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