Today's random spam subject line...

"mountaineer contractor nolan hereditary"

And there you have it.

A puzzle for our times

Why do people leave out Christmas trees for the recycling collection with decorations on?

It just seems such a waste. Time to go gleaning down Oakhill Road....

The best childrens TV programme ever...

...was not Bagpuss, though it did come from the same stable.

It was the wonderful Ivor The Engine.

"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..."

What more could you want? Ivor had everything: North Wales, choirs, coal mines, narrow gauge steam railways, elephants, and (of course) dragons!

And now, if you have a colour printer (and a toilet roll), you can make your very own Ivor!

If ever I needed 3D glasses...

...it would be now!

(Nasa has constructed a 3D panorama from images sent back by Spirit)

Scary things...

While, err, perusing a newsgroup devoted to recordings of BBC Radio programs, I came across something that chilled me to the bone.

People were asking for...

( This isn't worksafe! Well, it is really, but that's not as fun, is it... )