Nice photos, terribly written article. See the comments section for many corrections. I’ve been to Cheddar Gorge and a couple of other caves in the UK, and in Majorca. Link

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OK so spiders are my favourite strange thing to randomly post on, critter-wise, but crabs must be a close second. I used to crab with my dad in Wales and we’d sometime find huge crabs, but nothing as big as these; and those Coconut Crabs are amazing. I want one! Huge Crab, Coconut Crab, and [...]

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Oh airships, why did you never become the default way to travel? Oh, yeah, explosions. I get the feeling that if this had gone through we’d have been seeing a lot more of those explosions … Floating Mooring Mast Proposed as Way Station for Airships CONVINCED that battle fleets of the future will require the [...]

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I love these huge free ebooks that come out where one geek imparts the depth of knowledge that only geekery allows. This time it is for Star Wars: How exactly did George Lucas develop the script for the first Star Wars? Why were the prequels so uneven when the originals were so good? Did he [...]

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20. Max (Black Hole) 19. Metal Mickey (TV Series) 18. Gort (Day The Earth Stood Still) 17. The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant) 16. Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet) 15. Johnny-5 (Short Circuit) 14. Data (ST: TNG) 13. Maria (Metropolis) 12. ED 209 (Robocop) 11. C-3PO (Star Wars) 10. MechaGodzilla (Godzilla) 9. Roy Batty (Rutger [...]

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Woo. I wouldn’t want one of these but they are really cool. Just when you think plushy creations can’t get more weird, here comes a macabre soft toy creator in the UK who recreates roadkill. Currently you can choose from Twitch the Racoon or Grind the Rabbit complete with toe tags, tyre marks and cute [...]

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Arg arg arg. No, not hot coffee in the lap again, but seeing the same post on so many different sites. Take for example these animal silluettes on boing boing, neatorama, productdose and cribcandy. That’s just a quick example of how the same thing will spread across big sites that really shouldn’t be repeating each [...]

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Create online checklists with checkser. When you’ve made them, share them out for others to use. I’m something of a checklist fan, so I appreciate this website, even if I’m late to the party. So what checklists already exist? Setting up a blog Facebook Closure Moving Home Self Management Divorce Cosplay How to review a [...]

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