Over 22, srilanka innings when roleplaying and cricket collide (briefly)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/18/sri-lanka-new-zealand-live

Andrew Sullivan has some sensible questions about what seems to be an upcoming engagement in Libya.

I have to say, that on this one I find myself in the 'we must do something' camp. Principally because it seems to me that there does seem to be a good chance of making things better and avoiding a wave of massacre and repression. In stark contrast to ( Read more... )

Hello all, seems I can't actually concentrate on work at 10PM so here's a long overdue update.

( Stuff I've been doing )

The book I am reading: Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) and Alan Quatermain (Rider Haggard), which are in rotation on my lovely new kindle. Dickens I'm sure you know about, if you haven't read Rider Haggard's stuff get stuck in, you're missing a treat, and it's all free free free on project Gutenberg. (Thanks triskellian  for convincing me to buy a Kindle)
The ( Read more... )

Why is Kieran interviewing Mike Tyson?

Kieran organises expeditions to the Arctic and occasionally posts about boxing on Facebook. This is definitely the most surreal thing I've seen today.

Is moving close to positive territory. If I'd picked Brent Crude as the oil of choice I think I'd be up today, for the first time in the history of the bet. As it is, Sweet light crude on the New York exchange is the bet, and while it's over $100, there's a few years of inflation to account for yet ( Read more... )

Read this, and this

You can see why the protesters are demanding nothing short of a complete dismantling of the ruling faction.

Could the Amazon turn into a net carbon emitter? Looks like last year it probably did.

"Applying the same principles to the 2010 drought, they estimated that 8.5 billion tonnes of CO2 will be released - more than the entire 7.7bn tonnes emitted in 2009 by China, the biggest polluting nation in the world. This estimate does not include forest fires ( Read more... )

Despite the massive availability of media reports working out what's actually happening on the ground in Egypt is almost impossible. Here's the excellent twitter feed of Al Jazeera producer Evan Hill

http://twitter.com/evanchill

"Pro-democracy protesters have taken two of the 6th October ( Read more... )

I think at the start of the season Newcastle fans didn't know what to expect from Andy Carroll. He'd done well in the Championship, 39 appearances and 17 goals, but the step up to the premiership was going to be a big ask. Still, he wasn't bad and we had a decent chance of staying up ( Read more... )