Topic: Hugh Hancock asks What’s So Good About Whisky, Then?
“I like the little things. The way a glass feels in your hand, a good glass – thick, with a heavy base. I love the sound an ice cube makes when you drop it from just the right height. Too high, and it will chip when [...]
NaBloPoMo
This might be fun. I’ll see what next month’s suggested theme is.
(tags: blog nablopomo writing)
This is a small thing, but it is a perfect illustration of why the public should not be allowed to vote for things, ever.
The 2008 Bloggies were announced the other day, and I may write more about them later, if I can be arsed to form some opinions on the others, but I [...]
Chemical brain controls nanobots
This is superb stuff. I for one welcome our new grey goo overlords.
(tags: news science nanotechnology)
Zoe Williams: This po-faced rectitude – “If you accept that queer no longer means strange, you need to accept that gay no longer exclusively means homosexual”
I don’t know that I agree with that specific argument (or [...]
So, one of the things I’ve been trying to do recently is improve my backgammon game, to which end I have downloaded a backgammon game for the Mac. And it’s been working, in a frustrating kind of way. But I have been forced to conclude that the fucking things cheats. I can [...]
Britannia, Borough, London, SE1 3RU- beerintheevening.com
Must pop down and check this pub out in the next week or so. My birthday is coming up (keep March the 22nd free if you can folks) and I hear this a rather nice whisky bar, so if it’s half decent, I’ll probably be drinking there.
(tags: pub whisky)
Noisy [...]
Lifted from a few people:
Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don’t blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don’t blog about, but you’d like to hear about, and I’ll write a post about it.
All answers will go to fuel my “one long post of [...]
Google Contacts API
A safer means of allowing websites to access your contacts/addressbook data without having to give them your gmail password. Not that I know anyone who’d be stupid enough to do that, right?
(tags: google api contacts addressbook sharing)
3753 Cruithne – Wikipedia
Wikipedia article on “Earth’s second moon”. I was dimly aware that earth [...]
For the first time since I don’t know how long, all of the following statements are true.
1) I have no plans for today.2) I got a decent amount of sleep, and have no hangover or anything like that to contend with.3) I have no deadlines of any kind to worry about.4) I am not ill. [...]
Topic: Alasdair Stuart has very generously given me an unlimited budget, and access to every comic creator on the planet, and the remit to build a company that publishes comics and OGNs, and asked what I would do.
Obvious answer #1: embezzle the budget, live out the rest of my days in luxury.
Clearly, what he meant [...]