I hope the Christmas Day Who will henceforth be known as "Run Doctor Run". (With the tagline to involve gurning somehow).

It's just struck me that Livejournal attempt to charge you for the privilege of blogging, whereas Blogger, if you set up Adsense ads on it, will actually pay you for blogging.

Interesting that both business models work.

I notice thanks to Nathan Fillion via rhube that Richard Castle's new book Heat Wave is available for pre-order on Amazon.

My head hurts.

(If you're not watching Castle then I recommend that you start.)

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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is wrong - I realize this is a popular trope.

Specifically, cheese straws should be made with self-raising flour, not plain flour, and with roughly grated cheese (50-50 red leicester and strong cheddar works well) nor finely grated cheese. If you do it how he recommends, you end up with oblongs of dense, flat pastry. Do ( Read more... )

Baby anteaters!

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Strathclyde Police have 10 Jedi in their number. However, according to the article there are 390,000 Jedi in a UK population of ~65m people, which is an incidence of about 0.5% - Strathclyde Police have 8000 officers, so having only 10 Jedi is 0.125% - clearly, they need to recruit more Jedi to better reflect the people they are policing :)

I'm not sure which is more worrying - the fact that nuclear-grade duct tape exists or the implication that someone already tried regular duct tape and it wasn't good enough.

Indict Blair for war crimes. Spread the word.

Guardian "Bad Science" columnist Ben Goldacre is being threatened with legal action for posting an audioclip from a radio show of, well, basically, a crazy person denying the efficacy and safety of the MMR vaccine.

Hilariously, this comes in the week that it is revealed that Andrew Wakefield faked his MMR-autism trial results in the first place.