From The Guardian: The strange case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck pushed out the boundaries of knowledge in a rather improbable way when it was recorded by Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker. It may have ruffled a few feathers, but it…

Not much happened over the weekend, spent a lot of time helping out with the Elmcroft Associates website. Other than that, didn’t get near the computer at the weekend. Plenty of stuff to catch up on…

Great article on Wired about Wikipedia. As linked to by Ken Leebow. Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here

URL. As linked to by Buzz Marketing with Blogs by Travis Smith. Why executives should steer clear of the blogosphere By Lucy Kellaway Published: February 28 2005 02:00 | Last updated: February 28 2005 02:00 The chief executive of a…

Is now online.

IT Safe is a new site created by the UK government to keep the populace updated with IT security news. The BBC report is pretty thorough: A rapid alerting service that tells home computer users about serious internet security problems…

It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Hunter S Thompson dies at 67

The Guardian profile Kazuo Ishiguro today. Kazuo Ishiguro’s early career set a modern benchmark for precocious literary success. Born in 1954, in 1982 he won the Winifred Holtby award for the best expression of a sense of place, for his…

After The Wasp Factory, which shouldn’t last much longer than this evening, I am going to have a crack at this: Some good Palimthoughts from the ever reliable Self here.

John O’Farrell on the dearth of English players in the Premiership, following Arsenal’s all-foreign efforts this week: This week, another football landmark was reached when a Premiership team fielded an entire squad of foreign players. “What is Arsene Wenger doing?”…