Archive for December, 2009


12/18
2009

The Living Channel has a history of putting pseudoscientific rubbish on television. Many of us will know Most Haunted a television programme where they bring a group of emotional idiots together, tell them a ghost story and then stick them in an old building at night. The programme then goes through the laborious routine of [...]


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12/18
2009

This week I have mostly been enjoying LukeSurl.com


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12/16
2009

I have a confession to make to my footballing friends, I am slowly starting to like the Arsenal manager Arsene Wegner. He will always be a terrible loser, blind when it comes to his players’ misgivings and part of the ever increasing foreign influence on our football league but these are things to be discussed round a wooden table [...]


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12/15
2009

Along with all the other bloggers you to can help beat Trafigura’s gag on the BBC by posting the following youtube videos on your blog. And here is a link to a pdf of the original article. I suggest you read more about all this on Richard Wilson’s fantastic blog.


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12/11
2009

Not so much of a cartoon as more of a comedic graph this week. thisisindexed and it’s fantastic! Alcohol amplifies the effect. Fortunately I am still very much in the A catagory.


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12/10
2009

After reading @roachmeister’s latest blog post about health and safety I wanted to add my comments specifically about this article by Jeremy Clarkson in the Times. Clarkson really is a clueless twat when it comes to these issues, rather than a considered article about when health and safety is poorly implemented he prefers to give a [...]


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12/7
2009

As if it isn’t hard enough to figure out what festively themed novelty toy to purchase for your ever expanding collection of gaudy Christmas related paraphernalia some crazy people have to go kicking up a fuss because according to The Sun and The Guardian  ‘Jingle Bells’ when sung by a toy mouse sounds a bit like [...]


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12/4
2009

This week’s comic was suggested by a vagrant who occasionally joins me for a drink in the pub. Between drinking and hanging around street corners he’s also started writing on his blog again and it’s rather good so go take a look. Cyanide and Happiness


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12/1
2009

I came across an interesting blog post over at The Lay Scientist last week which discussed a paper written in 2002 that looked at search results from the leading search engines of the day when you typed in ‘vaccinations’. It found that on Google of the first 10 websites that came up 100% were anti-vaccination promoting sites. [...]


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