To give the devil its due, I must admit that Google Reader's Recommendations is an excellent little feature. Some sort of screwy algorithm does some sort of thingamagig with my RSS feed selection flavours, bouncing up some beautiful bits of random junk...

I missed this article by Mike Sabin at Voxy last week, where the anti-drugs campaigner bemoans a scheme that all but decriminalises cannabis possession: "Unfortunately, while the Police will be making the most of this new legislation, at the same...

Boing Boing points to Henry Rollins' article in Vanity Fair looking at Bhopal 25 years after the lethal Union Carbide leak which killed, and is still killing and maiming, thousands of neighbouring households. Wikipedia notes that the death toll is...

Thistle Hall is holding a $100 art sale today between 6 and 8pm today. There's an album of what's on sale here, including this nice Paua Mandelbrot necklace. HT Wellingtonista. This it what happens when you zap a block of acrylic with a...

A commodity broker gets an unexpected comeuppance when an errant programming error lands him with a real, honest to god commodity; 28,000 tonnes of coal: For once, Brad was speechless. He had absolutely no idea who that man was and he could...