Archive for January, 2007

2006 According to the Internet

Monday, January 8th, 2007

It’s been a bit over a week and I’m just about ready to admit that 2007 has arrived and refuses to be postponed. To start with, here’s a big ol’ list of lists of what other people liked in 2006:

10 great opening sequences for movies (with YouTube versions of each.)

100 things we didn’t know last [...]

Leguchet!

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have created the ultimate office desk toy: A Lego trebuchet which fires marshmallows.

Copycat

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

ITV News - 04/01/2007
Two boys in the US and Pakistan have accidentally hanged themselves while apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein’s execution.
In two separate incidents, ten-year-old Sergio Pelico was found dead in Houston, Texas having tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed.
Meanwhile, nine-year-old Mubashar Ali was hanged from a ceiling fan while playing [...]

You Thought You Had a Rough Night?

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

At this time of year, it can be helpful to trawl the web looking for stories which make your own New Years misdemeanors seem less embarrassing:
Guardian - 11/12/2006
It is a question which might baffle the greatest minds in detective fiction, Father Brown, say, or Brother Cadfael: what happened to the Bishop of Southwark last Tuesday [...]