Somebody at the Guardian made a pretty good point as to how a big part of Obama's cool is the way he embraces his natural nerdiness, compared to Romney who just looks awkward trying to make out he's "one of us." If I ever want to become PM I'll probably give stump speeches in video game T-shirts from deviantart.*

I think this topic requires research. Hands on, in-the-field practical research.

I recently saw a late-20's couple, possibly married or engaged, holding hands as they walked beneath the spring blossoms of the city park on the first warm day of spring. She was smiling obliviously in the evident joy of the moment. He was walking as far away as he could from her without letting go, gawping at the…

Pile O'Kittens - Your Republican nomination for 2012.

I've decided to sit on my wallet/connection for a formal release in a sort of probably-self-defeating protest. They way I see it, pirating it from another source, even when it's been launched free, just makes it seem like I don't value the product. I do, I'm prepared to pay for it, but I can't give them my money until…

As an international Avatar fan who prefers to enjoy his media legitimately wherever possible, can I just make the obvious point of how monumentally stupid international distribution convention is in the digital age?

As a British person I approve of this plan. I shall relay it to Parliament by owl, in the traditional manner.

It's not that he's just pissed off elderly women, it's simply that the elderly women seem to be the most proactive group in expressing their displeasure right now. A displeasure most in the UK currently share.

It does rather smack that Mr Lansley might be trying to kick up a fuss about something, anything, to distract people from his recent health "reforms."

On the subject of female-action media, Avatar: Legend of Korra which I cannot wait for.

Am I the only person who is suddenly very acutely aware of the fact they know absolutely no sign language whatsoever?

This is one of those odd instances when you can't tell if this is somebody desperately trying to put a brave face on things or if they are genuinely, sincerely that out of touch with reality.

Difficult to say but I don't think generational specifically - much more along religious/social lines especially from the more evangelical communities within the Catholic and Baptist denominations, who sometimes can boast having younger members among the standard aged congregation.

Although I'm pleased to note that the UK remains staunchly pro-choice by a good two thirds seeing this sort of thing appear does worry me as a Brit. I'm acutely aware that the pro-life movement in the UK is a very real entity that's been stewing for quite some time (my grandmother is staunchly anti-abortion) and I'm…

The way people go on about him I never understood how someone like Nixon ever became president until I saw Frost V Nixon with Frank Langella, and then I started to understand. He did have serious issues but he was a genuinely soulful & charismatic man who apparently felt things very very deeply. These letters seem to…

Zing.

This make me very very angry.

Surely, if there's one profession on this planet you actively want everyone involved to be as actively goddamn nerdy as possible...?

They do seem to be everywhere I look at the moment.

This is true, but the project was swiftly canceled when during a test on a model village the bats instead roosted in the nooks & crannies of a nearby base, causing heavy damage.