These are particularly nicely done - but this guy is especially excellent.

All the stars for you!

I hated and despised Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson. It’s rare for me not to finish a book, but that is the one I remember first. Second, The Ruins Of Isis by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Cack. Just Cack.

America wins if we could get some other country to just take St. Louis.

http://www.istari.org/gnba/spells/gn…

My completely irreligious mother used to do this. I always wondered why she read books by authors whose use of language offended her. My mother was weird.

That looks like Nick Clegg. So that’s what he’s doing now.

My job has gone. I used to work as a data entry clerk for various companies/government agencies in the UK, but these days everything is paperless all the way down the line, and there are just no positions available for a fast and accurate data inputter, unless it’s as an addendum to reception work, customer-facing…

I’m so glad I’m not the only person who feels this way. Thank you.

I live in Charles Darwin’s old house. Or at least I live in the same Victorian house, now converted into apartments. So I live in part of Charles Darwin’s old house.

I found that Chrome was opening several instances of itself even when I wasn’t using it (I use FF by default, but did use Chrome for image-using sites that FF would not display correctly like Argos and IKEA in the UK) I don’t know whether this was a plug-in problem but I noticed it when my PC started registering CPU…

Thank you for posting this, it’s lovely. Beautiful watercolours.

My tupenny-worth:

Blimey. Nantwich is my home town. I went to a local primary school and then the grammar school (as it was), both schools are signatories to this heavy-handed nonsense. The town was a bit of a poky, one-eyed hole back in the day, and I fled as soon as I was old enough (late teens/early 1980s), but I remember both…

By all the gods and none those floral prints are nasty. Look like nylon sofa covers my mother bought in 1974.

Last two:

This is cool. Also let's legally recognise either all religious belief, or none. Someone suggested having an allotment of floating days for everyone to claim for religious observance/whatever else, which seems pretty reasonable. Otherwise business as usual.

I'd never heard of the coffee rinse to stop hair shedding before; your post prompted me to investigate further, and I will try it. I generally shed like a mutt so anything to slow that down is hugely welcome - thank you for the suggestion.

There is this project: http://www.teuthis.com/daisy/ for an open source .mp3 player. (Sadly I don't have the electronics skills to do anything useful with the information other than pass it on to others.)

Came here for this; happy now.