Thanks to Chartroose for the meme, found over on Bloody Hell, It’s A Book Barrage. Standard pointless memyness. Do join in… Have you ever…

I came across a site the other day that allows you to apparently determine what rating your blog would have if it was a film. Obviously, it just scans through what it can find on your home page, rather than looking at the in-depth content, but apparently I qualify for parental guidance. This rating was [...]

I was just plodging about the internet the other day, thinking about how I enjoy writing and really ought to put a bit more effort into trying to write some fiction. Obviously, once I’ve done that, the harder part is persuading someone to give me money for it, but one thing at a time, yeah? [...]

Finally, a book meme that asks a little more than “list your 10 favourite books” or “here’s a big list of books, which ones have you read?”. One of the things I do frequently is to browse the blogrolls of the bloggers on my blogroll. In this case, I wandered over to Stephen Lang’s site, [...]

For no particular reason — other than that I was running out of things to post about — I decided to have a trawl through my iMusic Collection. This got me thinking about songs which for some reason have a special meaning to me, or which stuck in my head for some particular reason. I [...]

Reading Meyerweb the other day, I caught sight of one of his ‘distractions’, titled ‘Summarized Cinema: Science Movies explained in a sentence’. This sounded intruiging, so I headed over to the site to find out what it was about. I became intrigued by the short description of Curse of the Fly that appeared on the [...]

Completely bizarre and random list of favourites (these Americans can’t spell properly, you know) found over at Milan To Minsk, which just out of sheer bloody-mindedness, I have decided to treat as a meme. I am not changing the questions at all from the original, but obviously the answers will, in many cases, be different [...]

No, it’s not some sort of agricultural implement as featured on The Wurzels Greatest Hits, it’s an API thingummy where you can either input some text or a blog RSS feed and it will output a pretty ickle word diagram of whatever it is you’ve been talking about. Here’s the Wordle picture for ‘ThePickards’, taken [...]

Have you ever had one of those conversations where someone mentions some sort of film reference, and you stare at them blankly? No? Well maybe you’re a film buff then. I’m not. Nor am I a literature buff. I like to read fiction and I like to watch films because I want to be entertained. [...]

The Music Intelligence Quiz via Very True Things. Your final score was 129/180 Mix-Tape Master (109-144 points) You are a music evangelist: the person in your network of friends who always has the coolest new song, the one whose iPod gets picked to DJ every party. You understand the art of the segue, how the [...]