Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Book plates for children.

50 fun facts about credit cards - sadly, primarily US-based.

Jeremy Bentham's auto icon.

Tycho Pennyarcade on Mario Party 8, and the distinction between playing games and winning them.

The 9th Annual Independent Games Festival.

The Vice Guide to getting beaten up.

Arar, Padilla, al-Delaema compared.

Sapphic sex sanctuary plugs Microsoft Vista (possibly NSFW)

Incidentally, was it just me, or when you heard that Corus had been the subject of an unsuccessful bid by Brazilian company CSN, did you find yourself wondering what they were tired of being? By extension, I hope that successful bidder Tata is helmed by a CEO/Chairman double-act of half-starved Russian faux-lesbians.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Ben Hammersley's photographs of a night in the booze ambulance, dealing with pub catastrophe in Soho.

Walrus sit-ups. For some reason Youtube feels that if you like this, you'll enjoy an incident in Roy Walker's Catchphrase when Mr.Chips appeared to be receiving executive relief.

Marshall had heard his share of slurs over the years—much of his career, after all, was in the practice of NAACP law in the Deep South, below what he called the "Smith and Wesson line." But to hear such an epithet in a conference of the U.S. Supreme Court was more than he could bear. Marshall exploded at Rehnquist, who lamely attempted to defend himself by saying in his part of the country the term wetbacks still had "currency," as Brennan recalled it.

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