Guards! Guards! trailer 8 Sep 2009 Will someone get Terry to employ this guy gal (but make sure there’s a proper foley and sound editor)? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhLyeVTmZGc&hl=en&fs=1&] Humor Pop culture
Australian stuff Bees on coke 2 Apr 2010 Isn’t this just the funniest fucking thing you’ve ever read?! Read More
Humor New rules for science journalism 26 Nov 2010 From Zack Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Click the red button too. Read More
Biology Taxonomist’s revenge 21 Jun 2009 There’s a long and distinguished history of taxonomists taking revenge upon friends and enemies (sometimes simultaneously!) by naming unpleasant things after them. Linnaeus himself named an ugly useless weed after his major critic, Siegesbeck, who had attacked the “sexual system” of Linnaean botany. More recently, Quentin Wheeler named three types… Read More
Thanks for the reminder of Guards! Guards! but I found this rather offputting. Maybe it is my computer, but the volume oscillated between very loud and very soft, so I had to adjust the control all the time. Belated thanks for putting me onto the Pratchett series, by the way John – I have read 15 of them so far.
Well, that really, really sucked. Awful animation; strange, almost incomprehensible, accents; and terrible sound production. It’s time to re-read some Pratchett just to make me forget that rubbish. — Martin