Archive for February, 2008

World’s smallest football league

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

… I don’t see how anyone’s going to undercut them either.
For the best belly laugh, go to the official web page of the Isles of Scilly Football League, and click on “League table”.
Then read more there, or where I found it, on Brakes fan Wyn Grant’s page.

Awesome game image of the week

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Fantastic, eh?
That’s from Kotaku’s writeup on the Lego Indiana Jones game.

Compensate me for running

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

I really don’t like running. I have to do it because it’s the least-worst way of avoiding an early death from obesity and heart disease. But that doesn’t stop it being boring and painful.
It might help if I got some sort of warm and fuzzy feeling that by doing it I was making the […]

Bragg poetry

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Once a week, Melvyn Bragg sends me an email. Actually it’s the In Our Time newsletter, which, er, many people get.
This week, there’s a line-break error, meaning that most of it is in one narrow column, but the occasional line stretches out to the right. Picking out the parts of these lines that stand […]

“Papers please”

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Many years ago, our family accommodated an African student for a couple of weeks, while he participated in a project on sustainable agriculture. When we took him to the beach, he was most concerned that he would need to take his ‘papers’ with him. This reinforced our prejudices about tinpot authoritarian states in mysterious […]



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