To quote Grier, my favourite character from Oglaf: "Those of you who are pregnant, raise your children to be more sensible than you."

I second that. Auntie has always done a good job with all their sports coverage but they're really surpassing themselves now.

Looking forward to today's football clashes. Is it wrong I'm supporting Japan because I'm somewhat infatuated with their captain? Probably, but I don't care.

I only object to the Cary Grant movie reference, many of who's movies tended to star him as a sort of stylish Manic Pixie Boyfriend/Husband.

This is fantastic news, though after the first batch I still can't look at my Xbox Live avatar without a deep sense of fear and shame.

"What happens when squid fuck? TELL ME, SCIENCE!" - Well hello new T-shirt slogan.

I just moved to a new abode, and I do think I've found my first piece of wall personalisation.

If it hasn't already been mentioned, the 3rd drama in the UK Channel 4's mini-series Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker specifically and brilliantly poses many of the questions this tech raises in the context of a relationship breaking down. In the near future everyone has implants that records everything the person sees…

I love what a lovely big ol' mama the dog is to the kitten, especially with that parental clamp-down near the end.

It is indeed a strange and godless universe.

Hell yeah. There's going to be a book 3 & 4 as well!

In my life I have yet to meet anyone "Evil". I have however met plenty of people, including people in positions of power, who are spectacularly non-self aware, existing in self-assuring bubbles of their own making and basically do not understand that people exist outside of their peripheral vision. Sometimes I want to…

There are few things I hate more than politicians who promote "fiscal responsibility" by defunding shit we actually need, usually for little actual reduction in spending overall. I'm betting half a mil is a fortune to the work that that centre does but pennies to the state budget as a whole.

Basically, it's the popcorn trick for fish?

That's totally within the character's purview in my opinion. Dredd is a fascist but the character manages to be somewhat of cypher within that, depending on the writer/artist behind him. Sometimes he's a total anti-democrat, sometimes he's working hero, sometimes he's an unfeeling executioner, sometimes he's a comic…

I'm so glad to read this, the trailer looked a little iffy but by the sounds of it they've captured the Judge Dredd thesis pretty neatly. Looking forward to it with confidence now.

I love Tumblr but there does seem to be a fairly hardcore subset of people on there who are determined to have the moral high ground no matter what the cost, or relevance or impact it might actually have on anything they claim to believe in. Mostly what ends up happening is that bigots get a mountain of online…

It's easy to say violence isn't an answer and maybe it's true, but life often proves too tricky and varied a business for anything to be universally true. In this specific instance it is quite impossible to object to what she did. Hopefully those arseholes will get hit by something much larger then her.

So did I solve a Japanese capcha for nothing or...?

This sort of backlash really depresses me as someone who loves the hell out of his video games. I've also had my head in my hands since discovering S&M nun assassins are part of the new Hitman game, instantaneously killing all interest I had in it. There's still this weird, pubescent element in the culture which…