THE SKINNER

A boy was badly injured his morning because he shot in front of a car on his wheeled trainers. Questions are being asked. A&E doctors t...

On Monday when I walked outside to get on my bike, it was like a spring morning. Today, despite the frost outside, the temperature is set to...

Here's something our very own Cameron put together: Cameron Dadd is an eighteen-year-old freelance graphic designer who lives in the mo...

Apparently there’s a million cars on Britain ’s roads without road tax discs, which usually means they are without insurance or MOTs. Some p...

Hah, I wonder how many of the people refered to here are members of the BNP: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070124072328.htm

Not only do I love this sort of stuff, developments like this are pretty damned important: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070...

Fuckit! I've discovered music videos on You Tube. Um, might not be much writing done for a little while.

Here's an excellent piece of computer history.

Paul Swan’s post reminded me: Some years ago great excitement ensued when Tor US received a query from Blue Train Entertainment about the f...

Well, I managed to sit through the first episode of series 3 of Battlestar Galactica, but only managed to get three-quarters of the way thro...

As Mark Croucher has pointed out, there's a copy of The Parasite out on eBay at the moment (there were two, but he snaffled the other o...

Well, it seems a regular visitor here is climbing that rickety ladder into the publishing world. Congratulations to Bob Lock for getting his...

Charlie Stross has made a few pertinent observations about man-made global warming and the hair shirt environmental hysterics amongst us. H...

Y’know, the personal computer is a wonderful tool but, if you don’t exercise some self-control, it can also turn into an infinite sponge for...

Okay, enough of the ranting and back to some writerly stuff. I’ve been wracking my brains with Line War looking for a satisfactory conclusio...

Fuck shit cunt bollocks and buggeration gets the swearing out of the way. In the weeks before christmas Max started having epileptic fits ag...

Now, I’ve always ascribed to the dictum ‘use it or lose it’. If you don’t use your muscles they become weaker and if you don’t use them at ...

Okay, Maynard1977 has asked me if I’ve got any more books coming out, so I’ll sum up where things are so far. My (available) books thus far ...

What is it now? Six out of ten crimes are now drug-related. Knowing that the police now regard something like a playground row to be a ‘cr...

I found this on the Dawkin’s website courtesy of a comment by one Sancus: “The association of modern atheism with Stalin and Mao has lo...