January 2009
39 posts
Jewish Jokers. →
Old Jews telling jokes.
“Added the president, “For the love of Crom, am I the only one here who...”
– Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To ‘Savage Sword Of Conan’ #24 | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Ooh, space.
made some hourly comics here you go the dead... →
made some hourly comics here you go the dead science - death duel productions
Unitasker Wednesday: Japanese face slimmer →
All Unitasker Wednesday posts are jokes — we don’t want you to buy these items, we want you to laugh at their ridiculousness. Enjoy!
Have you always wanted to wear a hockey mask for hours a…
Blueful, a short story scattered across the web →
trust me and just follow the links [via]
I can’t work out if ‘Murder in the City’ by the Avett Brothers is deadly serious or not.
DVICE: Battlestar Galactica in LEGO: world's... →
How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese... →
Book — £14.68
Soul Stirrers #7 →
Percy Sledge
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross →
Ace Hardcover (2008), Hardcover, 336 pages
To the end of To The End Of The Line →
A month or so before Christmas I bought a book called The Romance Of London’s Underground. I found it in a second-hand bookshop in Buckinghamshire. I think it was published in the early 1930s; there…
The Night Sessions: A Novel →
Book — £10.82
The Youth Ball Welcomes Obama with a Sea of... →
This is an amazing picture taken by Kate Heffernan at the Youth Ball on Inauguration Day. Spotted on Gizmodo.
These people are all looking at LCD screens instead of the new…
Boxxy and Boxee →
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What about Boxey?
Ok. Boxxy, Boxee, Boxxy, Boxee, Boxxy, Boxee, Boxxy, Boxee, Boxxy. Ok? Tags: boxxy boxee
Great New Casting For Scott Pilgrim [Scott... →
The cast of Edgar (Shawn Of The Dead) Wright’s adaptation of comic Scott Pilgrim continues to grow, and the most recent additions are worrying pieces of almost-perfect casting. Chris Evans as…
Hydro-Manhattan →
[Image: From Manhattan’s Annex by W. Amanda Chin. View larger]. There are a few student projects from my trip the other week to Rice University that I’m going to be posting here over…
Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir of Men and... →
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (2001), Paperback, 320 pages
The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett →
Prime Books (2008), Paperback, 224 pages
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was looking up tony hart stuff yesterday for an idea i had, so bit of a strange and sad start to sunday..
Patrick McGoohan *and* Ricardo Montalban? I hate you already, 2009.
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rocketstrikes.iamnear.net →
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Look at this, it’s good.
mattb: second world war london bombing, geocoded. an eye-opener for modern londoners.
(2009-01-12 14:53)
The Circle Line →
How to write about a line that doesn’t exist, but whose stations you have - to a man - nonetheless visited?
(Clockwise: Tower Hill-Westminster; St James’s Park-Gloucester Road; High Street…
AND LO, there was PIZZA, where once there was no PIZZA.
"One time at camp..." What? →
“One time at camp…” What joke am I missing?
I’m going to teach at an adult music camp. When people hear this, they say, “One time at camp…” and start chortling. What are they referring to? Is…
Today, I am King of the one-line code fix.
I bet keeping Twibble on all the time is going to murder my N95’s battery.
The Holy Machine →
Book — £7.85
Iterating Towards Bethlehem →
Most of you probably know about Turing machines: hypothetical gizmos built of paper punch-tape, read-write heads, and imagination, which can — step by laborious step — emulate the operation of any…
London's Lexicon #115 →
Spotted at Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. No break dancing by sarah_is_looking. Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.
Tumbarumba, short-fiction anthology as a Firefox... →
the screencast explains how the plugin subtly changes the pages you read [via]
Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure by... →
Del Rey (2008), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 224 pages
Incandescence by Greg Egan →
Night Shade Books (2008), Hardcover, 256 pages
Stay (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) →
Book — £4.63