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Inspired by Peter , I've shunted the "Stuff written" section from the right-hand navigation of this blog to a blog of its own ...

Ooh, I’ve known Nimbos for 10 years. There should be a celebration. But he’ll have to settle for a blog post instead. Nimbos and I both wor...

Fascinated by this news story about the oldest words in English . It’s one avenue of research by Reading University’s evolutionary biology g...

My chum Peter Anghelides is newly blogging, and today has a post about Twitter . I don’t get Twitter. At least, I don’t get what it would d...

Oh the joyous irony. While I was watching Toby’s lepidopterrific show last weekend in America, moths were busy eating my living room. We’d ...

Here are some things I've been sent in the last few days. The Dr sends this Gigapan of Obama inaugaration , where you can zoom almost ri...

Gallifrey was exhausting and brilliant and silly. Saw a whole bundle of old chums and made a great glutch of new ones. Flogged product and ...

Oh. My. God. Squeeeeeee!

Spent the day at San Francisco's fantabulous Exploratorium, and then walked from there, across the Golden Gate Bridge and into Sausolito...

The stunt wife (M.) and I were out of the apartment at half eight this morning to make our 10am boat trip to Alcatraz - see my photos of Alc...

Having a lovely time. Today's the first day we've not had rain since I got here; and I've spent all day indoors finishing rewrit...

Hello from rainy San Francisco. Out the window there is a lemon tree in the garden. To my right, D. is transforming between a mammoth, a dra...

Snowed in. There are no trains running so I can't get to work. It's like being back in Chicago . Only here we're all taking a du...

My chums at the Herald asked me and some other sage persons to write 100 words on a favourite children's book . I've chosen "Th...

(No, not kklak! ) To the Coach and Horses on Tuesday (or to a Coach and Horses , since there’s a whole myriad gang of them in London), wher...

Via BoingBoing (and Nimbos ), here’s some extraordinary, beautiful images of London from above at night (apparently a follow-up to images ...

To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, the BBC Archive have posted up a selection of incredible, brilliant and awful materials from the libe...

Stephen Fry was on the telly on Friday night discussing Kakopos . For the uninitiated, these are silly green parrots what live on New Zeal...

Here's my review of Debateable Space by Philip Palmer , as published in the BSFA's magazine Vector last month: Space pirate Flanaga...

For just 99p you can hear the first episode of my new Doctor Who play, The Judgement of Isskar . The accompanying Prisoner's Dilemma is...