Stuff v.3

So! Haven't been here a while; almost a year, in fact. No real reason - life happened (there was this and this and many other thing...

I am a Word Shoot champion!

One day I'll stop raving about Amy Winehouse... but today is not that day. 'Teach me tonight' is one of my all-time favourite s...

I'm a huge fan of Slate 's Explainer section , which provides answers to all kinds of random and bizarre questions, as well as the s...

Article at TechCrunch about the new Facebook Platform, that gives third-party developers access to the facebook API so that their applicat...

Very exciting discovery on youtube! Unseen Doctor Who! Just after the regeneration! Hooray! (yes, I'm obsessed.)

My obsession with everything Amy Winehouse continues! I bought her latest CD on the weekend, Back to Black, and have been playing it contin...

Fascinating article about what has been called, at various times, the "Bradley effect," "Wilder effect," or the "D...

Haven't done this for a while... (this week's questions are here .) 1. Which web browser do you prefer? Firefox! Although I'm f...

A few articles I've found interesting lately: There and Back Again , by Nick Paumgarten, looks at the phenomenon of the commute in the U...

I had a surprisingly good day at work today, which happens infrequently enough that I thought I should mark the occasion with a post! Part o...

We have our first house inspection tomorrow, so tonight saw an extreme flurry of cleaning in preparation. I don't think it's at all...

Quote of the afternoon: I'm so po-mo, Foucault isn't even po-mo enough for me! I love it when pretentious arts students get together...

Nerdy American history comic! Hooray! (found by Crip , who kindly emailed it to me) Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

As a public service announcement, I'm telling you all that SBS is showing Metallica: Some Kind of Monster this Saturday night at 10.10p...

What People Said Tornadoes Sounded Like Before the Invention of the Freight Train : "Really heavy men jogging".

I've been listening to Rehab by Amy Winehouse pretty much non-stop for the last 24 hours, except for when I listened to F**k Me Pumps ...

Interesting article in the New York Times about attempts by companies to market to Muslim-Americans . I thought this little tid-bit was par...

I've become, well, mildly obsessed with Doctor Who lately. And now that I have quite a lot of free time on my hands, as well as a less...

Ways that you know you've been spending too much at the physio lately: when the physio offers you a job. That's three job offers in ...