The Guardian has a thought provoking series this week on 1000 novels everyone must read. The list is very UK flavored, not surprising for a UK paper, but it has a lot of good stuff in it and doesn’t miss out much I would have added in the categories I have read the most in [...]
Many of you are probably tired of last year’s big internet meme, Bears in Ill Fitting Hats, but David Malki wants to make sure we wrap it all up properly by telling the stories of the bears themselves. Yes I know they were everywhere and even your Grandmother is making Bears in Ill Fitting Hat [...]
Thanks to a news story about how UK nurses are being savagely mauled by squirrels the UK Mirror has also posted up its
The plane crash today in the Hudson river with everybody on board surviving was a miracle. Like all miracles I think it had some help. The strict requirements for pilot training helped here, the pilot kept his head and did an good emergency landing. The aircraft safety training the crew went through paid off as [...]
This is making the nerd web site circles I haunt and it make me laugh so I thought I would pass it along. Star Wars, (Retold By Someone Who Has Never Seen It) Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
Apparently stealing Brownies is illegal, who knew? Not that I would have any knowledge directly on this topic. I still have no recollection of any plate of Mrs. C’s excellent brownies going missing at an alleged game night many years ago.