25-1 odds that's water from an automatic sprinkler system. Probably had a pipe or fitting burst from a freeze up.

Nathan Barley was such a funny show and ahead of its time i think. Brooker and Morris were taking the piss out of hipsters before it was cool

Did you catch the Chris Morris retrospective on Radio 4 Extra the other month? Unfortunately it is not on iPlayer anymore (though my wife found an MP3 on the Cook'd and Bomb'd website). It had a lot of stuff I'd heard before, but some great moments I hadn't, such as:

You're my new favorite commentator.

Hardcore fighting game players, in general, hate everything. Always complaining about characters not getting nerfs or buffs or someone getting too much of one or the other. They're never satisfied. This is part of the reason why Street Fighter 4 has 4 major releases and a couple of balance updates in between.

Is this io9 or the 10pm news?

Nerds flipped the fuck out at the mere suggestion of Donald Glover playing Spider-Man in a movie. And the fanbase of James Bond is older and less open to change. (They were throwing fits over Craig having blond hair.) I'd love to see it happen but I predict... resistance.

Chess first.

"You lost a lot of blood in the car crash, son," the doctor said, furrowing his high brow, "but I have some bad news for you."

"Don't be brown."

Aside from the two British Christmas specials, the most important news this week is the Good Omens radio adaptation, starting today! At 11 pm British time! Worldwide!

Because "fuck region restricted content"...

Sci-Slam sounds too much like a knowledge-based poetry contest held in a lab and attended by assholes smoking clove cigarettes and snapping their fingers...

I certainly hope not. It's hard enough to live on this planet as it is.

Science, you are amazing.

Black Mirror keeps being one of the best shows on TV over and over again.