Did a couple of checks on UK Amazon and as a result have cancelled a £52.40 order, telling them exactly why.

Ob Googlebomb: Amazon Rank.

The first-ever winner of the Frank Darcy Award - the *most* prestigious literary award in science fiction and fantasy (yeah, yeah, those of us who knew Frank can hear him laughing).

Selected by the very talented and handsome Paul Cornell and, amazingly, won without any bribes towards the judge.

Thanks go to desperance, irishkate, gmh and icudoc for reading and sniggering ( Read more... )

From assorted people, including gioiaverdi, hano, sierra_le_oli and shezanIn case you were wondering, the black user icons thing that many have suddenly started displaying is to show solidarity with Internet Blackout NZ which is protesting against ( Read more... )

It's either that the days are getting longer or those friendly bombs finally found Slough.

Hauled gmh away from WoW.

We had Clangers outside. Absolutely enchanting.

I'd love to know what it was in central London. And no, it wasn't car alarms.

ETA: And no, I hadn't fallen down a rabbit hole. There really were Clangers outside.

The answers can be found and the scores are as follows:

songster 0
girlyswot 1
weymss 1
tortoise 1
scotschik 1
the_magician 1
artw 2
aligoestonz 2
aquila1nz 3
m31andy 3
fuchsoid 5 (half a point on two of the answers since I had to actually find the answer)
nojay 8

Now it gets exciting. First of all we had Lancashire v Yorkshire, which led to a fascinating race as I was scoring it up.

legionseagle 11
burkesworks 12 ( Read more... )

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Answers are now up on the school's website. I'll do a summary later of how we did.

All entries are now closed.

Arise, Sir Pterry!

How soon until he jokes "But they call me Mr Pratchett"?

Here we go again - the King William's College quiz. As per usual, it's quite okay to look up answers, so long as you have an idea of where to find them - straightforward Googling is cheating. Thus "ooh, I know, it's in The Big Six" and subsequently looking up the character's name is fine, typing a phrase into Google is not ( Read more... )