I missed this when it passed around a month or so ago. Just stumbled across it and think it is brilliant.
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

Once the empire fades, what is left?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on [...]

Is it the end of Feudalism? Sark finally allows universal suffrage.

Ok, I do have some sympathy for the descendants of Admiral Byng, but not much really. They have put a petition to Parliment to ‘restore his honor’, but not pardon him. They say
It has been a long time … but if we were moved by the families of World War One, which was a long [...]

You had me at “Sexy Viking Women”

I liked the movie Gettysburg, despite problems like glue on beards and a semi-crazed Robert E. Lee it was a pretty good movie but it can’t hold a candle to the awesome Gettysburg movies linked below.

An interesting article I missed in the Telegraph says that they have possibly identified a body found at the abbey graveyard of Hulton Abbey as that of Hugh Despencer. Hugh was hanged, disemboweled then drawn and quartered and the body found has appropriate wounds to have had this done to it. In addition the body [...]

Just saw this on Boing Boing and thought I would post it up as it looks cool. I won’t be able to really look at it till later, but this is a small flash game based on the Bow Street Runners around 1750 in London’s disreputable Covent Gardens district. Apparently featuring adult language and situations [...]

In my post Pancake ban gloom I missed a real ray of light, the annual Shrovetide Football game went on as usual. The Up’ards won this year, hurray! I can’t help but think that sooner or later the state and health and safety nannies must come and kill this glorious game, it must gall them [...]

The amiable but clearly addlepated Archbishop of Canterbury declared that imposing Sharia law over England is inevitable. It is interesting that he only picks Sharia Law for special privilege. I am surprised as Jews have lived in England for quite awhile (at least since the Expulsion Act of 1290 was rescinded in 1656), yet the [...]