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Spanish wind turbines kill "6 million to 18 million birds and bats annually".

Doctor Who Van Gogh t-shirt, by Truffle Shuffle

Best Photo of the Month

The next Total War game will be Rome 2!

A Song of Ice and Fire and Minecraft

Lifeguard fired for helping drowing man

Evolution of the F1 Car 1950 - 2012 (really nice piece of animated graphic design)

Explaining the British government's economic policies and the current economic situation.

Neil Gaiman is working on a Sandman prequel.

Christopher Tolkien's first interview in something like forty years. He was a cantankerous old fart then. Do you think he's improved...?

The first photo ever uploaded to a website. (You mean you didn’t know that CERN has its own girl band? And what’s more, they’re pretty good. And now would totally be a good time for a commercial release for “Mr Higgs”.)

Pep Guardiola leaves a lasting legacy at Barcelona

Fabulous photographs of some of the last Asiatic lions alive, in the Gir Forest in India

AGW theory from an engineering perspective (thanks to ford_prefect42 for the link)

'The Internet', as portrayed by 1990s stock images

The world's highest-paying sports teams (now dominated by football, but cricket rising fast)

All you need to know about Flat Earth Theory

Lego says no to Lego Firefly. Still, nice model of Serenity.

Download Steam games remotely.

After the otters who look like Benedict Cumberbatch and the meerkats who look like Nigel Farage, it's the owls who look like Roy Hodgson!

Game of Thrones opening title sequence. In LEGO!

Why your email didn't get through.

Big wasp.

Pat Robertson thinks it would serve the Denver Broncos right if Peyton Manning got injured, because of how they treated godboy Tebow.

Manchester couple invite the Queen to their wedding as a joke. She accepts.

Do one thing at a time.

Christopher Priest really isn't a fan of Charles Stross.

One of the rarest of D&D modules, released as a special edition for people who attended the  1986 National Garden Festival in Stoke-on-Trent (yes, really)

Some sensible analysis of the 'pasty tax'. Believe it or not, this story is STILL front page news in the southwest.

Time to reassess the Major government?

The new Jaguar F-Type sounds interesting.

Real live dragon!

Britain's oldest footballer. He's 72!

What Nicolas Sarkozy and Christian Noyer seemingly don't understand about ratings agencies

The 'real' market, the 'expectations' market and why 'maximising shareholder value' is the "dumbest idea in the world".

More confused coverage of tax issues from the mainstream media (this time the BBC)

Is Ron Paul a libertarian then? No. Not really.

Lego Stephen Hawking. (I can't see this range being as successful as Lego Star Wars...)

Why clothes look better on celebrities than they do on you.

As The Old Republic goes live, George Lucas's final plan is revealed...

This upcoming film by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson is based on the true story of a bloke called Benjamin Mee who bought our local zoo (Dartmoor Zoo, just outside Plymouth). We asked him to come along to the You're Hired! final to be our guest speaker, and he was brilliant. (Unfortunately I missed most of his talk because the guest speaker is basically there to occupy the contestants while the judges are deciding on the winners. I did speak to him later, and he's keen to get involved more in this year's competition. We're even thinking of holding the final there next summer.

The Guardian revises article after people point out that it was somewhat anti-semitic.

Apple is now the world's most valuable company

Looters return stuff to Games Workshop

More Sea Eagles in Scotland

Smartass responses to perfectly well-meaning signs

When I was 15, me and some friends organised one of these. Without blackberries admittedly. Apparently that's now enough to get you arrested.

Garfield minus Garfield

If your political party is having a policy review, you'd think it would be a good idea to be able to discuss not particularly radical new ideas without the risk of hysterical opponents within your party calling for you to be thrown out.

Good article by a teacher on possible causes of the English riots

"A Lannister always pays his debts...So should the United States of America."

The NFL lockout is finally over. ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

The new fascists of the right

The Fleet - London's Underground River

The Undercover Economist explains the US debt ceiling stand-off, with handbags

Economics might not be good news for Superman

Launch party for Battlefield 3 bans female gamers because of _male_ bad behaviour

We're still waiting for those spending cuts George...

Useful analysis on the economy, from The Spectator

Daniel Hannan on the Dutch: "In Tolkienian terms, they are the Nandor: those who refused the crossing." (Silmarillion pedantry: If the Dutch were the Nandor, wouldn’t they have stopped at the Alps or the Urals, rather than the North Sea? Arguably the Dutch are the Sindar…)

Three iPad apps for role-players

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint

In defence of PowerPoint

"A machine gun is a powerful weapon, particularly on board a Navy ship. But it suffers from what some would consider a design flaw: It’s not a laser cannon. Until now."

The Campaign for Real Monopoly