Holidays are the time for trawling YouTube and making pointless ‘best of’ lists. So, in no particular order, my top 10 goals (with a very large Man Utd bias obviously). Mark Hughes – Wales Vs Spain I got many a bruise trying to do this. Give it a go. It is nowhere near as easy as Sparky makes this look. Eric Cantona – Man Utd Vs Sheff Utd The...

On 12th April 1981, I was an 11 year old boy. I sat an watched in awe as Columbia made the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle. It looked not entirely unlike this. Columbia Taking Off The coverage of the launches in those days wasn’t quite as sexy as it is now. You got the whoosh up into the sky for 90 seconds or so and that was about it. None of the on board...

They say there are many ways to skin a cat. But, in general, getting movies made has always been down a more trodden path. Raise some money, make the film. OK, sometimes it can be hard, people have mortgaged their house to get films finished (as Chartoff and Winkler did to complete Rocky) but there can be few people who have laid it on the line as much as Brenna Lee...

Well, 7 hours from now. At 9pm tonight, Season 2 of Bimbogami will go live. I think it could be a fun night/weekend. We have seen all the puzzlers gathering on the site since we announced the date/time and it looks like they might all jump on tonight to see who can complete first. Based on last time, I think there is a good chance that one or more people will have...

After many months of cogitation and musing, the launch date and time for the next incarnation of the online puzzle quest Bimbogami has been announced. Bimbogami Season 2 is almost upon us. So, get your puzzling head ready for Friday 4th July 2008 at 9:00pm BST and another rollercoaster ride through 40 devilish free online puzzles. Well, 39, the first one is really...

Not long to go until Season 2 of Bimbogami is unleashed on the puzzle world. Testing has begun on the new set of puzzles and MorFF is busy scurrying about behind the scenes to get the site ready. Thankfully, there’s not a huge amount to do due to the genius of the original data model. If you’ve not seen or heard of Bimbogami before, it is an entirely free...

Following on from my recent spate of clip posts, I’m going to go for a Top 10, thus propelling me nearer to the top of the “Blogs with an editorial style close to Channel 5″ charts.* So, inspired by a chat on the way home with Stu the other night, I decided to work out what my favourite foreign** films. I’m not claiming this to be the best...

It is said that time adds a rosy hue to most things. And the urge to be and feel young again drives a seemingly unquenchable thirst for nostalgia and unending mutterings of how “things were better then”. There is one area of such nostalgia for people* of my vintage that seems to have me in a very tight grip. The sights, sound and memories associated with...

It is not customary for me to do reviews herein but I was moved to write about my experiences last night at a Von Südenfed gig in the Liquid Room in Edinburgh. Where to start? Lets start with the album and the reason for going. Tromatic Reflexxions is a good album, quite a different sound for me and those familiar Mark E. Smith groans make it simultaneously new and...

Since the disappearance of Puzzle Donkey there has been a big hole in the puzzlers life. Sure, there is Sudoku and Nonogram sites aplenty but nothing that really gave the same sense of quest, of progress of, well, frankly, eye-bleeding frustration. For this reason, it is with great delight that I write about the next in the line of great free online puzzle sites,...