Archive for January, 2008

Family Games 2

Friday, January 18th, 2008

OK, if we aren’t going to play Savagely Beat The Lion then we can all sit back and play the most insane video game ever. From the Kafkaesque opening scene to the madness of the race itself to God as a race announcer this game looks positively nuts. If you want it you can get [...]

Where Is The Chinese Fortune Cookie Really From?

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Where is the Chinese fortune cookie really from? Not from China but from Japan apparently. Neat story, apparently became popular during the Second World War so I can see why the Japanese history of it was quietly forgotten.

Family Games

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Last night we played Clue at my house. We could have been playing ‘Savagely Beat The Lion’. Via Broken Toys

Smart Criminals

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

One of my favorite (and probably apocryphal) stories about dumb criminals is about the guy who tried to rob the bank across the street from the FBI headquarters on payday. Supposedly the only people in the bank not armed were the tellers and the bank guard so the robbery did not go well. However, now [...]

Jeremy Clarkson. Idiot.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

So Jeremy Clarkson publishes his bank details to show everyone that the government losing said details didn’t matter to anyone. This ends just as you would expect it to.

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Friday, January 4th, 2008