Stense has emailed me a link to a funny video on YouTube.
Nonsense
Kim Jong? ill?
Mystic Meg's advice to the late North Korean dictator.
More of a Guardian reader myself
BBC: Sun 'stops chickenpox spreading'.
Seasonal tip
If you don't like Brussels sprouts, you're almost certainly cooking them too long.
Book review: ‘Under the Sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin’
The correspondence of an unusual and gifted writer.
Cleverly, he dialled from within
A rare recording of a village peasant sprawled next to the drainage ditch reciting Captain Beefheart’s 'The Old Fart At Play'.
Prime Minister does God
Cameron says the UK is a Christian country.
Prepare to be astonished…
Video of amazing maths calculation on Countdown.
W.G. Sebald ten years on
Thoughts on WG Sebald on the tenth anniversary of his death.
Get within kicking distance and throw the ball to Jonny
Jonny Wilkinson retires from test rugby.