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"Post-truth politics" is nothing new.

"So a friend of mine found this box by the trash..."

America's Second Civil War

The 2012 Olympics has been paid for...yet Londoners are still paying the tax. What a surprise.

"Officials say she can't survive"...yet she has. HOW?

"Brexit will be good for British universities" - or at least, Oxford thinks so.

Headline of the Month

A final farewell to the USS Enterprise. No, not that one. No, not the failed Space Shuttle. The real one.

Were those photos showing nobody at Trump's inauguration "fake news"?

Raiders punter Marquette King punting a football through a basketball hoop from 60 feet

16tb hard disks are coming.

Authors: Winning awards and praise from your mates and getting followers on social media does not necessarily translate into money. Selling your books is what makes you money.

Scott Adams's 'Persuasion Filter' versus 'Hitler Filter' model makes sense as a way of interpreting President Trump's actions.

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PETA wrote to Games Workshop to ask them to remove plastic and metal fur garments from their plastic and metal miniatures. (I can’t decide if this was clever PR on PETA’s part or another example of them doing something that will only make people ridicule them.)

27 MPs voted in favour of a referendum on EU membership and then voted to ignore the result. Here’s a list of them. If one of them is your MP, please vote for someone else (anyone else really) at the next election.

Russians drink a lot of vodka. The USSR also wasn't the most environmentally conscious of countries. But at Ussuri Bay near Vladivostok, that seems to have worked out quite well.

Refreshingly Radioactive? The Wild History of Energy Drinks

These Game of Thrones pens are rather nice. Personally, I’d want the Targaryen fountain pen.

The 80s D&D cartoon series played like an actual D&D game

New Doctor Who should be a Dalek, say Daleks

A(nother) new low for campus craziness

This Hitler Nonsense...

Guess which corrupt leftie is a friend of struck-off tank chasing ex-lawyer Paul Shiner?

It's unfortunate when the early edition of the local newspaper of one of the teams in the Super Bowl has to go to press when they're losing 28-3 with only 17 minutes left to play, but I guess you have to go ahead and print... (Final score: 28-34, biggest comeback in Super Bowl history and tied for the fifth biggest comeback in any game in the NFL’s 96 year history.)

Hans Rosling has died.

Really clever Russians cheating on slot machines

Possibly one of the most unknowingly ironic articles ever written.

A triple century in T20??!!! Bloody hell. 300 off 72 balls. 39 sixes. Wow. Were they bowling underarm? Was the boundary ten yards away?

The connection between Hayao Miyazaki's film 'Howl's Moving Castle' and the  French Navy of the 1880s and 1890s.

Who said it? Donald Trump or Alan Partridge. (For those of you who haven’t heard of him, the other guy is a comedy character, an incompetent celebrity. I assume everyone knows who Alan Partridge is…)

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This video of Coventry City striker Yakubu (formerly a Premier League star) is wonderful.

Photos of animals that "look like they're about to drop the hottest albums of the year". (Thanks for this one beckyc.)

Regional popularity of different US television programmes displayed with heat maps.

"Groupthink mentality is rife within (British) academia."

There was life on Earth from a very early date.

If you need to overthrow a Dark Lord, don't invite the lefties to your Council...

Great visualisation of the 5th edition D&D adventure 'Out of the Abyss'. (Spoilers, obviously.) (Available for just £33.99 from your favourite online RPG store!)

Is this the most dangerous man in the world?

The Goal of Political Correctness

In China, there is a fake Tower Bridge with FOUR towers. But the bridge doesn’t lift, so obviously it’s not as good as the real thing.

The giant ship that ships other ships.

Wadebridge Veterans striker Mark Rapsey has now scored 2,000 goals. OK, so it’s not exactly the Champions League…

But what have you done for us lately?.

I had no idea that American bacon was different. Our stuff looks so much better.