hall ( Read more... )

JGB on Modernism (via the splendid types at Electrolite). The rest of the Guardian articles about Modernism are worth the read, too.

Women's Spatial Acuity Improved By Videogame. (via bOing^2). Good. For one reason or another, 'Raise' by Bocca Juniors is playing in my head.

Some years ago, I was rather put out to discover that rather than being about an international assassin with a glamorous companion, 'The hitman and her' featured that well-known Deltic collector Pete Waterman playing grim disco at lurching proles ( Read more... )

IM IN UR BASE EATING UR VOLTS.

For fuck's sake.

Bring back Gabrielle Drake in a purple wig, please.