The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Apart from the fact that you get mobile access to the internet, which is immensely useful. No, the really handy thing is that they massive...

When figuring out what measures will reduce costs people love to fixate on variable costs. They doubly love to fixate on variable costs that...

If you haven't been following the daily blog postings from Gary Brecher , you're missing out. Right now, it's the best thing on ...

One of the laziest rhetorical devices in song-writing is the use of the oppositional 'they'. Usually this is done in relationship so...

I was reading this article in Cracked, entitled 5 Bad Ideas Humanity is Sticking With Out of Habit . The top idea in this category, or cou...

Over at Popehat, Patrick links to the story of this guy Jack Stuef, who wrote a despicable article at the blog 'Wonkette' mocking ...

- If I were a musician, I would find it infuriating how crowds can't clap in time, but keep getting faster and faster. I find myself alw...

- In honour of this blog getting its first real troll  (with updated responses you should check out!), I give you this great article "H...

So I spent the weekend at Coachella (of which you will hear more soon). But one thing that stuck with me was how bad people are at sending t...

If you have to buy it, you're probably not 'I.' , and almost certainly not 'V.I.'.

Consent is a murky concept. No, I'm not talking about the "She may have been nearly passed out but she was totally asking for it,...

Hacker News recently linked to an interesting article on this guy who is devoting his life to learning how to become a golf pro. He had no ...

"About 50 high polluters to bear carbon tax brunt, Greg Combet tells Press Club" Politicians love statements like this. Don't ...

Here is a serious question. It's coming up to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the  TSA hasn't actually caught any t...

Evolution does not work in the way most people think. Consider the case of the lowly snail. Can you imagine a more pathetic creature? ...

Comedy gold! (In case you didn't get the joke, a SFW answer here )

The other day I saw a billboard ad for a movie called 'Arthur'. (You can watch the trailer here , but I wouldn't recommend it). ...

What exactly are married people thinking when they start an affair? I don't mean, "Whoa, I'm finally gonna get laid! That has...

The WSJ has a puff piece today talking about the benefits of Montessori school :  Ironically, the Montessori educational approach might be ...

The WSJ has an interesting piece about "short sleepers" , people who only need a couple of hours of sleep per night in order to fu...

Via Ace : The White House just called to say it was going to play the government shutdown card, despite an offer on the table to keep the g...

In The Australian recently, Greg Sheridan recently wrote an excellent long piece on how he abandoned his faith in multiculturalism. It...

As I said a few weeks ago , It is always a good rule of thumb that when people say they want one thing and consistently do another, this sho...

Working in finance is great. I find the area interesting. it pays well, and it's generally a choice of profession that I'm very happ...

The last few months have revealed a positive aspect to Barack Obama's presidency that I hadn't considered: Namely, I think it has ...

Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , the best comic on the internet (it's true, you xkcd fanboys).

AIDS vaccine in final testing "Twenty years after HIV geneticist Bette Korber first began tackling HIV, her hard work—some would say ...

Like parasites on the healthy discourse of the Queen's English, these awful expressions seem to be spreading amongst unoriginal office t...

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, bala...

It's not every day that you expect to be given a lesson in cojones by an actress who went on Big Brother and looks like this: But that...

So bad that in the time it took for Outlook Web Access to search for emails by one of my contacts (a feature that is only available if I use...

I liked this one a lot, particularly the mailing pets one.

...does not look bright, at least according to Gary Brecher. Over at The Exiled , Brecher (a.k.a. The War Nerd) is writing a post a day fo...

Behold, I give you the Patented Shylock Holmes Formula for How To Decide Where To Live. If you are allowed only 1 variable to determine wh...

I was at a museum today that has a garden section. I was going to walk around the garden with a friend of mine, but near the entrance a guid...

"Buffett Says Social-Networking Sites Overpriced Ahead of IPOs" Ah yes, the age-old social networking business model. 1. Build l...

A fantastic essay at the Atlantic about the extent to which wealth brings happiness, discussing survey data from very rich households in a ...

Courtesy of The Hammer, comes  Average Penis size, by country . Importantly, they distinguish between countries with self-reported data an...

Via Tim Blair comes this preposterous use of police resources : A SQUAD of specialist police swooped on over 20 karaoke dens in Sydney...