Monthly Archives: March 2007

I feel violently ill…

…and now you can too. This is quite possibly the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

Out of Sorts

Here’s an account of the origins of the phrase ‘out of sorts’. Interesting in its own right, but also because by the end of it you’ll probably be thinking what a weird word sorts is. It just doesn’t look right. Sorts, sorts, sorts.

Zombie Terrorists

No, I’m not obsessed, but he’s playing a blinder lately. First the MySpace nonsense, and now he appears to be making stuff up. He’s claiming that: General Petraeus, the commander of all U.S. troops in Iraq, “goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” Lest there be confusion, no he doesn’t. There are [...]

On the Intertubes

John McCain has a MySpace page. John McCain’s people skip a step or two in setting the page up. Result: McCain runs a graphic on his page saying that he now supports gay marriage, “particularly marriage between passionate females”. Update: It’s been fixed. Now you have the chance to add yourself to McCain’s ‘Gorup’.

Involuntary interval training

I promised a report on my experience so far with my new single speed bike, and I’m sure you’ve had a restless night waiting for an update. Well the short answer is it’s fun, but it hurts. Having a single gear simplifies things greatly. There’s no decision for what gear would best suit the upcoming [...]