Super Bowl weekend

OK, since the Raiders didn't make it, I won't be making lots of Super Bowl posts. However, I thought you might be impressed by this video of New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul (who will be playing). What you have to remember is that Pierre-Paul weighs twenty stone.

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The world's largest optical telescope

Conversations overheard in a comic book store

For those of my readers who played in the original campaign that became this MERP module: the sourcebook is pretty rare, hence the ebay price.

The Guardian could have chosen better days to run a story attacking government funding of anti-terrorist security for Jewish schools than Holocaust Memorial Day... and also this.

Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?'

Gino Bartali: Tour winner, double Giro winner...and hero of the Holocaust

January's obituaries include Star Wars and Lord of the Rings sword-fighting choreographer Bob Anderson and former Fleetwood Mac lead guitarist Bob Weston.

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World goal of the season contender from (of all places) Bolivia

"The Apple Boycott: People Are Spouting Nonsense about Chinese Manufacturing"

This house is up for sale and is quite close to where we live (in fact we sometimes walk the dogs nearby). Tempting, but moving is such a hassle. Oh, and we'd have to increase the mortgage ever so slightly. The seller is environmentalist and politician Zac Goldsmith.

I think David Milliband has given up hope of ever being Labour leader.

It's more than a little unfair to blame Obama for the US national debt or even the vast increase in it.

The shocking poverty that this family of nine (yes NINE!) would be reduced to with the proposed cap on benefits. I mean they'd have to stop spending £32 a WEEK on mobile phones, cut down on the tobacco and booze and maybe even think about a cheaper Sky package...

How to illuminate your PC. I've done this. Hell, I did this with an Orac-style transparent case once.

"Germany's meteorology institute allows the sponsorship of weather systems." What!? Am I the only that thinks that's a bit odd? And it#s rather unfortunate that BMW chose to sponsor a weather system that's killed 150 people so far...

Kate Green MP has managed to get 'Top Totty' ale banned from the House of Commons bar. I wonder how she'd feel about this beer from Macedonia.

Steam / XBox Live -style achievements for tech support workers

Astonoshingly over-the-top preparations by role-playing GMs. I say "astonishingly over-the-top", but some of them sounded all-too-familiar...

Our friendly local zookeeper on that story about the lion eating the owl.

I wish my employer would take this into account when setting our password policy...

Phligm Phlagm Classic Headlines Special

All three in the last few days! We live in interesting times…

"German pensioner eats 64-year-old US lard"

"Teacher who 'spoonfed semen to blindfolded children' was investigated in 1994 over 'groping 10-year-old girl'"

"Cannibal who ate head of former lover proposes to Satan-worshipping vampire girlfriend behind bars of psychiatric unit"