Category: Misc

The government’s much vaunted document is now available to download from the tamely named “Preparing For Emergencies” website. Helpfully it’s available as a PDF which won’t easily print on A4. Still, the best part is the BBC’s chosen graphic to indicate how we ought to put aside tinned food.

O’Reilly madness (Via Gia) Very clever (Via Onlineblog) I made one of these the other day, and it only cost me 30p in parts! The American one featured cost $1.50, so the UK isn’t always more expensive!

The other week I happened to notice in a moment of idle curiosity that the National Statistics service has an RSS feed. So I chucked it in my reader and every so often actually look at what it’s outputting. Then you see something like this! This is a fragile planet, and we only have the…

Not the hiking based hobby, but my last few entries. To make amends, here are some “news in brief” items: Rupert Murdoch featuring in Doonsbury this week (may need free registration to see). Salon interview with Alan Moore (daypass required to read). The shock news that the TV digital switchover has already been put back…

I’m just spending my lunchtime flicking through FT Creative Business (you need a subscription to read it!), and there are a few thoughtful articles. * An interview with Radio 3 controller Roger Wright. Sadly this is a bit on the defensive since the usual mentions of not enough classical music on the station and too…

OK – I don’t want to sound like an old fogey, but what the hell is it with the phrase “My Bad”? I can honestly say that I’ve not heard it spoken anywhere, just read it. Usually when people are apologising for getting something wrong or not explaining something properly. It makes no sense! Stop…

Also via Boingboing comes this link to a site that has an excerpt from Ricky Jay’s infamously out of print book, Cards As Weapons (as featured in an episode of Jonathan Creek – something which probably keeps it rare).

Well today the BBC announced that the new Radio 4 series of Hitchhikers is coming to a radio near you from Tuesday 21 September at 6.30pm – a very specific time for something just a little way away. Still the site has both a video and audio preview! Meanwhile, there’s a competition to win a…

Carefully sidestepping any mention of last night’s football, I just wanted to sound off on something that is so trivial and so insignificant, that it shouldn’t matter to anyone. I’m talking about people who leave the stickers on their digital cameras and camcorders. Why? These are those little stickers that shout about the number of…

A story that I can empathise with enormously in today’s Guardian. I hate all the chatting that people think they can get away with in the cinema – and also put it down to the advent of videos and watching films in home. Simon Busch, the author of the story, says that the protagonist in…

Must get my copies.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow sounds fascinating….