Islingword Street

Students beware!

Burning joss sticks 'as deadly as traffic fumes or cigarette smoke'

I am not a hedgehog. Am I?

Is it true, as Wikipedia reports (possibly from this source), that people from Hertfordshire are nicknamed 'Haycocks' or 'Hedgehogs' in the same way that people from Yorkshire are 'Tykes'?

Model railway sex

The Register picks up an article on Spiegel Online, showing some models launched at a recent model fair, perfect for anyone's railway layout. They include 'sex in motion' a (powered) sex scene and 'raid on a brothel'.

Half empty? Half full? Why can't it be both?

Wendell notes two AP stories on US attitudes to the forthcoming year. One is very downbeat, the other very upbeat - but based on the same poll data.

Halo How Not To Be Seen

The audio of Monty Python's How Not To Be Seen, with visuals courtesy of first-person shooter Halo. (via MeFi)

Indexed by Old Bag

A blog with lots of great little graphs.

Reaction effect

A relaxing, beautiful and unwinnable flash game: try and get a chain reaction going.

Er, that looks almost exactly like a...

Which corporate logo looks most like a penis? B3TA decides.

Am I cystitis or not?

A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.

Flanders and Flanders

Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online - Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.