Excellent news! Joe The Plumber has a book coming out.
According to Fox News (natch) it’s going to be called ‘Joe the Plumber – Fighting for the American Dream’.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, that’s a book I’d definitely buy, if only it had a better title. And you’re absolutely right, which [...]

The other day, for the first time in ages, I checked out my Google Analytics stats. Not the page views, you understand – like my book sales figures, I really don’t want to start down that road, lest it turns me crazy.
No, rather I was curious what search terms people used to find [...]

Oops. Not twelve hours after I write a column saying that London needs its own Valleywag so, it seems, does San Francisco.

Nick Denton has decided to roll Silicon Valley’s favourite only tech gossip blog and its skeleton staff into Gawker to consolidate pageviews and weather the impending ad revenue storm.
I’m not sure how I [...]

I feel like someone has Duck Taped a truck to a baseball bat and hit me in the liver with it, while simultaniously sucking my brain out through a curly straw. The last week or so has been mental.
For a start there was 24HoursInAmerica – liveblogging the US Election for 24 hours straight, with James [...]

Huzzah! 24HoursInAmerica.com is now live.
Proceedings kick off at 1pm GMT (8am Eastern, 5am Pacific) with myself, James Aylett and Sarah Bee plus a whole host of special guests liveblogging the entire US election for 24 hours straight.
Meantime, check out 24 Hours In America TV (here, middle column) for amusing election-related videos and the like. Live programming [...]

1. The lower jaw of the badger is articulated to the upper by means of a transverse condyle firmly locked into a long cavity of the cranium. This enables the badger to maintain its hold with the utmost tenacity.
2. Some badgers are solitary, moving from home to home, while others are known to form clans.
3. Contrary [...]

I mentioned yesterday that I’m doing an exciting election thing this coming week, and that one of my partners in crime (electoral fraud?) will be James Aylett.
I never tire of telling the story of how I met James. In 2003, I was sent up to the Edinburgh Fringe by the Guardian, in the hope of [...]

One sunny afternoonm, while we were out in the Valle, Rob wandered out on to the patio, looked over at me hunched over my laptop and said, quite matter of factly: “I never realised before – you actually work quite hard.”
I think he meant it as a compliment, but he does highlight a real problem: [...]