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09 July 2008: There's some high quality crankery over at serpo....
09 July 2008: After 14 years of being without it, a highly infe...
16 May 2008: Perhaps some more training needed: Woman led into...
16 May 2008: National Geographic has an extraordinary gallery ...
18 April 2008: For your web browsing entertainment I've written ...
18 April 2008: YouTube cat goodness: An Engineer's Guide to Cats...
17 April 2008: Oh my god, William Shatner nearly died by crashin...
13 April 2008: Oh dear, homeopaths have been caught suggesting i...
07 March 2008: A long-running attempt to launch a blasphemy pros...
31 Jan 2008: worldslargestthings.com has a collection of links...
31 Jan 2008: As a follow-up to the previous item it's now near...
25 Jan 2008: Over in a Quackometer discussion thread back in D...
25 Jan 2008: In case you've been wondering what happens if you...
25 Jan 2008: In a follow up to Wednesday's item, the pages whi...
23 Jan 2008: The little black duck who runs Quackometer is aga...
23 Jan 2008: Impressive oddness via an e-mail list I'm subscri...
21 Jan 2008: A reader (I have a reader!) wrote to point out th...
22 Jan 2008: Last week's thankfully harmless plane crash at He...
22 Jan 2008: Laugh, it's funny - an astrological publication i...
20 Jan 2008: 2008 is going to be a big year for potatoes and p...
07 Jan 2008: Economic news: The average UK person will this ye...
07 Jan 2008: Laugh - it's funny, despite being wrong and bad: ...
20 Dec 2007: This is good for a giggle - there's a minor flap ...
20 Dec 2007: Another probable distant ancestor of the whales h...
20 Dec 2007: Daily Mail in moral outrage shocker - children ar...
20 Dec 2007: 'tis once again the time of year for cats to atta...
14 Dec 2007: In a massively grim case of deluded magical think...
10 Dec 2007: You know all that fuss about how the MMR vaccine ...
28 Nov 2007: Not a moment too soon, the Guardian offers guidan...
23 Nov 2007: People have been plucked to safety from Antarctic...
15 Nov 2007: RideAccidents.com is "the world's single most com...
13 Nov 2007: A pair of cartoonists in Spain have been found gu...
29 Oct 2007: The television news last night seemed to have gon...
26 Oct 2007: Time flies when you're having fun - I hadn't real...
11 Oct 2007: The excellent Quackometer has been forced to remo...
11 Oct 2007: The Daily Mail's having a bit of a moral panic ab...
04 Oct 2007: The Museum Of Bad Art does have some impressively...
04 Oct 2007: Fifty years ago today, the Russians shot a beepin...
30 Sept 2007: Damn it, there's a global helium shortage. Now I'...
27 Sept 2007: Headline of the week: "Orangutan rips off tourist...
27 Sept 2007: Being a big fan of quick technical fixes for chro...
26 Sept 2007: The Archbishop of Maputo's spouting harmful consp...
20 Sept 2007: "Welcome to Airline Timetable Images, a site devo...
20 Sept 2007: People send me facebook invitations, which is ver...
20 Sept 2007: A reminder of a time when air travel didn't invol...
02 Sept 2007: Another classic enters the Ghastly Hollywood Rema...
02 Sept 2007: Exorcism news. Man sets fire to his own settee to...
02 Sept 2007: Apologies for recent lack of posts, which is beca...
10 Aug 2007: There's so much about this story that's great. Fi...
08 Aug 2007: A man's been caught after hiding a monkey under h...
29 July 2007: Dragonfly in the garden this afternoon: ...
29 July 2007: Assorted "picture of the day" sites: Astronomy Pi...
24 July 2007: I thought Prince Charles was a bit odd with his b...
23 July 2007: The flooding is Gordon Brown's great test, appare...
20 July 2007: I stand in awe of the tinkering folks at Evil Mad...
20 July 2007: How amazing is this - a card game all about paras...
19 July 2007: When I read the news of geologists finding eviden...
09 July 2007: Right, I'm off to Wales for a week of fresh air, ...
08 July 2007: Various bits of biology which caught my eye: I'd ...
02 July 2007: Time to catch up on some news stuff. Even I, who ...
02 July 2007: For no particular reason, some pictures of snails...
28 June 2007: It seems pretty much anything in your life that's...
23 June 2007: From the October 1932 edition of 'Modern Mechanix...
19 June 2007: Maybe it means I'm a bit geeky, but this checklis...
16 June 2007: Thank goodness that the Crystal & Healing Federat...
16 June 2007: Ben Goldacre, over at Bad Science, has found a re...
09 June 2007: Dreadful things happen in people's heads when the...
30 May 2007: A strong contender for the Health-Related Headlin...
29 May 2007: The old archives of the Old Bailey are online and...
29 May 2007: I've just got back from some time away visiting o...
14 May 2007: As Scientology's crept onto the page today, I mig...
14 May 2007: Stereotyping blamed for man's problems: One of th...
14 May 2007: Panorama about Scientology, on BBC1 at 8:30 tonig...
13 May 2007: Believe it or not, some people take David Icke co...
10 May 2007: I don't know quite how they manage it, but every ...
04 May 2007: After a few hours of tinkering with the rather ex...
26 Apr 2007: After the Department of Health publishes junior d...
24 Apr 2007: Criminal mastermind comes unstuck: A 52-year-old ...
14 Apr 2007: I've just been to the park to see if there are an...
02 Apr 2007: Photos taken yesterday with my shiny new camera (...
20 Mar 2007: When the video-hunger which made YouTube meets re...
20 Mar 2007: Passport news: Thousands of people, including two...
19 Mar 2007: I think I've mentioned the DIY "thought screen he...
19 Mar 2007: Ł9.35 billion for the Olympic Games, including a ...
08 Mar 2007: I got an e-mail today from a man in South Africa ...
07 Mar 2007: The Health Physics Museum has a fine collection o...
07 Mar 2007: In the name of entertainment a bunch of assorted ...
07 Mar 2007: This promises to be an unintentional comedy goldm...
06 Mar 2007: Don't worry, I'm not dead - just busier than norm...
22 Feb 2007: The news that Chris Eubank's been arrested for dr...
22 Feb 2007: Good heavens - chimps have worked out how to use ...
22 Feb 2007: The Wikipedia Picture of the Day archive has some...
12 Feb 2007: The official David Icke discussion board is, as y...
12 Feb 2007: Scott has a post about NHS-funded quackery which ...
11 Feb 2007: Remember that astronaut who was arrested after ki...
11 Feb 2007: Laugh, it's funny: Psychic Museum axed due to lac...
06 Feb 2007: Hold the front page: I wholeheartedly agree with ...
05 Feb 2007: You know that bird flu outbreak in Suffolk? Well ...
04 Feb 2007: Via EoR, I see there's an International Alchemy C...
30 Jan 2007: As a 2nd installment in what I hope will become a...
30 Jan 2007: That's strange - he certainly doesn't look like a...
28 Jan 2007: When a controversial Turkish-Armenian journalist ...
28 Jan 2007: As part of their march to assimilate all knowledg...
28 Jan 2007: Seen recently on DVD: the toe-curlingly bad Willi...
22 Jan 2007: The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, claims to ...
22 Jan 2007: Perhaps I'm unusually cold-hearted, but when some...
13 Jan 2007: I didn't think much about the government's plans ...
13 Jan 2007: In some kind of ground-breaking televised experim...
09 Jan 2007: Wonderfully delusional article explaining how clu...
09 Jan 2007: Medical experts warn that selling your kidneys ov...
06 Jan 2007: The government is attacking airlines for not doin...
29 Dec 2006: I wonder whether the bloke with the Harrier cockp...
28 Dec 2006: Well that's not something you see parked on many ...
18 Dec 2006: It had to happen: someone's saying that the Ipswi...
15 Dec 2006: Note to criminals: avoid being investigated for f...
15 Dec 2006: Amazingly, it turns out that a car crashing at sp...
15 Dec 2006: This seems like a good idea, but I wonder whether...
10 Dec 2006: There's a campaign afoot to pardon the last woman...
05 Dec 2006: News snippets: Beware the Hazardous Mince Pies of...
28 Nov 2006: His plan seemed foolproof but somehow "His employ...
24 Nov 2006: DefenseTech has embarked on The Deadlies - their ...
23 Nov 2006: Oh, this "poisoned spy" thing is just getting sil...
23 Nov 2006: Hmmm, it looks like some of my pages have been va...
23 Nov 2006: I notice MPs are mobilising to tackle the big iss...
23 Nov 2006: When I heard the radio news this morning saying t...
13 Nov 2006: Huge William Shatner news: William Shatner says t...
12 Nov 2006: Some videos of, by, and pertaining to loonies: Hi...
08 Nov 2006: November the 1st: Ken Livingstone is on a mission...
06 Nov 2006: The PM's pushing ID cards hard, arguing that amon...
31 Oct 2006: George Monbiot reveals how to save the planet in ...
27 Oct 2006: After denying the "machine-gunning the prisoners"...
27 Oct 2006: To look at these guys, you'd just never guess the...
24 Oct 2006: Those North Korean medical scientists (previously...
23 Oct 2006: My folks came down at the weekend and we all troo...
23 Oct 2006: I'm quite proud of this photo of a spider hanging...
17 Oct 2006: How incredibly odd: David Blunkett told the head ...
17 Oct 2006: "Are We Ruled By Interdimensional Reptilian Alien...
13 Oct 2006: A verdict of unlawful killing has been delivered ...
13 Oct 2006: I love those vaguely scientific-sounding stories ...
11 Oct 2006: Mystery goo causes alert: A "flabby red, orange a...
11 Oct 2006: I should have mentioned the North Korean nuclear ...
09 Oct 2006: Home Office reveals ID card cost estimate: The UK...
09 Oct 2006: Lions in Scotland have a new toy to play with, to...
08 Oct 2006: I knew there are people who claim that technologi...
08 Oct 2006: Still on the subject of museums, if I ever visit ...
08 Oct 2006: If visiting Sacremento in California, be sure to ...
06 Oct 2006: While Harry Potter still tops the list of books t...
04 Oct 2006: It's ages since I've looked at the North Korean N...
03 Oct 2006: You and I might have thought that appeasement of ...
03 Oct 2006: The book "Ancient Gods and Their Mysteries: Will ...
02 Oct 2006: Toe-curling Tory gimmick of the week: Webcameron,...
27 Sept 2006: It's been an eventful few weeks for mooses in the...
24 Sept 2006: President Kennedy once wrote the numbers 9 and 11...
24 Sept 2006: The goal of Secret Technology Labs is to bring yo...
19 Sept 2006: Bald man invents anti-gravity, needs Ł250,000 to ...
18 Sept 2006: The craftmanship displayed by effigy-builders is ...
18 Sept 2006: This is magnificent: A number of Nigerian politic...
17 Sept 2006: As a nun and her bodyguard are murdered in Somali...
17 Sept 2006: The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New...
17 Sept 2006: Somebody's blogging their paranoid delusions, suc...
15 Sept 2006: Oh dear, this smells badly of desperation: Iraq's...
15 Sept 2006: If you've got some spare cash, now might be a goo...
14 Sept 2006: Silly lawsuit alert: A Starbucks customer in the ...
14 Sept 2006: International Community pulls together as strongl...
13 Sept 2006: Pravda's splendid science coverage continues with...
13 Sept 2006: Getting lost in the Australian Outback is slightl...
12 Sept 2006: Of course there's nothing funny about domestic vi...
10 Sept 2006: Just finished reading 'The Air Loom Gang', all ab...
07 Sept 2006: Whenever anyone asks me "Why do we need to travel...
07 Sept 2006: In what some might interpret as a frantic attempt...
06 Sept 2006: William Shatner news: Some of his Star Trek co-st...
04 Sept 2006: The biological shortcomings of B-movie monsters a...
03 Sept 2006: Rabbit show jumping started in Sweden, and is pop...
03 Sept 2006: The Exopolitics Institute works to promote peacef...
31 Aug 2006: Seen on DVD: 'Captain Blood' - not only the very ...
31 Aug 2006: Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water: "He to...
30 Aug 2006: Royal Mail has suspended a postie for telling cus...
29 Aug 2006: The sorry tale of aging anarchist punk Garfield G...
29 Aug 2006: According to an ancient Indian astologer, Pluto's...
25 Aug 2006: It looks like the decision to strip Pluto of its ...
24 Aug 2006: A rather silly dispute has reared its head about ...
24 Aug 2006: Astronomy news: one of our planets just got demot...
24 Aug 2006: Quote of the week: "The scientific mechanisms and...
23 Aug 2006: Bravo to the German police for thwarting an attem...
23 Aug 2006: News snippets: Indonesian prisoners use DIY peppe...
23 Aug 2006: I got back from a long weekend in the Lake Distri...
22 Aug 2006: The promised album of Dolomite pictures is here. ...
15 Aug 2006: Get ready for the crowds outside Iranian embassie...
15 Aug 2006: We in Britain like to snigger at the Americans fo...
14 Aug 2006: It's of course possible that the current airport ...
14 Aug 2006: I'll put together a proper album fairly soon, but...
13 Aug 2006: I get back home from a week of walking and clambe...
02 Aug 2006: Good news in Kansas, as control of the Board of E...
02 Aug 2006: The American Cheese Society promotes cheese and c...
01 Aug 2006: The working language of the European Bureau for L...
31 Jul 2006: What a headline: "Magic Cheese" Turns Out to be a...
27 Jul 2006: There's trouble with fatties in hospital: reinfor...
25 Jul 2006: Thank goodness, it's 'not guilty' in the Strange ...
21 Jul 2006: Pravda's science news continues to excel, recentl...
19 Jul 2006: With a couple of guys from work I went camping in...
12 Jul 2006: I find this quite remarkable: The jury in the cas...
12 Jul 2006: Proof of God via Banana - the funniest video I've...
06 Jul 2006: The death of ultra-fraudster Kenneth Lay of cours...
06 Jul 2006: Piracy of the real sort, not just the making-an-u...
06 Jul 2006: The latest and greatest science news brought to y...
05 Jul 2006: Matt Frei provides valuable expert analysis of th...
04 Jul 2006: To start the month here are a few pictures of no ...
30 Jun 2006: Science and technology news in brief: How to stud...
29 Jun 2006: As the Gaza crisis continues to deepen it would b...
29 Jun 2006: WhereTheHellIsMatt.com shows the travels of a guy...
25 Jun 2006: Pedalled up to Old Knebworth today and had a nose...
23 Jun 2006: A while ago I mentioned that with any luck the in...
22 Jun 2006: Ralph Epperson is a "historian, lecturer, and wri...
22 Jun 2006: Currently showing on the DVD player: Fritz Lang's...
20 Jun 2006: News for the pantomime-going public: David Hassel...
16 Jun 2006: 'Hen Lays Egg' wouldn't normally be newsworthy, b...
16 Jun 2006: Long time no posting. In an attempt to make up, h...
11 Jun 2006: Strange cat behaviour the other evening: Maybe no...
09 Jun 2006: The government's been ordered to make public some...
08 Jun 2006: Get The Hoff to Number 1 want to get David Hassel...
08 Jun 2006: Euphemism Of The Week: "non-voluntary euthanasia"...
07 Jun 2006: Forget the whole "Paul McCartney died in a car cr...
07 Jun 2006: Pravda's gone all creationist on us, trotting out...
06 Jun 2006: Attention, ill-tempered people: it's not your fau...
06 Jun 2006: Spoonbending charlatan Uri Geller was in bubbly f...
30 May 2006: While lesser men squabble and talk, William Shatn...
30 May 2006: It's baby duck season again: This is in danger of...
29 May 2006: NASA's little robots on Mars have performed wonde...
27 May 2006: I see Kim Jong Il's been keeping himself busy. No...
25 May 2006: News story of the week. Top quote: The man called...
21 May 2006: Tim discovered this patent appplication for a "pu...
16 May 2006: While the perennial problem of runaway maids is m...
16 May 2006: Attention, those in the San Francisco bay area: t...
12 May 2006: If you were watching Channel 4 News last night, p...
11 May 2006: Guinea pig liberating extortionists go to jail: J...
10 May 2006: Warner Brothers starts selling one of the least c...
09 May 2006: Seen on DVD at the weekend: 'It Came From Beneath...
07 May 2006: Seeing how well the 'DaVinci Code' did, this coul...
07 May 2006: Strange: Drinkers find pickled corpse in rum barr...
03 May 2006: I thought 'The Apprentice' on TV was just inexpen...
30 Apr 2006: An assorted bag of mixed loonies to keep you ente...
28 Apr 2006: Top news quote of the day: "It's New York City, i...
28 Apr 2006: My desktop calendar tells me that on this day in ...
25 Apr 2006: Photos of someone giving their cat a bath. The po...
25 Apr 2006: As though the people of Sierra Leone haven't suff...
25 Apr 2006: As though the people of Sierra Leone haven't suff...
24 Apr 2006: There's a great comedy letter in the 'The Indepen...
21 Apr 2006: Recent headlines from 'Pravda': "Evolution to mak...
21 Apr 2006: Someone's building a house out of an old Boeing 7...
21 Apr 2006: Robert Pallister writes to 'The Independent' to d...
20 Apr 2006: I saw 'The Intruder' at the weekend, mainly out a...
17 Apr 2006: A man preparing to spend a long dark winter in An...
17 Apr 2006: Kittenwar brings you kittens galore, including ki...
11 Apr 2006: I've finally got round to putting up some photos ...
10 Apr 2006: There are convictions in the case of the body-sna...
10 Apr 2006: I have no clear idea how this works, but it claim...
09 Apr 2006: Tifareth Hypnosis Softwares sell software which f...
09 Apr 2006: God continues to move in the most mysterious of w...
09 Apr 2006: The discovery of a swan killed by bird flu didn't...
04 Apr 2006: Vida Henning writes an exceptionally dizzy letter...
31 Mar 2006: RadioLovers.com has audio files of old radio prog...
31 Mar 2006: What happens when a coal mine catches fire? Nothi...
31 Mar 2006: After banging on about people driving while talki...
28 Mar 2006: It's not just those crazy yanks who are building ...
28 Mar 2006: People across the land reel in amazement on heari...
27 Mar 2006: Spying on the world with Google maps: The Hoover ...
26 Mar 2006: There's an entertaining catfight going on between...
23 Mar 2006: Important breaking news: TV chef Jamie Oliver sho...
20 Mar 2006: I've just got back from another stint in the Cair...
16 Mar 2006: Our lords and masters are changing what our new s...
16 Mar 2006: Memo to self - if ever I end up in hospital to ha...
15 Mar 2006: I was so so wrong, it didn't take days for "Milos...
15 Mar 2006: Milosevic kicked the bucket on the 11th, the cons...
12 Mar 2006: Excellent news: the British porridge industry is ...
11 Mar 2006: In the old days crazy people were restricted to s...
11 Mar 2006: Enjoy the subtle and nuanced artwork of U.S. Poli...
11 Mar 2006: As Milosevic pops his clogs, I'm starting the clo...
08 Mar 2006: This guy thinks various US government agencies ha...
08 Mar 2006: Old and Interesting Gas Stations, including the p...
02 Mar 2006: There is, or so we are told, anger and upset that...
02 Mar 2006: The Scottish Parliament cost 10 times as much and...
28 Feb 2006: George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and auth...
28 Feb 2006: David Irving, who is a revolting man but shouldn'...
26 Feb 2006: Just in case anyone thought the president's ranti...
26 Feb 2006: Three photos of no special importance, from the e...
26 Feb 2006: I was up in Scotland again last weekend, and here...
24 Feb 2006: While I'm on a "crazy tyrant" theme, I may as wel...
24 Feb 2006: Another tragedy, another opportunity for the Pres...
12 Feb 2006: When religion meets quackery we get Rose Grail El...
08 Feb 2006: Surreal tragedy of the day: "Four Die In Afghan C...
08 Feb 2006: In an article sadly plagued by the word "boffin",...
05 Feb 2006: Some accidents are stranger than others. For exam...
03 Feb 2006: Another news story shaking the country today is t...
03 Feb 2006: One of the concerns of those opposed to the publi...
03 Feb 2006: The Cartoon Affair gets ever more heated - now ev...
01 Feb 2006: Do you have alien implants in your ears? Features...
01 Feb 2006: The loons at The Truth Seeker explain how Tony Bl...
31 Jan 2006: Libya's shutting its embassy and gunmen are raidi...
29 Jan 2006: According to assorted crazy people, the Earth is ...
29 Jan 2006: As Google decides to censor itself to please the ...
26 Jan 2006: Seen on DVD: 'The Sea Hawk'. Possibly the first E...
26 Jan 2006: Yesterday evening I went to see Kevin Warwick tal...
24 Jan 2006: Crazy man Greg Szymanski has been deep within the...
24 Jan 2006: Finally the government acts to protect children f...
19 Jan 2006: FleshEatingBacteria.net: the tale of one man and ...
18 Jan 2006: Having covered the "William Shatner to sell his k...
16 Jan 2006: There's confrontation and shenanigans in Antarcti...
14 Jan 2006: For some reason I seem to be in the address book ...
12 Jan 2006: At long last, someone gets round to tackling the ...
11 Jan 2006: Anthony is running an effort to send medical and ...
11 Jan 2006: Schoolchildren's drawings provide an inspirationa...
09 Jan 2006: The Lumberjack World Championships feature events...
09 Jan 2006: I can't quite believe someone invented these: Mee...
08 Jan 2006: How to cook a turkey in a steel dustbin. You neve...
08 Jan 2006: The Principality Of Camside seems to be the inven...
07 Jan 2006: Horsham District Council has a "recurrent problem...
04 Jan 2006: Cat calls the police, saves the day. Top quote: "...
03 Jan 2006: Wonderful picture from Saturn at Astronomy Pictur...
03 Jan 2006: I really can't believe someone actually invented ...
02 Jan 2006: Ben Goldacre's Bad Science is full of good stuff ...
02 Jan 2006: Umbrellas, umbrellas, umbrellas, lots and lots of...
29 Dec 2005: As we draw to the year's end the TV and newspaper...
26 Dec 2005: Massive cat news. Felix (below left), who's a bit...
22 Dec 2005: A comprehensive spycam network which would have b...
22 Dec 2005: Strange crime news: Tiger kills fleeing suspect w...
22 Dec 2005: UN boss reviews 'difficult year' is the headline,...
21 Dec 2005: Eliminate the threat of alien telepathic war and ...
21 Dec 2005: Meat news: Doctor prescribes meat for patients. M...
20 Dec 2005: Stalin wanted an army of invincible monkey soldie...
20 Dec 2005: If I read anything in the press this week which i...
19 Dec 2005: Excellent if sometimes sad galleries with photos ...
19 Dec 2005: Well, that's the Stupid Invention Of The Week pri...
18 Dec 2005: George Galloway takes time at a conference in Mal...
15 Dec 2005: Fintan Dunne, last seen here telling us that Fath...
13 Dec 2005: Behold the horror of corporate songs promoting so...
13 Dec 2005: Comedy statement of the week: IRA 'is not involve...
12 Dec 2005: I wondered when the conspiracy theories would sur...
12 Dec 2005: They seem to be having some success putting the f...
11 Dec 2005: I was rudely awoken in the dead of night by a cou...
07 Dec 2005: Amazingly, Harold Pinter used his Nobel Prize For...
07 Dec 2005: That arch environmental criminal George Bush has ...
07 Dec 2005: Judicial news: Maya Anne Evans, 25, a vegan cook ...
06 Dec 2005: Via Anthony, I see there's trouble over symbols: ...
05 Dec 2005: Assorted and various: The unluckiest goat in Swed...
04 Dec 2005: Those North Korean scientists have been at it aga...
04 Dec 2005: Excellent photo gallery of old machinery, and ano...
02 Dec 2005: When cats stow away. Two months ago the year-old ...
02 Dec 2005: Gah: The RAF has become so stretched by operation...
01 Dec 2005: When rigorous experiment crosses the line into pr...
01 Dec 2005: Not only Hitler, but also the Anti-Christ - as "p...
30 Nov 2005: Experts... where would we be without them? Magnus...
27 Nov 2005: Miscellany of stuff: If you want to blow a padloc...
24 Nov 2005: A couple of odd things: Get telephone privacy whi...
24 Nov 2005: Top quality lunacy over at RAIDERS OF THE LOST TR...
23 Nov 2005: News snippets: Criminal masterminds thwarted. It ...
19 Nov 2005: Celebrity stalkers take note: now could be your o...
18 Nov 2005: Yes, that's me on the letters page, joining the p...
18 Nov 2005: Brrrr, could be a cold winter: Prices of wholesal...
17 Nov 2005: Crazy paranoids of the world, despair: the tinfoi...
17 Nov 2005: I'm in two minds about this: David Irving is bein...
17 Nov 2005: The front pages and editorials are ablaze with ne...
13 Nov 2005: I never knew that sea sponges provide unique insi...
13 Nov 2005: A couple of days ago I expressed surprise that th...
10 Nov 2005: Things from the news: The European Court of Human...
08 Nov 2005: Pictures of no special consequence, for no specia...
08 Nov 2005: All hail the Dundee Harbourmaster for giving us a...
08 Nov 2005: This sounds extremely spurious: Randell Mills [cl...
07 Nov 2005: In an age when people selling bootleg DVDs are de...
04 Nov 2005: World's most useless thing unveiled: A new multim...
02 Nov 2005: Courtesy of the North Korean News Agency today: G...
02 Nov 2005: Things and stuff from people I read: Eric is upse...
01 Nov 2005: Smear yourself in broccoli to protect against can...
01 Nov 2005: This is not funny, and anyone who laughs at it is...
01 Nov 2005: The Independent's front page today provides a 10 ...
27 Oct 2005: Iranian government in "wants Israel wiped off the...
24 Oct 2005: It's a sad reflection on the state of the Conserv...
24 Oct 2005: Genius Idea Of The Week comes from a Guardian rea...
24 Oct 2005: Brazil, which has a high murder rate, has voted o...
23 Oct 2005: 'Car And Driver' magazine goes to Baghdad. The us...
23 Oct 2005: Fire-related things: FireHydrant.org - "the numbe...
21 Oct 2005: Things which are maybe worth a perusal: The "test...
20 Oct 2005: A Guardian journalist's been kidnapped in Baghdad...
20 Oct 2005: Terrible news of a brutal American atrocity has j...
20 Oct 2005: Alongside bird flu, snake proliferation, rogue el...
18 Oct 2005: Photos for no particular importance, for no parti...
18 Oct 2005: A chimpanzee who paints. In Russian, via memepool...
18 Oct 2005: This is disheartening: At any time in the UK, the...
18 Oct 2005: Trying to predict flu outbreaks by trading in flu...
17 Oct 2005: As the Conservative leadership race drags tedious...
17 Oct 2005: Still on matters North Korean, have a look at pyo...
17 Oct 2005: As I was watching 'Dispatches' about North Korea ...
11 Oct 2005: What a barking loony: "Comrades, we need a new cl...
10 Oct 2005: Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill. I'm...
10 Oct 2005: This an open letter to all the world's web develo...
10 Oct 2005: Squander Two's on fine form today with links to t...
09 Oct 2005: Good gallery of yankee shipwrecks, and of wartime...
08 Oct 2005: Zimbabwean government, 9 months ago: there is ple...
05 Oct 2005: The people at the Flood Film Project have a missi...
05 Oct 2005: Multiplying one big speculative number by another...
05 Oct 2005: The mission of the Stalin Society is "to refute c...
04 Oct 2005: After yesterday's effort by Sorcha Faal I thought...
03 Oct 2005: Oh. My. God: [A cancer patient] went to see Graha...
03 Oct 2005: After some time away, Scott makes a welcome retur...
03 Oct 2005: Congratulations of a sort are due to (ahem) "inde...
03 Oct 2005: Surprising new research shows that eating junk ca...
02 Oct 2005: Nutters sometimes produce comic gold. Nature rese...
02 Oct 2005: As Bali is bombed again, there's hardly time for ...
28 Sept 2005: Top quality crankery on various subjects can be f...
28 Sept 2005: Splendid paranoia from the inpatients at The Trut...
26 Sept 2005: A good sunset picture today over at ESPoD, who ar...
26 Sept 2005: In the silliest overtechnical move since using ir...
25 Sept 2005: The First Church of Shatnerology is sort of like ...
24 Sept 2005: Given that some people think "the Bush administra...
22 Sept 2005: fruitarian.com - "We eat raw fruit only…and we fe...
22 Sept 2005: Oh happy day, I've found another news source dire...
19 Sept 2005: Radar images of migrating bird flocks today, at E...
18 Sept 2005: Funniest reaction ever to 'Team America, World Po...
18 Sept 2005: Oh goodness, what a loon: the rip off of the amer...
18 Sept 2005: If you're very concerned for your safety and have...
18 Sept 2005: These people are rebuilding Noah's ark because Ri...
17 Sept 2005: The gallery of airborne cats features concentrati...
17 Sept 2005: Still on a North Korean theme, the parody writing...
17 Sept 2005: The official website of North Korea includes - of...
16 Sept 2005: Kim Jong Il's been busy this week, giving practic...
15 Sept 2005: Invasion of the mutant squirrels: White squirrels...
15 Sept 2005: Award-winning Middle East and steam train corresp...
13 Sept 2005: The North Korean Central News Agency is urging th...
13 Sept 2005: Can anyone help me make sense of the letter to Sa...
13 Sept 2005: Reassurance from the Arab News agony column: Anyo...
10 Sept 2005: Science news: While Pravda reports that "Meditati...
08 Sept 2005: I have long suspected that the main effect of gov...
08 Sept 2005: Writes Tim Hinchliffe of Beckenham in today's 'In...
08 Sept 2005: The Milton Keynes Museum has an exhibition of law...
08 Sept 2005: walesinabottle.com - selling bottles of air from ...
08 Sept 2005: Oh yes, putting a collar with a bell on her at th...
03 Sept 2005: The definitive word so far on the hurricane comes...
03 Sept 2005: Strange behaviour: Hamas has for the first time m...
03 Sept 2005: The little-known history of cholera, brought to y...
03 Sept 2005: Sidney Blumenthal gets stuck into what's really i...
01 Sept 2005: Before you go to see the film, make sure you read...
01 Sept 2005: What I saw on my holidays. Mainly mountains. ...
29 Aug 2005: Another breakthrough in North Korean medical scie...
28 Aug 2005: US Patent Number 5,993,336: "Method of executing ...
28 Aug 2005: What a great poster: 'Mr Peanut Goes To War!' ...
28 Aug 2005: I thought this thing with people on display at th...
27 Aug 2005: Remember, folks, it's all about the alien lizards...
27 Aug 2005: Hmmm... "Billy" Eduard Albert Meier was born in B...
27 Aug 2005: CatsInSinks.com: What is Cats in Sinks? It's obvi...
27 Aug 2005: I got a reply to my enquiry about whether the BBC...
26 Aug 2005: MIT Media Lab's done it again. The people who bro...
26 Aug 2005: Criminal mastermind comes unstuck: A thief who wa...
25 Aug 2005: Following the violent cowing of a farmer, a spoke...
25 Aug 2005: When sea anemones attack: Clashing colonies of se...
25 Aug 2005: Whatever would we do without terrorism experts? V...
24 Aug 2005: I'm just getting photos sorted out from my time i...
24 Aug 2005: Real life is determined to stay stranger than any...
23 Aug 2005: Today marks a sad victory for barbarous thuggery,...
23 Aug 2005: Relationship advice from Saudi Arabia's leading E...
22 Aug 2005: Don't worry, I'm not dead - I've just got back fr...
06 Aug 2005: If Squander2 liked that, he'll love this. Fintan ...
06 Aug 2005: Assorted strangeness from the pages of Pravda: Th...
02 Aug 2005: The Hyper Dimensional Resonator is a time travel ...
31 Jul 2005: According to some, not only were the London bombi...
30 Jul 2005: Assorted collections and museums: Learn all about...
30 Jul 2005: Some sort of sales record achieved: Michael Jacks...
24 Jul 2005: I notice The Truth Seeker has a couple of new con...
25 Jul 2005: Letter writers to today's Independent identify a ...
23 Jul 2005: Just catching up on yesterday's news, I'm trying ...
22 Jul 2005: It's amazing what you can see at Google Maps: Sai...
21 Jul 2005: After being taken ill shortly after the London bo...
20 Jul 2005: The Russian government's come over all nostalgic ...
19 Jul 2005: Odd Books has some truly odd books, including som...
19 Jul 2005: Have you ever wanted the power to predict the fut...
15 Jul 2005: Via Crypto-Gram: MD5 is now hopelessly broken, wi...
15 Jul 2005: Display technologies that make you go "oooh"... T...
15 Jul 2005: Ooooh, scary: Joe Vialls has been taken suddenly ...
13 Jul 2005: Via Smuffler's World, some beautiful and quite su...
12 Jul 2005: Tariq Ali is of course being wheeled out to spout...
12 Jul 2005: Feel compelled to do an update on London bombing ...
12 Jul 2005: Letter rattled off to Peter Horrocks, Head of TV ...
12 Jul 2005: Keep up to date with those those pesky aliens at ...
07 Jul 2005: Meanwhile, in North Korea, the great leader Kim J...
07 Jul 2005: Cospiracy loons such as the inpatients at The Tru...
07 Jul 2005: Lindsay's passed along those music questions to m...
04 Jul 2005: The Labour government and its members continue a ...
03 Jul 2005: Oh. My. God. Somewhere in the rarefied heights of...
02 Jul 2005: Via the somewhat strange weblog all about Uri Gel...
30 Jun 2005: What a peculiar picture. I assume it made more se...
30 Jun 2005: Didn't Douglas Adams warn us about this sort of t...
30 Jun 2005: Tony Blair to be interviewed by Destiny's Child a...
29 Jun 2005: Following a senior policeman's call for a knife r...
26 Jun 2005: No, this cannot be. Richard Whiteley can't die......
26 Jun 2005: There are many great drawings and paintings and d...
23 Jun 2005: BadMovies.net is devoted to, erm, bad movies. Pul...
23 Jun 2005: This open letter to the Kansas School Board is a ...
23 Jun 2005: Don't American legislators have better things to ...
21 Jun 2005: Via Bruce Schneier: "King, who in civilian life i...
20 Jun 2005: New for summer, the amazing and splendid summary ...
20 Jun 2005: Oh how I love a silly story. The British Potato C...
16 Jun 2005: Let me apologise for neglecting the Gallery Of Fo...
16 Jun 2005: Oh look, a canoeist sliding down a dam spillway. ...
16 Jun 2005: Crime news roundup: Armed robber comes unstuck in...
14 Jun 2005: Woo-hoo, A L Kennedy's back in the Guardian. Her ...
14 Jun 2005: Early morning cat update. Meg*: 1. Local wildlife...
13 Jun 2005: Ah, the Entente Cordiale, isn't it great? France ...
11 Jun 2005: MedievalArmour.co.uk: for all your medieval armou...
10 Jun 2005: I e-mailed Andrew Buncombe about the "rising tide...
09 Jun 2005: Assorted crankery: Elvis was an Illuminati slave!...
09 Jun 2005: For just $150 (plus shipping and taxes) you can s...
09 Jun 2005: The other week a group of doctors called for a ba...
09 Jun 2005: North Korea to build more nuclear bombs while let...
07 Jun 2005: "In God we Trust: America's rising religious zeal...
06 Jun 2005: The US Food and Drug Administration's gallery of ...
06 Jun 2005: Agh, this might be the most nonsensical cost-savi...
04 Jun 2005: Quick, everybody dash to the bookshop and snap up...
04 Jun 2005: Oh this is amazing: "The Weirdest Book I Ever Got...
02 Jun 2005: At last an end to social awkwardness, with the gu...
02 Jun 2005: Helicopter lands on summit of Everest. Well done,...
01 Jun 2005: Yay! First the French, now the Dutch: Voters in t...
31 May 2005: The Nome Nugget: Alaska's oldest newspaper. Nome ...
31 May 2005: I've been off in the Lake District for a few days...
25 May 2005: Amazingly, a study has shown that the children of...
22 May 2005: The Complete Sherlock Holmes stories, including i...
22 May 2005: Woman's runny nose turns out to be leaking brain ...
19 May 2005: Medical science in North Korea continues to leap ...
18 May 2005: No, Mark, that's not research. This is research: ...
16 May 2005: We're doomed: celebrities are full of poison. Cle...
16 May 2005: Over at Club Conspiracy, they've been talking abo...
14 May 2005: For just $8.95 plus shipping you can be the proud...
14 May 2005: The cats were let outside today for the first tim...
12 May 2005: Alan Johnson of Labour Friends of Iraq in today's...
11 May 2005: India Daily has a Sci/Tech section with the most ...
11 May 2005: A L Kennedy, fresh from demanding coherent debate...
07 May 2005: Revolutionaries still living in a past age, be su...
07 May 2005: Up in my folks' neck of the woods, this guy was s...
07 May 2005: Overheard in New York... Dumb teen: Hey, look at ...
06 May 2005: The Kansas state school board has begun four days...
06 May 2005: That's me in the letters page, writing in respons...
06 May 2005: Oh, bugger - of all the crap news to wake to... a...
05 May 2005: As politician vs politician plays out in the nati...
04 May 2005: While "The Curious Case Of Napoleon's Trousers" m...
04 May 2005: There's stiff competition for the prestigious Sil...
03 May 2005: Cat update: Felix came out of hiding on Sunday mo...
03 May 2005: Yesterday's earth-shaking developments suddenly s...
02 May 2005: Drop everything, hold the newspaper front pages, ...
02 May 2005: Any news article which the powers-that-be don't w...
01 May 2005: I'm trying to think of the last time I saw anythi...
01 May 2005: Assorted camera output to add some colour: ...
30 Apr 2005: Cats arrived last night - I have cats! Or rather ...
29 Apr 2005: Riddle me this, dear readers... why does Robin Co...
29 Apr 2005: Yesterday was someone's birthday, but he didn't g...
29 Apr 2005: Astronomy Picture of the Day is fantastic today: ...
29 Apr 2005: The Guardian's Polly Toynbee, fresh from denounci...
28 Apr 2005: One from the stating-the-obvious department. An e...
28 Apr 2005: The shell around the Chernobyl nuclear plant cont...
27 Apr 2005: Via Eric - Silence Of The Lambs, the musical. Som...
27 Apr 2005: Good to see that the menace of overly political f...
27 Apr 2005: It flies! ...
26 Apr 2005: In EU Constitution news, Messrs Schroeder and Chi...
25 Apr 2005: After costing a mere £430M to build, the Sc...
22 Apr 2005: You may have been wondering how well stocked Brit...
22 Apr 2005: A surreal moment on this morning's 'Today' progra...
21 Apr 2005: Fun in boats: Reed boats. The Canadian Canoe Muse...
21 Apr 2005: It's a miracle! A co-worker of mine commented: "S...
19 Apr 2005: Respect Watch has identified a special task for G...
18 Apr 2005: One of the oddest things I've seen in a while is ...
18 Apr 2005: Police monkeys! ...
17 Apr 2005: Odd, but I'd have thought a "spot-on quickfire" s...
15 Apr 2005: Brain-related things: Remote-controlled flies - c...
15 Apr 2005: This Is Not Right: on top of a rise in fraud-vuln...
14 Apr 2005: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film, due ou...
14 Apr 2005: Wonderful video clip (3MB, WMV format) just forwa...
13 Apr 2005: The esteemed Members of the European Parliament h...
13 Apr 2005: Yes, folks... that cute baby duck time of year's ...
13 Apr 2005: Richard Norton-Taylor (the Guardian's security af...
12 Apr 2005: Cheese News - the source of cheese related news. ...
11 Apr 2005: London's David Leal puts his finger on the sinist...
08 Apr 2005: News snippets: Wind turbine annoys prisoners, get...
08 Apr 2005: This guy, with plans for giant flying windmills, ...
08 Apr 2005: Polly Toynbee's jumped aboard the "blame the Pope...
07 Apr 2005: Quote of the day, I think, from Anthony: Changing...
07 Apr 2005: There's the most amazing leader article in today'...
07 Apr 2005: People are coming up with homebrew Play-Station m...
07 Apr 2005: Sad penguin news. I like penguins. ...
07 Apr 2005: Another sordid tale of prisoner abuse in Iraq: Sa...
06 Apr 2005: I was going to write a rapier-sharp post about th...
06 Apr 2005: Way to damn with faint praise: Michael Howard may...
04 Apr 2005: Think that clever fingerprint-recognition systems...
04 Apr 2005: The Welsh are a filthy nation who live in squalor...
04 Apr 2005: Whatever would we do without government advisory ...
03 Apr 2005: The flag on the abbey was at half mast today, pre...
01 Apr 2005: I know this is very bad of me, but a small part o...
31 Mar 2005: When I heard about this plan I thought "cool!": A...
31 Mar 2005: Those North Korean medical scientists have done i...
29 Mar 2005: Photos from pedalling round on my bike over the l...
27 Mar 2005: This is odd. Famous and fearless investigative jo...
26 Mar 2005: Good stuff in this month's 'Scientific American':...
24 Mar 2005: Sorry, a couple of bits which I missed earlier: f...
24 Mar 2005: More bits and bobs: Let's hear it for Brian Edler...
23 Mar 2005: Various bits and bobs: We're doooomed! It's offic...
23 Mar 2005: Further to yesterday's post about Eugene Jarecki'...
22 Mar 2005: This post has grown from a comment I made over at...
19 Mar 2005: Oh, wow, there's enough nutcakes to feed a regime...
18 Mar 2005: Top surreal moments at the end of this morning's ...
17 Mar 2005: Apologies for the delay in getting around to writ...
16 Mar 2005: In more upbeat robot news, those clever Finns hav...
16 Mar 2005: Oh, nothing brightens up the day quite like wino ...
15 Mar 2005: Sam's guide to how to destroy the Earth is funny....
13 Mar 2005: The latest from the troubled mind of "private inv...
13 Mar 2005: A house a few minutes walk from mine has this orn...
09 Mar 2005: Via Exclamation Mark, the excellent Ming the Merc...
09 Mar 2005: Well, this report had a disappointing headline. W...
08 Mar 2005: Oh deary me, it seems that no sooner does someone...
08 Mar 2005: Spider-Man's Greatest Bible Stories are brilliant...
08 Mar 2005: Hold the front pages: George Bush and Tony Blair ...
08 Mar 2005: Having been busier than normal in the real world ...
28 Feb 2005: Attention, squirrel enthusiasts; the nation's squ...
28 Feb 2005: In the unintentionally comic Socialist Worker let...
28 Feb 2005: Something's certainly going on in Lebanon; with d...
25 26 Feb 2005: I'm a bit slowing catching this, for which I prof...
24 Feb 2005: Ancient cat. ...
24 Feb 2005: While I have no doubt that his death is a genuine...
24 Feb 2005: You know how all that stuff about the EU assuming...
24 Feb 2005: Long time no update. I've been busy, busy, busy. ...
17 Feb 2005: Gary Younge, The Guardian's bloke in the States, ...
16 Feb 2005: Leonard Nimoy's brief and rather regrettable musi...
16 Feb 2005: The Museum of Food Anomalies made me laugh so muc...
15 Feb 2005: News quote of the day: "We are hoping the communi...
15 Feb 2005: Unintentionally comic Socialist Worker letters of...
15 Feb 2005: Writing in today's Independent about Monday's kil...
11 Feb 2005: I'm still having great fun over at the Ablution s...
11 Feb 2005: There's just no pleasing people, is there? They a...
09 Feb 2005: Today I've been posting over at The Daily Ablutio...
08 Feb 2005: The National Association of Kebab Shops: The Nati...
08 Feb 2005: Haven't posted in ages... cobble something togeth...
03 Feb 2005: I know you've probably been asking yourself "wher...
03 Feb 2005: Graveyard of the post boxes. ...
03 Feb 2005: A Lego ninja-themed chess set. Also, a Lego great...
02 Feb 2005: A history of helmets, from 'Invention & Technolog...
02 Feb 2005: Amazing colour photographs from WW1. Now of cours...
01 Feb 2005: It's not often that kidnap and threats of killing...
01 Feb 2005: How extraordinary. Coffee from beans which have b...
31 Jan 2005: Pretentious knitting-related article: Katie Bevan...
31 Jan 2005: So... which cartoon did the 'Independent' decide ...
31 Jan 2005: Alice Mahon MP (VP of the Stop The War Coalition)...
30 Jan 2005: Various things: Iraqis vote in large numbers. Goo...
30 Jan 2005: Terry Eagleton, the Manchester University profess...
27 Jan 2005: I've just stumbled on Channel 4 showing 'Fahrenhe...
26 Jan 2005: If you want nutrition data, you might do worse th...
26 Jan 2005: I've just had a thought about this EU constitutio...
25 Jan 2005: I feel a bit nervous taking issue with today's Zo...
24 Jan 2005: Lots of photographs from China: Also; the install...
22 Jan 2005: Amazing medical paint isn't the only project Kim ...
20 Jan 2005: All the most important news from around the world...
20 Jan 2005: Webcams of Durham cathedral (with added bonus rai...
19 Jan 2005: This is very strange, although I am a natural ent...
19 Jan 2005: The jury is of course the cornerstone of Anglo-Sa...
19 Jan 2005: Scott takes issue with Simon Tisdall's Guardian p...
18 Jan 2005: They've officially unveiled the Airbus A380, and ...
16 Jan 2005: It's good to see the Guardian has a healthy sense...
15 Jan 2005: This guy has a very impressive collection of some...
15 Jan 2005: More stuff from Huygens, including an amazing 360...
15 Jan 2005: Oh wow; you can search or browse the Press Compla...
15 Jan 2005: Well done Huygens: safely down and a bucketful of...
12 Jan 2005: If you want the latest breaking news on where Elv...
12 Jan 2005: In the Apothecary's Drawer recently: maths! Maths...
12 Jan 2005: Oh well, it turns out that Saddam was actually as...
12 Jan 2005: Groundbreaking technical leap forward from North ...
11 Jan 2005: The Journal Of Non-Lethal Combat (?!) brings us t...
11 Jan 2005: Lots of good old adverts here. Best car ad slogan...
11 Jan 2005: The ever-reliable George Monbiot writes today ("i...
11 Jan 2005: Cunning plan thwarted: A man feared dead in the A...
10 Jan 2005: Channel 4, as part of its "War On Terra" (get it?...
09 Jan 2005: Good pictures of a whisk. And a tree in the snow,...
09 Jan 2005: In a letter to the Observer, Manchester's John Ni...
09 Jan 2005: In stimulant news: cocaine "cheaper than cappucci...
09 Jan 2005: D'oh! ...
08 Jan 2005: Jonathan Cainer, who is an astrologer and therefo...
06 Jan 2005: Roman Emperors dot org: the ideal resource for ch...
06 Jan 2005: This is unhelpful and unsettling: redefining stre...
06 Jan 2005: Phil asks: "Who knew that metal could grow nano-w...
05 Jan 2005: Earthquakes are fickle things: one killed umpteen...
04 Jan 2005: Joe Vialls, the Web's favourite loony, gave us su...
04 Jan 2005: As part of the struggle "for a world based on fre...
04 Jan 2005: Ohmygod. Via a long chain, Squander Two links to ...
04 Jan 2005: The year is only four days old, but the prize for...
23 Dec 2004: It's drawing to the end of a year which has seen ...
22 Dec 2004: This is an update to the affair of George Monbiot...
22 Dec 2004: According to official British government advice, ...
22 Dec 2004: Is being a Guardian columnist the easiest job in ...
21 Dec 2004: D'oh! There's a lot of money down the drain. Hey ...
21 Dec 2004: George Monbiot, writing his regular column in the...
21 Dec 2004: In a letter to today's Independent, Bill Morgan s...
20 Dec 2004: I thought this specialised biscuit-dunking mug lo...
20 Dec 2004: Ahhh, don't you love the way headlines, statistic...
20 Dec 2004: Grrrrr... In the first Commons vote on the scheme...
20 Dec 2004: Festive spirit had clearly been consumed in some ...
18 Dec 2004: Oh lordy. A publicity-hungry conspiracy theorist ...
18 Dec 2004: Heh, I caught the end of 'Muppets' Christmas Caro...
18 Dec 2004: Anthony links to the Top Ten overhyped health sca...
17 Dec 2004: News roundup: Mysterious poo from the sky to be i...
16 Dec 2004: You've always wondered what an ambulanceman has i...
16 Dec 2004: Ewgh: A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken...
15 Dec 2004: Now here's something you don't read every day: A ...
14 Dec 2004: There were reports a while back that portraits of...
13 Dec 2004: I interrupt this website for an urgent Public Inf...
12 Dec 2004: You know 'The Land That Time Forgot'? The "depth ...
11 Dec 2004: Some good photos in these galleries from whoever ...
11 Dec 2004: The Periodic Table of Comic Books: Click on an el...
10 Dec 2004: What an amazingly silly article. ...
08 Dec 2004: I can now have total confidence in the integrity ...
08 Dec 2004: Long awaited production of quality injection-moul...
08 Dec 2004: Racist thugs find themselves in an embarrassing p...
08 Dec 2004: Real life just keeps getting harder to distinguis...
07 Dec 2004: An entertaining tale in yesterday's Indy's letter...
05 Dec 2004: I can't help feeling this site is turning into a ...
05 Dec 2004: The Universal Way is a cornucopia of crackpottery...
04 Dec 2004: Via Damian, I see the Tehran Times is saying that...
03 Dec 2004: I strongly suspect this is apocryphal, as it was ...
03 Dec 2004: A pitchfork-wielding mob of outraged peasants hav...
02 Dec 2004: Ed went to Antarctica to fly helicopters, and he ...
02 Dec 2004: Larry writes about Canada: Mock them if you must,...
02 Dec 2004: Huh? Galloway wins Saddam libel case I think I ne...
01 Dec 2004: After the giant conventionally styled 747 and A38...
30 Nov 2004: Space news: Implausibly hairy man has an asteroid...
28 Nov 2004: Assortment of photos: ...
26 Nov 2004: It's the weekend, so it's time for... gymnastic p...
24 Nov 2004: "Kim Jong Il Praised by American" is the lead new...
24 Nov 2004: I don't normally find myself grumbling about the ...
24 Nov 2004: TurnYourBackOnBush.org are trying to get people p...
23 Nov 2004: Via Norm I see the Guardian reports that Joseph M...
23 Nov 2004: Strange patent application rejected. Top quote: T...
22 Nov 2004: This is quite surreal. I mentioned yesterday that...
22 Nov 2004: While we're waiting for the verdict, here's the v...
22 Nov 2004: Pamela Kinnunen, who spends every Wednesday eveni...
22 Nov 2004: Writing about the decisions to be made by the jud...
21 Nov 2004: I finally got around to an overdue gallery update...
20 Nov 2004: Lawrence the cat - Rick's new friend, seems to be...
20 Nov 2004: Oh no, here comes a silly health scare, this time...
20 Nov 2004: One to file under "hard lesson not learnt". A cou...
20 Nov 2004: A fine photo album of Patagonia, featuring pengui...
18 Nov 2004: The big question for today is "has David Blunkett...
17 Nov 2004: I thought Privacy International had more sense th...
17 Nov 2004: Yes, I know I'm slow to mention it, but I see Geo...
16 Nov 2004: Peruvian police aren't fooled by the old "hiding ...
14 Nov 2004: Gallery of high speed photographs. ...
12 Nov 2004: Long-awaited showings of North Korean cinematic a...
12 Nov 2004: Professor David Colquhoun writes to The Independe...
10 Nov 2004: Oh deary deary me, A L Kennedy's at it again, thi...
10 Nov 2004: I woke up this morning to the dulcet tones of Rob...
09 Nov 2004: The paintings of Rolf Harris. ...
09 Nov 2004: A useful tool for anyone travelling around in Aus...
08 Nov 2004: Talentless doodler Widely published political car...
08 Nov 2004: The full horrible implications of Bush winning th...
08 Nov 2004: You can't ever say I don't trawl the web finding ...
05 Nov 2004: Some odds and ends... Vaclav Havel's cow beats al...
04 Nov 2004: North Korea's Ryongji duck farm, which you may re...
04 Nov 2004: Some spammers look set to go to jail. Excellent! ...
04 Nov 2004: You may remember that a few months ago Michael Mo...
04 Nov 2004: Just as you were wondering when scientists will g...
04 Nov 2004: Can't find a picture anywhere, but The Independen...
03 Nov 2004: The fat lady just started singing: Kerry admits U...
03 Nov 2004: In the battleground state of Ohio: Republican sen...
03 Nov 2004: Gagh, I've had it up to here [indicates level som...
02 Nov 2004: Mysterious creature lurks in courthouse: Judge He...
02 Nov 2004: There's trouble among the poets. Someone called D...
01 Nov 2004: Some photos from a wander with friends in Epping ...
01 Nov 2004: Sadly the answer to my question about how long it...
29 Oct 2004: Well well, so Bin Laden is alive after all, produ...
29 Oct 2004: Yes, yes, I'm well aware that the big news today ...
29 Oct 2004: On Wednesday, a Cuban delegation to North Korea v...
28 Oct 2004: A few odds and ends: Drunken honey bees. Harry ex...
27 Oct 2004: A L Kennedy's writing in today's Guardian and I m...
26 Oct 2004: At long last, scientists have finally found a use...
22 Oct 2004: Wow - I take back every unkind word about the Sco...
22 Oct 2004: A disturbing tale of a mixup with an autopilot: A...
21 Oct 2004: In the Independent letters page today, Xavier Gal...
21 Oct 2004: In the voice of that excitable Japanese guy from ...
20 Oct 2004: Hold the front pages: the prime minister of Israe...
19 Oct 2004: I need a contact address for Ken Loach. As it's o...
19 Oct 2004: Scott managed to get along to the demonstration a...
19 Oct 2004: In a word: bugger. ...
19 Oct 2004: Dear Greg, &...
15 Oct 2004: In today's news from North Korea we are reminded ...
14 Oct 2004: North Korean duck production is bound to soar now...
14 Oct 2004: I must be brief... Following yesterday's revalati...
13 Oct 2004: Imagine my disappointment that being otherwise en...
13 Oct 2004: Aron Ralston, who you may remember as that guy wh...
12 Oct 2004: Now I'm even more confused than normal. "Equipmen...
11 Oct 2004: Old Buccaneer laid up at the fantastically named ...
11 Oct 2004: Media news which I can't believe I somehow manage...
08 Oct 2004: News roundup: Probe urged into baffling "supply a...
07 Oct 2004: George Galloway deploys the ever-credible defence...
07 Oct 2004: Vincent Van Gogh doll (with removeable ear). Faaa...
07 Oct 2004: Naomi Klein, who so fearlessly revealed that the ...
05 Oct 2004: Robots prepare to boldly go where no robots have ...
04 Oct 2004: A consignment of weapons-grade plutonium is en-ro...
04 Oct 2004: Mmmm... Ukrainian lard festival. ...
29 Sept 2004: In news that will cause widespread amazement and ...
29 Sept 2004: Yesterday had good news, so today we have the bad...
29 Sept 2004: Today's Big Question: are Pitcairn islanders a bu...
28 Sept 2004: Good news: some hostages have been released in Ir...
28 Sept 2004: Croatian goat beauty contest. Top quote: "I alway...
28 Sept 2004: Terabyte on a disc? Now that's what I call storag...
28 Sept 2004: George Monbiot's getting agitated that people hav...
27 Sept 2004: The Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House has ...
23 Sept 2004: Holy giant machines, Batman! (via Lindsay). ...
23 Sept 2004: The day after his captors in Iraq force Kenneth B...
21 Sept 2004: This hamster powered light is powered by Skippy t...
21 Sept 2004: If you have £20,000 knocking about spare th...
21 Sept 2004: Hey, I thought I was supposed to be the "Boris Jo...
20 Sept 2004: Squander Two has more about the Scottish Parliame...
20 Sept 2004: Kitten narrowly escapes watery death in washing m...
17 Sept 2004: Strange goings on in Australia, where they have a...
17 Sept 2004: Update on the giant North Korean mushroom cloud: ...
16 Sept 2004: First we had Nick Berg being "beheaded by America...
14 Sept 2004: The North Korean Central News Ageny gets into not...
14 Sept 2004: A L Kennedy, who regular readers will know is one...
13 Sept 2004: A huge mystery explosion in North Korea causes ba...
10 Sept 2004: I've found that North Korean music, but I was wro...
10 Sept 2004: The Scottish Parliament has a Scots language sect...
10 Sept 2004: In the People's Utopia of North Korea, celebratio...
10 Sept 2004: I've just realised that of course the classic new...
10 Sept 2004: Hold the front page for the classic news story......
09 Sept 2004: The International Fainting Goat Association. They...
09 Sept 2004: In the People's Utopia of North Korea the nationa...
09 Sept 2004: Damn and blast. ...
08 Sept 2004: Woah, this is creepy. Police in Paris have discov...
08 Sept 2004: In a victory for free expression and debate the N...
07 Sept 2004: Oh, well this is cheery: the Royal Navy will be r...
07 Sept 2004: Oooh, lots of damn fine photos of car bonnet orna...
06 Sept 2004: Loonies ahoy, at... Revised History: We shall cit...
06 Sept 2004: Experimental ground-effect flying boats. ...
06 Sept 2004: I've finally got round to some gallery updates. B...
05 Sept 2004: Straight from the I-can't-believe-they-sell-this-...
03 Sept 2004: Some gallery updates are due soon. Some notes, sc...
03 Sept 2004: In today's 'Independent' letters page Andrew Crom...
03 Sept 2004: Just in case the thing that really annoys you abo...
03 Sept 2004: Tim Blair has photos from the floor of the Republ...
02 Sept 2004: The history of phrenology, the art of guessing ch...
01 Sept 2004: Quentin Tarantino in a Muppets version of 'Wizard...
01 Sept 2004: Laser shoots down mortar bombs. ...
31 Aug 2004: Some gay and lesbian campaigners in the US are un...
25 Aug 2004: Now there's another thing to blame on George Bush...
25 Aug 2004: Is Mark Thatcher, previously famous only for gett...
24 Aug 2004: Oooh. Sealion meets diver at Martha's underwater ...
24 Aug 2004: Displaying what I believe is called chutzpah, the...
24 Aug 2004: Sensitive Light brings you galleries of stunning ...
19 Aug 2004: Chicken phobia sufferers, cure your fear of chick...
17 Aug 2004: David Sparks (tireless denouncer of racist imperi...
16 Aug 2004: Britain gets medals in made-up event. "Synchronis...
13 Aug 2004: Hmmm. Compare this picture with this picture. And...
13 Aug 2004: Cave diving photo galleries. It certainly looks l...
13 Aug 2004: Amazingly enough, the CBI favour ID cards, even i...
12 Aug 2004: I don't know who the Institute for Energy and Env...
12 Aug 2004: The Japanese have just managed the first successf...
12 Aug 2004: Now that's not something you see every day. ...
11 Aug 2004: A cornucopia of superb photos, including dunes, m...
10 Aug 2004: All together now: awwwwhhhh. ...
10 Aug 2004: As if doping at the Olympics wasn't bad enough, n...
05 Aug 2004: There's a Hollywood behind-the-scenes type of per...
04 Aug 2004: Is nothing sacred anymore? ...
04 Aug 2004: A reply from the Today programme came through to ...
04 Aug 2004: Super furry animals, from park visit on Saturday:...
04 Aug 2004: Scandal du jour: the recent warning issued by the...
03 Aug 2004: Oooh, the weather's just gone all spectacular her...
03 Aug 2004: Don't worry, I'm not dead: just tangled up with a...
30 July 2004: Am I dreaming, or is it slowly dawning even on th...
29 July 2004: Mammal news roundup: When cows attack! Elephant b...
29 July 2004: I had a phone call this morning from a very nice ...
28 July 2004: Woo-hoo. £20 (yes, 20 whole shiny pounds) w...
28 July 2004: In a move that only a paranoid warmonger would in...
27 July 2004: The nation is being shocked to its core today by ...
26 July 2004: Administrative note: It's approaching the time wh...
26 July 2004: Laugh: it's funny. ...
26 July 2004: Harry's feeling a bit directionless at the moment...
26 July 2004: In news that will send shockwaves around the worl...
26 July 2004: The Stout Infantfish is now officially the world'...
23 July 2004: Florida's Save The Manatee Club have a manatee ad...
23 July 2004: In a letter to the 'Independent' the wonderfully ...
23 July 2004: How, in this day and age, can a whole load of hom...
20 July 2004: Dear BBC News Online, In "Clinton aide removed te...
20 July 2004: In the news today: Man Shoots Dog. ...
16 July 2004: A couple of days ago I was puzzled by what A L Ke...
16 July 2004: An update on this story. So far... I e-mailed Tod...
16 July 2004: Ooopsy: One of America's largest nuclear weapons ...
15 July 2004: Amaze and revolt your friends in equal measure wi...
15 July 2004: Today's prestigious Prize For Totally Missing The...
14 July 2004: Today is Bastille Day, and the 46th anniversary o...
14 July 2004: A L Kennedy provides a lesson for us all today of...
13 July 2004: In the future, when you go camping, your tent may...
08 July 2004: News roundup: Rabbit burns down shed (okay, so no...
07 July 2004: "Help! I need to stick some things together." "In...
06 July 2004: Don't laugh - this could happen to anyone. ...
06 July 2004: The wildlife and landscape of the Nevada nuclear ...
05 July 2004: From this evening's Channel 4 mail bulletin (my e...
04 July 2004: I would have posted this yesterday, but had 1001 ...
02 July 2004: Confession: I am an outlaw, with an out of date c...
01 July 2004: Hmmm, perhaps slightly over-analysing things ? Th...
01 July 2004: Caution: wet paint! ...
30 June 2004: As Saddam is handed back to Iraqi jurisdiction, t...
28 June 2004: New entries into the gallery today include no les...
28 June 2004: "Feet and inches: delicious but deadly!" is the m...
28 June 2004: Uh-oh... witchcraft! ...
27 June 2004: In the world of monster machines you can find the...
26 June 2004: I've had an amicable exchange of e-mail with Ian ...
25 June 2004: Arnie in instant puppy murder shock! This evening...
23 June 2004: More birds of prey than you would ever dare to sh...
23 June 2004: Fidel Castro's been at it again with his Bush = H...
23 June 2004: Drunken staggering simulator (needs Flash™)....
23 June 2004: Britain: way ahead of Europe in those areas that ...
22 June 2004: Men in silly hats. They have a mission statement:...
22 June 2004: Ian Flintoff (who I think is an actor) writes in ...
21 June 2004: Here's one for the "20-20 Hindsight" department.....
21 June 2004: Police in Luton are looking for a man with a dama...
18 June 2004: The Worlds Largest Ball of Paint: Imagine an ordi...
18 June 2004: According to the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, fat...
17 June 2004: Formula 1 cars may be about to get quicker thanks...
17 June 2004: What an amazing looking place. And there are mons...
17 June 2004: Something tells me that Harry isn't greatly enthu...
15 June 2004: In a belated update to the bunker seige story, th...
15 June 2004: Back in January I wrote about an activist who was...
13 June 2004: Ozzie beach lifeguards are "progressively rolling...
13 June 2004: Wow, this site's been described as "the Boris Joh...
13 June 2004: These guys probably laugh at a mere 4-engined 1:1...
10 June 2004: Britain is positively abuzz with excitement today...
10 June 2004: Heh: A work of art made by Tracey Emin for model ...
09 June 2004: For a number of reasons I've been mainly feeling ...
08 June 2004: Measuring the Effect of Tree Hugging! Very, very ...
07 June 2004: George Galloway on the UN and sanctions against I...
07 June 2004: Cheese and ham, often dismissed as a mere sandwic...
03 June 2004: "Saudi attack: Your reaction" at the BBC, and peo...
03 June 2004: PC idle time has just found a huge new prime numb...
01 June 2004: I think that given recent events, the upbeat stra...
01 June 2004: Wanderings with my camera: ...
31 May 2004: Woooh, a cheese-related quiz reveals that I am bl...
31 May 2004: I've put six new entries in the gallery, but then...
30 May 2004: Just added another corking delusional rant by Way...
29 May 2004: Yet more depressing infiltration into the mainstr...
28 May 2004: Three random photos: Spiky tropical leaf. Wall wi...
28 May 2004: Hippo sweat is magical stuff, apparently. Hooray ...
28 May 2004: Theremin World - for all your theremin needs. Tha...
26 May 2004: Oh no - how will the nation ever recover from thi...
25 May 2004: Everybody needs a hobby, like building small mode...
24 May 2004: cryptozoology.com - all about mythical beasties. ...
21 May 2004: "Axl Rose stole my guitar" before he was famous. ...
19 May 2004: Quick roundup of the Nick Berg beheading conspira...
18 May 2004: George Monbiot's in reliably batty form today for...
17 May 2004: Various pictures, drawings and graphics links: Pr...
17 May 2004: After saying that Disney were suppressing his fil...
15 May 2004: Definitely time to lighten the mood so it's "wand...
14 May 2004: Hmmm... Al Jazeera are promoting crazed conspirac...
12 May 2004: So this gruesome videoed murder of an American is...
12 May 2004: "Regulate the regulator" is the headline and them...
12 May 2004: An Associated Press report at yahoo, under the he...
10 May 2004: For the benefit of the confused professor, I have...
10 May 2004: I was going to comment on this article by Richard...
10 May 2004: A wonderfully batty article in Arab News (the Mid...
10 May 2004: Henry Porter (who is an author) wrote in yesterda...
09 May 2004: Some good architectual sketches from an age when ...
09 May 2004: Someone please remind me which century this is: B...
08 May 2004: Some photos of an Antarctic crevasse. ...
08 May 2004: I've updated the gallery, with Take Back The Medi...
08 May 2004: Some good photographs, in particular the model sp...
07 May 2004: Well I promised yesterday that I'd mention Disney...
07 May 2004: Daft but funny cartoon (needs Flash™, and so...
06 May 2004: I shall say more about this tomorrow, but don't h...
06 May 2004: The BBC's just repeated the first ever episode of...
06 May 2004: Strange Italian weather forecast news. ...
05 May 2004: RIP Max, the crime-fighting gorilla. "The first t...
03 May 2004: It's that duckling time of year again. ...
29 Apr 2004: Put a variety of newfound miscreants into the gal...
28 Apr 2004: The Moggy Horde's Silly Sleeping Pose Olympics. A...
28 Apr 2004: Sorry, but it's time for even more about ID cards...
28 Apr 2004: When muggings go wrong: Robbers Die Trying to Hol...
28 Apr 2004: Hairy sheep news. A very hairy sheep. ...
26 Apr 2004: While the hellhole that is Luton is being attacke...
26 Apr 2004: David Blunkett was interviewed today on 'Today' a...
26 Apr 2004: Close-ups of a bee on a dandelion, which I took w...
25 Apr 2004: Scott Burgess notes that the 'Guardian' has expan...
25 Apr 2004: Interesting post over at Black Triangle about the...
23 Apr 2004: Wanderings with my camera today: ...
21 Apr 2004: The signs that the end of the world is nigh repor...
21 Apr 2004: High-speed photographs by Andrew Davidhazy, with ...
21 Apr 2004: I was bored.So I drew a self portrait.There you g...
18 Apr 2004: Ben Jones drew 100 rocketships, and also draws co...
18 Apr 2004: I've updated the gallery with North Korea and the...
18 Apr 2004: More photos from the day I shot the swan (in a ma...
17 Apr 2004: Less than a month after filling the newly vacant ...
16 Apr 2004: If anyone has a desert camouflage kilt they can s...
16 Apr 2004: I, also, am exceptionally tired at this particula...
16 Apr 2004: Just as the weather's getting better and people m...
14 Apr 2004: Dr Caroline Lucas MEP (Green, South-East England)...
13 Apr 2004: You know how the BBC acts as a bulwark against th...
13 Apr 2004: Is Mo Mowlam as crazy as a bag of ferrets? [Forme...
13 Apr 2004: Don't worry, I've not been abducted by aliens. I ...
08 Apr 2004: I've just been to give blood but they don't want ...
07 Apr 2004: Just how badly can you mess up buying some helico...
07 Apr 2004: Iran agrees to nuclear timetable. I think that's ...
06 Apr 2004: Alanis Morissette, who is unclear about the meani...
05 Apr 2004: Oh, well this is just super. Grumble mutter mutte...
05 Apr 2004: Just what is it about railways at the moment? Fir...
05 Apr 2004: Finally, an end to ear cleaning misery! Link via ...
04 Apr 2004: It's good to see that Black Triangle has returned...
04 Apr 2004: Quiz time part 2: Are You Damned? I, apparently, ...
04 Apr 2004: Quiz time: what revolution are you? I am the Comp...
04 Apr 2004: The US National Peanut Board brings you peanut re...
03 Apr 2004: While I was strangely unmoved by the dogs in the ...
03 Apr 2004: Finally updated the gallery with demonstrators fr...
02 Apr 2004: Wanderings with my camera today: ...
01 Apr 2004: The world's biggest diesel engine. Really big: It...
01 Apr 2004: Random photographs: ...
31 Mar 2004: Suicide car bombing makes a tentative arrival in ...
30 Mar 2004: Mwuah-hahahahaha, excellent! The European Union f...
29 Mar 2004: Want to get rich by suing somebody, but haven't h...
29 Mar 2004: Signs that the end of the world is nigh: Allah th...
28 Mar 2004: An International Catalogue of Superheroes. From t...
27 Mar 2004: Although "The Beaker People" may sound like prota...
26 Mar 2004: George Bush pokes fun at himself about inability ...
26 Mar 2004: Good news: the four-eared kitten has found a home...
25 Mar 2004: The attempted assassination of the Taiwanese pres...
25 Mar 2004: In a great example of what I believe is called "j...
25 Mar 2004: Cats' ears are super, so four ears must be twice ...
25 Mar 2004: What I always do in this sort of situation is ask...
23 Mar 2004: Julie Burchill has apologised to Litigious George...
23 Mar 2004: Robert Fisk, the Independent's award-winning and ...
23 Mar 2004: After campaigning vigourously to prevent old ship...
23 Mar 2004: Outraged by the loss of their dear leader, Hamas ...
22 Mar 2004: Does anybody else notice a similarity between the...
20 Mar 2004: Tens of thousands of demonstrators today called f...
20 Mar 2004: New entry to the gallery today: no lesser figure ...
18 Mar 2004: I just got a spam with the following marvellous s...
18 Mar 2004: "Police said the man appeared delusional". No, re...
17 Mar 2004: Some good photographs of freshwater microbes. ...
17 Mar 2004: Marvel at Marcel's beer mat collection. Gosh. ...
15 Mar 2004: I still can't find the offending article online a...
15 Mar 2004: Automotive news update: The stowaway monkey, the ...
14 Mar 2004: George Galloway (normally such a brave defender o...
14 Mar 2004: Britain is stuck in a smoking timewarp. Cool. Tha...
13 Mar 2004: Some beautiful pictures, mostly courtesy of elect...
13 Mar 2004: Classic movie scripts: "Scripts and Transcripts t...
12 Mar 2004: Since what I wrote earlier there's more conspirac...
12 Mar 2004: New entry to the gallery today: no lesser figure ...
12 Mar 2004: Now that it's the day after bombs in Madrid kill ...
11 Mar 2004: A strange tale about Carlos "the Jackal", who is ...
08 Mar 2004: From today's Guardian letters page: [Tony Blair's...
06 Mar 2004: Explore the Human brain with Harvard's whole brai...
05 Mar 2004: Firstly, an explanation for overseas readers of w...
05 Mar 2004: Robot news: Prototype exoskeleton demonstrated. H...
05 Mar 2004: I'd always thought New Mexico was a big flat dese...
05 Mar 2004: Are you tired of having sand kicked in your face?...
04 Mar 2004: The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric, as employ...
04 Mar 2004: Dr Toast's Amazing World of Toast. ...
03 Mar 2004: Natalie Solent thinks I've been too kind to the B...
02 Mar 2004: Probing journalistic insight of the Nigerian poli...
02 Mar 2004: George Monbiot tries his hand at rabble-rousing i...
01 Mar 2004: Where San Fransisco leads, Saudi Arabia tries to ...
01 Mar 2004: Is there something in the air at the moment? Sudd...
01 Mar 2004: Are you tired? ...
27 Feb 2004: RIP Black Triangle. ...
27 Feb 2004: Today is National Doodle Day. Thanks to Natalie S...
26 Feb 2004: New entries to the gallery today, including none ...
26 Feb 2004: With the benefit of just ten months of hindsight ...
25 Feb 2004: Some nice goats' cheese rounded off dinner tonigh...
24 Feb 2004: Subterranea Britannica: devoted to the study and ...
24 Feb 2004: My oh my, look what somebody's found down the bac...
23 Feb 2004: And I thought the MMR vaccine health scare was ba...
23 Feb 2004: I'm a sucker for kittens (cats in general, but ki...
23 Feb 2004: Some very good photography here. ...
22 Feb 2004: The Astounding B Monster cult movie resource. ...
22 Feb 2004: Random conspiracy theory generator. It produces g...
22 Feb 2004: New entries to the gallery today, including none ...
22 Feb 2004: Mugabe suffers chest pains. Nothing trivial, I ho...
19 Feb 2004: News roundup: Well done that man! But shame on hi...
18 Feb 2004: Finding them repulsive but curiously fasciniating...
17 Feb 2004: George news roundup: Citing creative differences,...
17 Feb 2004: As part of an ongoing series, more allegations ha...
17 Feb 2004: Mammal news roundup: It's been a busy few days fo...
17 Feb 2004: George Galloway's new party has launched a web si...
17 Feb 2004: More hand grenade recklessness: As for the hand g...
16 Feb 2004: *sigh*. 17 year old killed in "mysterious blast" ...
14 Feb 2004: Hidden Mysteries Book Store: your source for all ...
14 Feb 2004: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Gosh. ...
14 Feb 2004: Assorted Dr Who links: Dr Who Cuttings Archive, c...
14 Feb 2004: I find it hard to believe that no Jedi have writt...
13 Feb 2004: Oh, here's a surprise: Iran has a lively interest...
13 Feb 2004: Well finally I get round to mentioning what I did...
11 Feb 2004: I've just got back in from my time in Scotland, w...
05 Feb 2004: There'll be no updates here until at least the mi...
05 Feb 2004: Northumberland Photo Of The Week is sort of like ...
04 Feb 2004: George's personal pavilion of practical polyhedra...
04 Feb 2004: Tranquility shattered by exploding toilet. Fortun...
04 Feb 2004: Beeping gadget spawns new generation of beeping g...
03 Feb 2004: Hey, what are you doing reading this? Don't you k...
03 Feb 2004: This is insane. Another report here. ...
03 Feb 2004: Although building your own DIY compression chambe...
03 Feb 2004: The Exploratrium can provide you with most of you...
02 Feb 2004: Woohoo! Spirit has been repaired and is ready to ...
02 Feb 2004: This is depressing: Britons are incompetent and c...
01 Feb 2004: Flying Pig can supply an animated cardboard model...
01 Feb 2004: If you don't know the airspeed velocity of an unl...
01 Feb 2004: Garfield sucks: There's nothing funny about Garfi...
31 Jan 2004: I'd been saving up a set of links to assorted mus...
29 Jan 2004: They've just interviewed George Soros on BBC2's '...
29 Jan 2004: Sorry to return to this subject, but why is the B...
29 Jan 2004: If you're ever in Shanghai, make sure you look wh...
28 Jan 2004: And who, my preciousssssss, did Saddam have in hi...
28 Jan 2004: It snowed last night, which is the first snow we'...
27 Jan 2004: Christ, ITV have really scraped the D-List to com...
27 Jan 2004: I think I have identified the section of voters t...
27 Jan 2004: The North Korean Central News Agency certainly kn...
27 Jan 2004: "43% of jurors fail to grasp details " says the h...
26 Jan 2004: Laugh - it's funny. The "great movement" being le...
24 Jan 2004: It looks like the Spirit probe on Mars can be rep...
24 Jan 2004: This is absolutely inspired: The Brick Testament,...
24 Jan 2004: A few good links: Synthstuff. Strike One lightnin...
23 Jan 2004: This is a difficult call - is Jenny Tonge an acti...
22 Jan 2004: Who would have imagined that the simple question ...
22 Jan 2004: I can't let this pass without comment: the RAF is...
22 Jan 2004: There is skullduggery afoot in the House of Saud....
21 Jan 2004: Correction to previous post: France has not banne...
21 Jan 2004: Having banned people from booing the national ant...
21 Jan 2004: More from the Mars probe at Astronomy Picture of ...
20 Jan 2004: When wheelie bins attack! ...
20 Jan 2004: In Finland, hardly anything slips past the keen-e...
19 Jan 2004: More from the Mars probe at Astronomy Picture of ...
19 Jan 2004: Well I never: taking brain-scrambling drugs might...
19 Jan 2004: How odd: EU officials are banning air passengers ...
18 Jan 2004: Good news! I just got a phone call from Tom sayin...
17 Jan 2004: (Warning: contains pictures of naked people) - Na...
16 Jan 2004: A prison guard sacked last year for insulting tha...
16 Jan 2004: More Mars probe goodness from Astronomy Picture o...
16 Jan 2004: "Where's my sense of humour?" asks Madeleine Bunt...
15 Jan 2004: Lost Daleks come home. ...
15 Jan 2004: Everybody should have some ambition. "I always wa...
14 Jan 2004: I half expect tomorrow's Guardian letters to cont...
14 Jan 2004: Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a Mars pa...
14 Jan 2004: Oooh! Oooh! Following from my earlier comments, I...
14 Jan 2004: So, Iran is still acquiring machinery to enrich u...
13 Jan 2004: The government proposes to create a fund to compe...
13 Jan 2004: I have bad news: Pootle the tiny but sometimes ov...
12 Jan 2004: The tacky postcard archive. And Julie's tacky tre...
12 Jan 2004: More from wanderings with my camera on Saturday: ...
12 Jan 2004: Some paragliding photos, including their best of ...
12 Jan 2004: Cat pictures from the dark side: cats painted in ...
12 Jan 2004: Faisal Bodi* writes in today's Guardian that Robe...
11 Jan 2004: More gratuitously cute kittens than you can shake...
10 Jan 2004: Wanderings with my camera today: ...
10 Jan 2004: He asks, I answer. Note these are not the films I...
09 Jan 2004: A man from Leeds has grabbed the world record the...
08 Jan 2004: Praise and criticism: Tim Newman says he likes my...
08 Jan 2004: Uh-huh-huh - Happy 69th birthday, Elvis... wherev...
07 Jan 2004: Bechtel is awarded a contract in Iraq and the BBC...
07 Jan 2004: Martin Bove writes in the Guardian's letters page...
06 Jan 2004: Uh-huh-huh, it's the Elvis sighting bulletin boar...
06 Jan 2004: Syrian President Assad's latest diplomatic overtu...
06 Jan 2004: Well I never: a study has shown that psychiatric ...
05 Jan 2004: In a ceremony in Baghdad, Ken The Human Shield is...
05 Jan 2004: Assorted mushroom-related trivia: A mushroom gall...
05 Jan 2004: Assorted trivia: Internet pioneer seen wearing ve...
03 Jan 2004: Shock and horror as US soldiers plunder, desecrat...
03 Jan 2004: Oliver Kamm came across someone calling themselve...
03 Jan 2004: Having myself pontificated about the need for oth...
03 Jan 2004: So our little blue planet in space (possibly the ...
29 Dec 2003: I had a look around Gateshead's new art gallery i...
29 Dec 2003: RIP Bob Monkhouse, who has departed for the great...
28 Dec 2003: I missed this good news when it happened. Good ne...
28 Dec 2003: Hunting for a poem? Try Poem Hunter. ...
28 Dec 2003: Gosh. Build dams: get attacked by piranha fish, a...
25 Dec 2003: And so the family Hinkley gathers in the ancestra...
23Dec 2003: UK mobile users can now get daily text messages f...
23Dec 2003: It's a turkey shoot! ...
23Dec 2003: I like cats, but even I will acknowledge that som...
22 Dec 2003: Fantastic motorbike riding game. ...
22 Dec 2003: Oh no: GI in despot-punching war crime atrocity s...
19 Dec 2003: About bloody time: the hazardous doctor famed for...
19 Dec 2003: Announcing a slight update to the structure of th...
18 Dec 2003: I saw "Lord Of The Rings" last night and I though...
18 Dec 2003: Crazed animal rights group sinks to level of tast...
18 Dec 2003: Take a tour of the medieval Newcastle quayside, o...
18 Dec 2003: Gah! Someone - a very senior policeman I think - ...
17 Dec 2003: I got not one, not two, but three 419 spams today...
17 Dec 2003.: The Owl Pages (all about owls). ...
16 Dec 2003.: Who came out with this hawkish rhetoric of the re...
16 Dec 2003.: Oh, lordy, Type 4 whining direct from the Vatican...
14 Dec 2003.: Hey, look what someone found under a rock. Saddam...
12 Dec 2003.: Further to what I said here, I got e-mail back fr...
12 Dec 2003.: Neil Kingsnorth of CND asks: So the defence secre...
09 Dec 2003.: Yet more proof that NASA faked the moon landings....
09 Dec 2003.: More coming soon on Noam Chomsky's denial he ever...
09 Dec 2003.: Many thanks to Scott Burgess of the Daily Ablutio...
06 Dec 2003.: The Guide to Wacky Court Cases (thanks, Michael!)...
06 Dec 2003.: Impressive picture of a cloud which probably spar...
06 Dec 2003.: Clay pigeon shooting is old and boring. Clay kitt...
04 Dec 2003.: Create your very own Picasso picture with Mr Pica...
04 Dec 2003.: In the Independent Noam Chomsky is asked "Where i...
04 Dec 2003.: Ah-ha! Another example of those American multinat...
04 Dec 2003.: Tale of technical woe, as the panto's due to star...
03 Dec 2003.: Java applet goodness: Spinning coloured balls. Dr...
02 Dec 2003.: Awwwh: gratuitous kitten photography. ...
02 Dec 2003.: Ah, there's nothing quite as entertaining as a mo...
01 Dec 2003.: The government's Big Conversation seems to have i...
01 Dec 2003.: God, this is depressing. The nursery school teach...
29 Nov 2003.: Dinner was nice, and ever so quick to make. Chill...
28 Nov 2003.: The British government's "Big Conversation" today...
28 Nov 2003.: There is outrage, and a minister is accused of in...
27 Nov 2003.: A man who ate someone he met on a website for can...
27 Nov 2003.: Gosh. Some people have all the best toys: These g...
27 Nov 2003.: Hooray: my CD burner's arrived. Yeah, I thought y...
26 Nov 2003.: A pretentious idiot promising contemporary perfor...
26 Nov 2003.: When Parasites Attack! ...
26 Nov 2003.: A very good Flash animation song video. This is l...
20 Nov 2003.: The previously unheard of protest group PADAB (Po...
18 Nov 2003.: There was alarm and concern in the City yesterday...
18 Nov 2003.: Even more controversially, Rumsfeld later branded...
18 Nov 2003.: Good name for a rock band or concept album: The M...
18 Nov 2003.: Full text of Harold Pinter's open letter to presi...
18 Nov 2003.: "Silent majority" news. While veteran protestor g...
17 Nov 2003.: Oppressed proletariat: throw off your chains as y...
17 Nov 2003.: Oh wow, a talking Donald Rumsfeld action figure. ...
13 Nov 2003.: So there you are, wanting to see "a world based o...
13 Nov 2003.: A war memorial in Cambridge was defaced on Tuesda...
11 Nov 2003.: La la la, la la la la la... A pot says it is "hor...
09 Nov 2003.: I've just been watching a documentary on Channel ...
08 Nov 2003.: Tariq Ali has replied about the source for his Ir...
05 Nov 2003.: Pure comic gold: Saudi Arabia fears a shortage of...
04 Nov 2003.: Gothic horror in the kitchen: A former leading me...
04 Nov 2003.: Famous Belgians! ...
04 Nov 2003.: Further to my comments on the 29th, Dave e-mailed...
04 Nov 2003.: I e-mailed Tariq Ali yesterday asking him what hi...
03 Nov 2003.: Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy...
03 Nov 2003.: Tariq Ali's in fine form in today's 'Guardian'. I...
02 Nov 2003.: It looks like the Great Driverless Car Race has r...
02 Nov 2003.: "This exhibition certainly has the opportunity to...
02 Nov 2003.: Rush hour rail chaos caused by mobile phone toile...
30 Oct 2003.: Bad Movies dot org: devoted to bad cinema. "Just ...
30 Oct 2003.: Many people seem to be outraged that George Bush ...
29 Oct 2003.: Posting seems to have taken a turn toward the ser...
29 Oct 2003.: Two thoughts and a small dose of spleen about the...
29 Oct 2003.: Following from yesterday's post, this post about ...
28 Oct 2003.: Jacques Chirac fails to deny a shift of French nu...
27 Oct 2003.: Wanderings with my camera. Heads carved on cathed...
24 Oct 2003.: I don't know about you, but I will sleep more sou...
21 Oct 2003.: Postings seem to have been very serious of late, ...
21 Oct 2003.: Oh no, Chinese people found working in Kings Lynn...
19 Oct 2003.: Oh dear, Dominique de Villepin's on BBC1 right no...
19 Oct 2003.: I found a full transcript of that speech Mahatir ...
18 Oct 2003.: Oh look, another audio message from someone sound...
16 Oct 2003.: Just as I was thinking "it's about time for news ...
16 Oct 2003.: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reckons...
15 Oct 2003.: Just found this: Anti-war activists including the...
13 Oct 2003.: Don't let anyone say that the staff of Antarctic ...
13 Oct 2003.: Oh wow (again): thought-controlled robot arms! Po...
13 Oct 2003.: Oh wow: laser-powered aeroplanes! ...
08 Oct 2003.: A Which Muppet are you? quiz. Another Which Muppe...
08 Oct 2003.: A study in internet discussion board social stere...
08 Oct 2003.: When Dustbins Attack. ...
06 Oct 2003.: Hmmm. This analysis by Barbara Plett, BBC corresp...
06 Oct 2003.: Laugh-a-minute official news bulletins from North...
06 Oct 2003.: When Pets Attack. ...
06 Oct 2003.: When Meteorites Attack. ...
01 Oct 2003.: Musicians have long sought inspiration by ingesti...
01 Oct 2003.: The Society For Research Into The Bleeding Obviou...
30 Sept 2003.: Against all precedent, common sense has broken ou...
28 Sept 2003.: Some people build model railways in their spare t...
28 Sept 2003.: Strange and faintly disturbing things happen when...
26 Sept 2003.: On the eve of tomorrow's "Make Iraq Descend Into ...
26 Sept 2003.: Oh my how original, "Most Wanted" playing cards t...
25 Sept 2003.: Oh dear oh dear oh dear, those cheeky Iranians ha...
25 Sept 2003.: "No need for EU bureaucrats to resign over EU bur...
23 Sept 2003.: Following on from the discovery of weapons-grade ...
23 Sept 2003.: Fergal Parkinson, who wrote about Faith Fippinger...
23 Sept 2003.: Birdstrike... innnnn... spaaaaaace, as an orbitin...
22 Sept 2003.: Remember to always check what those cool-looking ...
22 Sept 2003.: NB: This is related to a posting by Steven DenBes...
20 Sept 2003.: Molecules with silly or unusual names, from Arsol...
20 Sept 2003.: Aboriginal painting gallery. And another one. ...
18 Sept 2003.: Hooray, the UK has just outlawed spamming. For al...
17 Sept 2003.: Link frenzy: The MIT Leg Laboratory, where robots...
17 Sept 2003.: An open hole and half a house is all that is left...
17 Sept 2003.: Software development humour. ...
17 Sept 2003.: Remember, Friday is Talk Like A Pirate Day (arrrr...
16 Sept 2003.: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Angle Grind...
13 Sept 2003.: I've just been looking through this site's server...
13 Sept 2003.: Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Charac...
11 Sept 2003.: I had a hunt through my old mail archives and pul...
11 Sept 2003.: I include these just as I'm sure that if I'd been...
08 Sept 2003.: After saying that compulsory ID cards will make u...
05 Sept 2003.: Remember this, dear readers: when men turn up wea...
04 Sept 2003.: Using lasers to provoke nuclear reactions and tra...
03 Sept 2003.: Senior policeman in "wants more powers and flashy...
03 Sept 2003.: Well fancy that: a man who stuck a firework betwe...
03 Sept 2003.: Beer guts may be related to beer drinking, an ast...
02 Sept 2003.: I just want to make it very clear that this guy i...
01 Sept 2003.: Martin Asser has been a busy journalist this past...
01 Sept 2003.: If you're writing C or C++ code and start getting...
31 Aug 2003.: Ow, my legs hurt. I spent yesterday playing paint...
28 Aug 2003.: Applet fun: Zombies chase panicking humans, and a...
28 Aug 2003.: MSNBC's Jennifer Carlile knows something I don't:...
28 Aug 2003.: The Great Driverless Car Race is a lot like the G...
28 Aug 2003.: ITV are showing repeats of the cheating episode o...
27 Aug 2003.: An Iranian nuclear bomb program? Surely not! [cla...
27 Aug 2003.: Man decapitated in ghastly lift accident. Inciden...
27 Aug 2003.: When normal electron microscopes just aren't good...
27 Aug 2003.: Powered robot exoskeletons will be in the shops i...
27 Aug 2003.: Do indigestible fat substitutes really cause, erm...
24 Aug 2003.: It isn't only loons on the fringe who have 'astou...
24 Aug 2003.: Oh bravo, 'peace activists': defend that pacifist...
22 Aug 2003.: I've long suspected that silly lawsuits arrive vi...
21 Aug 2003.: Idiots. And I thought it was bad enough when cret...
21 Aug 2003.: Peter Kennedy makes a point I hadn't considered, ...
19 Aug 2003.: Oh. My. God. Presumably scared to death of being ...
19 Aug 2003.: Shock! Horror! Teenager paints ethnic motifs. Som...
19 Aug 2003.: A Moon Colony within 20 years? That's nothing. Th...
19 Aug 2003.: Woohoo! Humans could be living in a Moon Colony w...
18 Aug 2003.: It is proposed that schools ought to be weighing ...
15 Aug 2003.: Flash mobs: great or tedious? At least part of me...
15 Aug 2003.: Oh that's okay Mr 4x4 monster truck driver: you j...
14 Aug 2003.: Gun to be tested at a firing range, of all places...
14 Aug 2003.: Congratulations to Matthew, son of my friends And...
14 Aug 2003.: Good news for the balance of trade! The Americans...
12 Aug 2003.: Airport security shock: knives can be smuggled pa...
12 Aug 2003.: "'ello 'ello 'ello. Is that your railway bridge, ...
12 Aug 2003.: We just don't know enough about the perils of Ext...
10 Aug 2003.: The sun has worked its photosynthetic magic on th...
10 Aug 2003.: Oh wow. Just $39.99 buys you your very own limite...
09 Aug 2003.: Grrrr, spam SMS messages. We hates spammers, hate...
09 Aug 2003.: Steven DenBeste has a good take on John Patterson...
08 Aug 2003.: On a brighter note, I got e-mail from Hannah Baym...
08 Aug 2003.: If you can't have a big party to celebrate a brut...
07 Aug 2003.: When the Beatles meet Metallica we get... Beatall...
06 Aug 2003.: There was a major kitten incident at the flat thi...
05 Aug 2003.: Man and rodent in perfect harmony: there are plan...
04 Aug 2003.: Oh splendid. Following hot on the heels of David ...
04 Aug 2003.: Great publicity, shame about the show: "It wasn't...
01 Aug 2003.: The kittens in the flat where I'm living at the m...
01 Aug 2003.: People who study sciences, engineering and medica...
01 Aug 2003.: I honestly don't mean to keep going on about bad ...
31 July 2003.: Is there anything at all in this story to justify...
29 June 2003.: As the hunt for mushrooms and blueberries begins ...
22 June 2003.: Well well gentle readers, a lot has happened sinc...
27 May 2003.: The International Olympic Committee wants to excl...
12 May 2003.: Long time no post, but look here: I'm famous! I s...
22 Apr 2003.: George Galloway responds to allegations that he w...
17 Apr 2003.: I am in web browser user interface hell. Being th...
17 Apr 2003.: Oh marvellous. Anxious parents can now stifle the...
12 Apr 2003.: Marina Hyde denies that pundits were forecasting ...
11 Apr 2003.: Stephen Kirkby writes to the Guardian wanting to ...
09 Apr 2003.: Well well, it's been quite a day. Cheering Iraqis...
08 Apr 2003.: George Monbiot is grumbling about the Americans a...
03 Apr 2003.: Arundathi Roy wrote an extensive screed in Wednes...
01 Apr 2003.: A First World War war cemetery in France is defac...
01 Apr 2003.: Erik Sorenson of MSNBC comes out with what may be...
31 Mar 2003.: When Michael Moore gave his Oscar speech he was c...
28 Mar 2003.: Gah! I've just watched Gary Younge spend 15 minut...
28 Mar 2003.: I've taken the "Are you a sad Sci-Fi fan?&qu...
25 Mar 2003.: I feel I ought to say something about the war, se...
19 Mar 2003.: It seems there's quite a little wiretap frenzy go...
18 Mar 2003.: At the moment I am mainly waiting nervously for t...
17 Mar 2003.: Speaking about the death of the protester who was...
16 Mar 2003.: It had to happen sooner or later: a "peace p...
16 Mar 2003.: I was going to comment on Le Monde correspondent ...
16 Mar 2003.: The wife of Abdullah El-Faisal, recently jailed f...
16 Mar 2003.: The bag of potatoes I bought today carried just t...
15 Mar 2003.: Sophisticated European types have been sniggering...
12 Mar 2003.: An amazing new study has revealed what nobody wou...
10 Mar 2003.: Apparently, according to the BMA, the Internation...
05 Mar 2003.: It's officially springtime now: the daffodils out...
26 Feb 2003.: Someone wrote in to this evening's 'PM' program s...
24 Feb 2003.: Saw this sign in Winchester at the weekend, which...
16 Feb 2003.: Oh, lordy, is my finger not on the pulse of popul...
Jan 2003.: I seem to be listening to a lot of Elvis at the m...
Dec 2002.: Got an Espion digicam from my brother for Christm...
Dec 2002.: The nominations are open for the Today programme'...
Dec 2002.: The original UK Home Office "Entitlement Card" (c...

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