london

Thirty years of restaurants

Last night I went the the Jazz club in the basement of Pizza Express at 10 Dean St. I was surprised. I'd always known there was a jazz club there but I had always imagined that the jazz was something of an after-thought; a cynical marketing wheeze mainly

psycho

What on earth are you doing?

"Caspar, what on earth are you doing?" Goodness knows I've heard that phrase often enough. Well finally I have an answer of kinds: http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/caspar

good

things to be clear about when visiting Hungary

ACK.. :( ZWACK.. :D

life

The True Believer

createdimprove- Villa Incognito, Tom Robbins

science

The Humble Bee

http://www.boingboing.net...moment_of_.html Boing Boing So is a bumble bee a bee that bumbles or is she just a bumblebee? And what about beer bees?

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Hippoes in the dining room

http://jalopyjunktown.com...service_14.html Click on the link above to get to Mr. Jalopy's wise comments on a collector's eccentric and elaborate scheme to obtain a 144 piece hippo themed dinner service. In 2003, [Richard Baron Cohen] met a ceramics scholar for lunch and

quotes

marvels and mysteries

'The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is - marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of

science

Poplar genes are populous..

http://www.eurekalert.org...i-pdc091306.php EurekAlert Just to remind you, the current best estimate is that humans have 24,000 genes.

psycho

Knitted Brain with zippered corpus callosum

http://harbaugh.uoregon.edu/Brain/ Wonderful knitted model of the brain with false colour yarning and convenient reversible callosotomy zipper. Hosted at the what is probably the world's only Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art

good

Fear and Loathing in the Royal Festival Hall

rarely has the bookclub agreed so unanimously about a book and still found things to say about it. whenever we liked something in the past we've done the round of - i liked it - me too - good story - i liked the bit where they drink

bad

on the blink

i'm meant to be writing an 1000 word annual review but in classic displacement functioning, i've started moving my website to a new host.. so this page may blink out of existence at any moment.. in which case you will not be able to read this.

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YouTube - The Simpsons vs Star Trek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTpUxh8Vxc Being a miserable self-important sod, I rarely share internet memes but for this joyfulness I will make an exception. A shambolically blurry but deceptively well edited video of a giddy guy performing his own blenderization of the Simpsons and Star Trek themes on

words

The Vagueries of categories

http://www.cyberchimp.co.uk/papers/fourhands.htm In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are

psycho

Look, it's completely safe.

My colleagues fired laser beams through my head yesterday and here i am to tell the tale.. with very little observable impairment.

quotes

Live your dreams:

go back to sleep.

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book - science and fiction

just read the essential difference by simon baron cohen -- going on about the testosterone fuelled differences in male and female cognitive dispositions.. men on average are more systematic, women are more empathic.. (and how autism is instance of an 'extreme male brain' high syst + low emp) not

psycho

baby brain lasers

http://www.sheddinglight.org.uk/ We do a bit of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) in our basement but the machine doesn't look anywhere near as cool as this.. Basically it works by firing laser beams through the baby's head and seeing what comes out the other

bad

By George, a curious DVD extra feature

For reasons lost in the haze of alcohol, i recently purchased the children's movie Curious George from a very smiley man i met in my local fried chicken shop. It was a dreadful pirate copy of an averagely bad film but an unexpected bonus saved the day. We

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Cas on a hot town roof

Earlier today I was sitting on the roof of my flat in my pants reading the latest Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore is a typically strange tale superficially about a dull child who runs away to from home to join a library. I could not get very far into

others

:: gia ::

http://www.giagia.co.uk

psychos

idiolect.org.uk

http://www.idiolect.org.uk/notes/

random

Penis Owners Club

http://www.penisowner.com/welcome.html

others

Back to HEL

http://backtohel.blogspot.com/

quotes

He who lives by the sward..

.. has somewhere to walk his dog.

science

power in human units

http://www.eurekalert.org...b-stt060606.php Two power metaphors I hadn't seen before: Yesterday,  Marty Sereno was telling us about the scarieness of the peak oil crisis (see presentation at foot of his homepage) and explaining oils high energy density, he transformed the energy content of a barrel