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After a hard day's work, a hot shower with an ice cold beer

BBC In our timehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot/allis pretty good, covering fairly random historical topics with a well informed panel which varies from week to week. They're not all gems, but most of them are interesting.

Finished this today and would thoroughly recommend it. Good, pacy plot and a fairly decent ending for a King - I found it hard to put down.

Started reading this yesterday and am already about half way through - hard to put down... Feels a bit like the King of old, which is good to see. There's a lot in there that I can relate back to some of his other books, plot and character wise, but all in all a great read so far. As for the...

Amen! Works a treat for me.

Not sure what to make of this - I found a few of his more recent books unreadable (11.22.63 being the exception) Having said that, I know I'll be giving this a try...

Here's a thought: how about making TWD something approaching watchable and not snooze worthy before pumping cash into a spin-off? Having said that, it'll probably be a hit because it'll be 'new', 'fresh' or 'take the story in a new direction'. People are going to watch no matter what. I'll...

Australian fucking politics and the upcoming election. It's basically down to a narcissistic attention whore who doesn't really have anything to say and parades around fucking schools instead of answering any questions posed by real people and the world's most conservative stutterer, who won't...

The author of the first one, Allan Pease, has been writing about body language since at least the 80s. I read his stuff back then and found it to be pretty good. Still have a copy on my bookshelf. There's also a load of his videos on youtube if you want to get an idea of what he's about...

Some dyslexia jokes: 1. What does D.N.A stand for? National Association of dyslexics. 2. Dyslexics of the world, untie! 3. If life hands you melons, you may be dyslexic...

Ok, so I've narrowed it down to two choices: 1. Asus Transformer Prime TF201 32G Tablet with dock; or 2. Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Silver 16GB 10.1" I'm reasonably familiar with the Samsung (currently have the galaxy tab 2 7.0) so have a fair idea of what to expect, however the idea of a...

An oldie but a goodie: http://www.fukgames.com/game/17196/quake-renascence

Paper cut? Rub a chapstick over it and it'll feel better right away...

Two cannibals are eating a clown, when one turns to the other and says: 'does this taste funny to you?'

Before Watchmen: The Minutemen.

Dammit! Another one bites the dust, I guess.

Been a while and it looked like the dust had settled, but... One of the DJs, Mel Greig, has decided to sue her employer for failing to provide a safe place of work. Not sure how that'll pan out, but pretty ridiculous in any case. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainme...710-2ppbh.html

Stalin: Court of the red Tsar is a pretty good read. Also, not sure if it counts as a biography, but The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe is a great read about the early days of manned space flight.

Gotta admit, I prefer an e-reader for, well, reading... Have had a kindle keyboard for a couple of years now and still going strong.Greatbattery life and the display is comparable to paper. Also, being able to remove the lame kindle backgrounds and replace them with my own pics is a nice touch...

Just out of interest, does anyone have any experience with the Blackberry Playbook? I know there was a lot of noise about a lack of apps, but now that you can sideload that shouldn't be a biggie any more. I had a play with one a while back and liked the look and the feel of it, seemed snappy...

Couple of my favorites: Big Train and The Sketch Show - both pacy, sharp and (imo) funny. Both have a few familiar faces as well.

I stumbled across this recently and almost changed the channel thinking that Matthew Perry was going to do his usual 'could it be any more...?' shtick. Glad I stayed on it though - love this show now and think the premise would have worked for a few more seasons at least. Rumour has it that it's...

Well played good sir...

Not really Private Eye books, but I've just finished a series by Sam Eastland about Inspector Pekkala, an investigator in communist Russia. http://www.inspectorpekkala.com/ 4 books in the series, and I couldn't put any of them down; found the setting really interesting, and the author has...