18th, February 2014
Film
A LOT of people make a lot of films, but sadly not all those films have kick-ass theme songs. This is a crying shame – AN ENORMOUSLY CRYING SHAME – because in an ideal world every film ever made would either begin or end (ideally both) with a song (not an instrumental, they don’t count) sharing a title with the film in question. Filmmakers, heed this advice. Why? Why, you say? Well… More »
18th, February 2014
Reviews
4 ONE day after the Daily Star reported "EDL to target Legoland after Muslim HATE preacher hires park for day out - LEGOLAND has been slammed for hiring out the theme park to a hate-filled extremist preacher", the Daily Express chimes "Far Right targets LEGOLAND after park hired by Muslim cleric for kids' HALAL fun day"... More »
18th, February 2014
Technology
THIS all sounds good: Apple Wants The iWatch To Predict Heart Attacks. “What if your wristwatch could tell you that you were about to have a heart attack? You’d be able to chew some aspirin to prevent it. You’d be able to call 911 and get the ambulance on the way. You’d be more likely to survive. Perhaps a large portion of the 600,000 people who die of heart disease every year — would not.” And "for the first time, scientists have created human lungs in a lab -- an exciting step forward in regenerative medicine, but an advance that likely won't help patients for many years." Are human being becoming cyborgs? More »
18th, February 2014
Reviews
CAN cannabis counter AIDS - and not just the cachexia, nausea, and neuropathic pain... More »
18th, February 2014
Flashback
IN this study of 1970s life, we look at Peggy Treadwell's The Working Couple's Cookbook (1971). In the go-ahead 1970s of free love and wife swapping parties, the book was aimed at not only wives and husbands but "roomates, soulmates, playmates, or wedded mates"... More »
18th, February 2014
Reviews
THAT'S a huge pooh down the toilet in Scotland. It's a massive Winnie the Pooh teddy found lurking in Scotland's sewers last year... More »
18th, February 2014
Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak's look at the missing child in the news. The Daily Star leads with the news "MADDIE COPS AT WAR". Has the UK finally fallen out with Portugal, her oldest ally?... More »
18th, February 2014
Flashback
UPON the success of Scooby Doo, a flood of imitations appeared on television screens, all containing the same basic template. This wouldn’t be worth talking about if the formula wasn’t Xeroxed with such wild abandon... More »
17th, February 2014
Reviews
1 THE Associated Press delivers a cracking headline about the Pope. It's gonna be a massive weekend, guys... More »
17th, February 2014
In Pictures
NIGEL has transformed a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka into a human head an face. Scotland-based Nigel obtained a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka and created a face... More »
17th, February 2014
Flashback
8 ON Tuesday, February 25, Monsters: The Complete Series will be released on DVD. For those who may not remember it, Monsters (1984 – 1988) was Laurel’s second TV horror anthology after Tales from the Darkside (1984 – 1988), and -- much like its more well-known predecessor -- it was crafted on an extremely low-budget... More »
THIS amused me: the new wristbands containing all sorts of lovely electronic gizmos to aid in monitoring your health actually make you ill. Fitbit, the company that makes them, apparently forgot about how you've got to be careful of the nickel content of something that you're going to put onto a human being who then starts sweating... More »
17th, February 2014
Flashback
2 an you make it through all ten? Bear in mind, these aren't "so bad they're good"; they're "so bad they cause cancer". In fact, the selection chosen from a variety of countries to soften the blame on any one nation. Before beginning, we recommend you have the phone number of a good therapist close at hand. Good luck to you... but don't say you weren't warned... More »
17th, February 2014
Film
TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of the original release of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, inarguably the best time-travelling-slackers-in-a-phonebox movie ever. Here are nine wholly unnecessary but non-bogus knowledge-bombs... More »
17th, February 2014
Celebrities
Who says you need pro photographers..? More »
16th, February 2014
Books
THANKS to the digitisation and Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, we can browse scrapbooks about the great Harry Houdini (1891-1926). The University has owned the archives since 1958. But now they're on the web, and free to view... More »
16th, February 2014
Flashback
ON this day in - February 16, 1959: Dr Fidel Castro, 32, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba. The seven-year military rule of President Fulgeneio Batista had ended when the corrupt autocrat fled on January 1, 1959. In 1975, he died in exile in Spain... More »
16th, February 2014
Music
DOES all art aspire to the condition of music? Brazialian musician Hermeto Pascoal plays Música da Lagoa... More »
16th, February 2014
Sports
Rich footballer to get richer... More »
16th, February 2014
Film
IN 1967, the Us Government taught the men How to Succeed with Brunettes. Produced by the US Navy, the film was aimed at the officer classes. Never agin would they fail in the brunette etiquette tests... More »
16th, February 2014
The Consumer
1 Because hands are made for eating.... More »
16th, February 2014
In Pictures
THE Anorak’s pictures of the week brings you the very best images over the past seven days from around the UK and the rest of the world... More »
16th, February 2014
Strange But True
TO Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, where a woman has been badly burnt by an exploding toilet. The a methane gas explosion caused by the lack of ventilation and dirt of a Barcelona bar toilet. When the woman sat down and turned on the light, the spark triggered methane gas in the toilet to explode. The blast was made worse because of the pressure. More »
16th, February 2014
Celebrities
Gravity powered babes... More »
15th, February 2014
Fashion
4 When Scott Schuman published a picture on his Sartorialist fashion blog of a homeless man in New York, he called it "NOT GIVING UP"... More »
