Phligm Phlagm

You know, I haven't done a Phligm Phlagm post in over a month. I mean I have been very busy, but I'm sure many of my readers are and some of you manage to post very regularly.

Anyway, I have a backlog to clear and some new userpics to try out, so here goes...

I haven't tried this yet, but it does look pretty cool if astrophysics simulations are your thang

List of the genre authors who complained about the "BBC's shabby treatment of genre fiction"

How to tell how good your graphics card is

Workers in the public sector are more than 40% better off than their private sector counterparts

Samoa jumps forward in time by a day

A comparison of 'Reaganomics' and 'Obamanomics'

Ahmadinejad allies arrested for sorcery (yes, really)

The greatest PC Game ever made*

(* Well, the greatest game ever made about a far future Bible-totin’ n quotin superhero…)

More Phligm Phlagm

Let slip the cats of war...

I know this guy...

Domesday Project online

What does it say when the advert with the most at least partially upheld complaints was from our own government...?

First The Bill, now Taggart. (How many people have been "muddud" in Glasgow in the last 28 years? It must have the second highest murder rate in the world, after Midsomer...)

What happens when you put a bunch of climate scientists from different sides of the argument in a room together?

Modern SF writers pick "the best science fiction"

The weirdest slugs you've ever seen. (Well, I say slugs - I'm convinced the last one is a shoggoth...)

Am I the only one left wondering why the bloody binmen can't just put them back when they've emptied them...? (Maybe they aren’t paid as much in Preston as they are in Birmingham.)

And more Phligm Phlagm

Brave United fans heroically rub scousers’ noses in it

China Mieville on three visions of alternative history (and please, read to the end)

Like Time Team, only with satellite technology

Danish government threatens to ban Marmite

Let's be honest, the only difference between McArdle, Adams and McGuinness is that McArdle got caught.

This is wonderful - how James Bond came to have the gun he has.

Was the US Civil War the best war for facial hair ever? Yes. Yes it was.

H.P. Lovecraft's favourite artists