Tonight I went off to watch "Derren Brown: Enigma" at the Adelphi Theatre (SJA duty). I'm not familiar with any of his previous work, although billyabbott has recommended one of his books. Anyway, it was very impressive, and I enjoyed it. He describes himself as a "fake psychic", i.e. he's not claiming to actually have any psychic powers, but he also insists that he doesn't use stooges in...

Image © Eric Hamilton Time for another terminology problem! What should we call the category for places where you can hire a shisha/hookah? Category Shisha? Category Hookah? Something else? (Note that we don't want slashes in category names, so Category Shisha/Hookah isn't an option.) As billyabbott points out over on Twitter , everyone likes a good poll, so here is a poll...

I am rather amused that it was the eighteenth amendment that installed the National Prohibition Act in the US constituion and the twenty-first amendment that repealed the act. I was out at Shepherd's Bush with friends last night to see Alabama 3. They were mighty fine. I also ran into billyabbott who let me stroke his shiny thing. (Sony eReader - and it is verily shiny!) My discoveredinalj...

so, it was my birthday the other day. a friend of mine told me i should get a ps3 and rock band, apparently oblivious to the fact that i had just turned 37. believe it or not, this made quite a difference. while pondering whether or not to get the ps3, i thought about my friends, and realised that most of them are happily married, have kids and dogs and are saving up for the next car. i figured it...

Thank you for all your responses on the typical British cake to eat with tea . The answer is either a light fruit cake, a Victoria sponge, or a seed cake. It's unclear if one of these is really more typical than another, but those were the ones you collectively prefered. What I noticed in your answers, however, is that there is no consensus on what a Victoria sponge should be flavored with. ...

One of the really good things about being an active participant on Flickr , in particular the groups , is that sometimes people invite me to get involved with things I otherwise might not have the opportunity to know about (tagging all my pictures has definitely been a huge help in achieving this, too). On Tuesday I was able to scratch another place off my list of places I've been meaning to go to...

TimeOut article on the English Cocktail Revival movement which apparently is going on. from interior_lulu . (mainly for billyabbott and mondoagogo )

I wonder if new illustration mag Dangerous Ink [ via ] is going to aim for being a British version of Juxtapoz . It would be cool if they were, because it would be great to have a magazine that focussed on that sort of art and design from a British perspective instead of an American one, for a change. Nude is getting there but it's trying to cover more bases so there's not as much depth...

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