Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Choose your favourite



Opening titles from every Doctor Who.

Together again



Remember that scene on the left? From the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge last year? The guy who fell over his shoelaces and smashed the expensive vases?

They're mended.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Spied


iPhone shmyphone. Here's a camcorder that's only the size of your finger.

Top tips


Lifehacker - making things easier. In fact, making pretty much everything easier.

Sing it with me

Here's the story of the 31-year old woman from Syracuse who's suing her dentist. She claims that she was injured during surgery because the dentist was dancing to Car Wash on the radio whilst drilling her tooth.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Book bloggery



And now, John's blog sends you to a book about blogs about books.

Way way back



The Guardian's digital archive has launched - with newspapers from over 150 years, fully searchable. It's going to cost a hefty thwack to subscribe, but for November, you can get on there for free. Just so that you're hooked.

Stuffed down the back of the sofa

Baroque in my couch

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Pubs

Two pubs recently recommended with passion (although not by me): The Bell at Sapperton, whose website is here and whose Cotswolds location round about here...



And in Winchester (you know where that is), the Wykeham Arms.

28 miles off Land's End



The world's smallest radio station. Total population in the area served? 2,100.

I bet you think this song is about you

Women in Liverpool check their appearance 71 times a day - topping the league for female vanity. That's a lorra lorra looking.

In Bristol, it's only 8 times a day.



As a general rule, your average lady looks at themselves twice as often as your average chap.



(Survey from Transformulas.)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Easy



This would be your special chair, and you'd end up feeling a bit like Frasier's dad. But special it would be.

Straight from California

Feel like the West Coast, with the Los Angeles Times.

To the rescue

You can't see the pictures online, sadly, but Dan Dare's back. Which has to be good news. Daring, but in a clever sort of way.

Monday, November 5, 2007

Punch with style

The El Casco range of desk accessories from the Conran Shop.


Gadgety

Now this is what I call a TV show - just returned to Channel 5, and now twice as long.

Mother nature on the run

Neil Young converts his '59 Lincoln to a hybrid and drives it across America.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

WWTC



And now, some proper literary commentary. Click on any of the items down the right-hand side, read 'em, and weep.

The world needs apostrophes


Now this is what we want. A book to teach children proper punctuation. Go, Lynne.

A snip


A lock of Che Guevara's hair - just £50k. Bargain.