My favourite Stumbles of today: Other People’s Stories: Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, […]

If Bush keeps tripping over his own feet, it should be hard for the Democrats not to win the election.

Good heavens: Automated Essay Grading exists. Admittedly they’re only recommending it as a tool students can use during revision, before submitting the paper, but if you read the full paper (PDF) you’ll see that computers have many advantages over human assessors: A […]

I’ve been meaning to blog this for weeks: Stumbleupon. Sign up, add a toolbar to your browser (not Safari or Explorer for Macs; use Firefox or Mozilla instead) and click a thumbs up when you like a website. It’ll store the bookmark. […]

Oh and this is hilarious: ping pong theatre in the style of Hong Kong fighting movies. Or a fight in The Matrix.

Interestingly presented website of a street artist in Copenhagen –Husk mit navn is his tagline, remember my name. As you’ll see if you poke around the photos on the website he does lots of kinds of adornment, mostly painted on walls. I […]

It’s the sort of weather, really, where you should have the windows open at midday and a fire burning in the evening. I wrote for two hours and will eat lunch on my garden steps, warming my toes in the sunlight.

Grumpygirl seems to have thrown her recent blog-gloom, having several more of those wonderfully slanted observations she does so well. Can’t find her archives though. I also found some morning amusement at Courting Disaster, the diary of an Australian lawyer currently doing […]

How on earth could Virgin Atlantic have been surprised that this urinal would be offensive? Pissing into a woman’s mouth? Hello? (via Gianna)