American Graffiti director George Lucas's forgotten 1977 science fiction movie.

Want a cuddly archaeopteryx? There's still time to back the kickstarter!

Göbekli Tepe: a "smoking gun" for the Younger-Dryas impact hypothesis? (The Younger-Dryas impact hypothesis proposes that comet airburst or impact caused the Younger-Dryas cole period of the 11th ( Read more... )

Pendle Borough Council meetings must be...interesting.

There is something very wrong about rich kids from the west going on holiday to the developing world and begging for money from locals to pay for it.

Florida sheriffs failing to "not look like ISIS".

Good article about the new edition of Traveller.

On the taxonomy of spaceships.

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This video of Coventry City striker Yakubu (formerly a Premier League star) is wonderful.

Photos of animals that "look like they're about to drop the hottest albums of the year". (Thanks for this one beckyc.)

Regional popularity of different US television programmes displayed with heat maps.

"Groupthink mentality is rife within (British) academia."

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PETA wrote to Games Workshop to ask them to remove plastic and metal fur garments from their plastic and metal miniatures. (I can’t decide if this was clever PR on PETA’s part or another example of them doing something that will only make people ridicule them.)

27 MPs voted in favour of a referendum on EU membership and then voted to ignore the ( Read more... )

"Post-truth politics" is nothing new.

"So a friend of mine found this box by the trash..."

America's Second Civil War

The 2012 Olympics has been paid for...yet Londoners are still paying the tax. What a surprise.

"Officials say she can't survive"...yet she has. HOW?

"Brexit will be good for British universities" - or at least, Oxford thinks so.

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The RPG campaign I'm currently running is an epic fantasy set in the Second Age in the far-east of Middle-earth. And since large-scale battles are an important feature of Tolkien's works, large-scale battles are an important feature of this roleplaying campaign ( Read more... )

So Peter Capaldi is leaving Doctor Who. I think that's a shame. I was greatly pleased when he was announced (so pleased in fact that I almost managed to scrub Rufus Hounds's pathetic pretence at being a 'superfan' from my memory) and I think he's been a good Doctor. He hasn't always had the strongest writing, but his acting and on screen presence ( Read more... )

Rather odd article from a website called The Art of Manliness (logo: handlebar moustache, so I approve of that bit at least). I daresay most if not all of these could be enjoyed by women too, so I thought this had the makings of an LJ meme.

Bold the hobbies that you regularly take part in and italicise the ones you’ve tried at least once as an adult ( Read more... )

Applying that decluttering bollocks to a post-apocalyptic world.

This guy really didn't like this year's Sherlock. (SPOILERS in the article.) I gave up on Sherlock years ago. Much prefer the ITV series.

Most A/B testing is bollocks.

"'No regrets': Pakistani mom promised her daughter a wedding reception. Instead, she burned her alive. Nice…

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The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord (An oldie, but a goldie.)

Ridiculously expensive options on fancy cars. (This struck a chord with me. My car wouldn’t have been cheap when it was new (18 years ago). It doesn’t have any way to keep the rear wiper on or even on intermittently. You have to press the button every time you want ( Read more... )