Anorak

Anorak News - Pop culture, media, sport and weirdness

24th, March 2013 Music

The Beach Boys sing without autotune

Bit pitchy, dudes... More »

24th, March 2013 In Pictures 1

Boris Berezovsky - a life in photos

What really happened? More »

24th, March 2013 Reviews 2

Boris Berezovsky commits suicide just like Gareth Williams did

How do you report on the death of exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky?... More »

23rd, March 2013 Books

The oddest book title of the year is about goblins charming chickens

The winner of the Bookseller's Diagram Prize for the weirdest book title of the year is...Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop. The blurb tells readers.. More »

23rd, March 2013 Reviews

Cat show billboard breaks pedestrian's nose

The advert for the cat show in Slovakia has surprised local woman Veronika Citatelka... More »

23rd, March 2013 Reviews

Woman jailed for hitting boyfriend with plastic spoon

The romance blossomed when the boyfriend arrived home. Hunter a nurse by trade, was preparing dinner whilst drunk... More »

23rd, March 2013 Reviews

Finnish passports works as a flick book

The new Finnish passport works as an flick book. Flick the pages quickly and see the elk run... More »

23rd, March 2013 Reviews

Daily Star weather reporting: 'March is the hottest on record'

Such are the facts... More »

23rd, March 2013 Flashback

The Hiroshima atomic bomb: the story in photos

This photo-diagram, based on diagram issued by Army Air Force on August 9, 1945, locates areas damaged in Japanese homeland city of Hiroshima by first atomic bomb dropped by U.S. Army Air Forces... More »

22nd, March 2013 Key Posts 1

22 cats that look like pin-ups

Cats that look like pin-up girls... More »

22nd, March 2013 In Pictures

Truth is the best policy

Honesty is the only policy... More »

22nd, March 2013 Reviews

The 105th Archbishop of Canterbury enthroned and picked apart by the Red Nose liberal elite

The Archbishop does not do balconies. His message is of One Nation togetherness... More »

22nd, March 2013 Reviews

Is Iraq worse than Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

What will be the West's legacy in Iraq? More »

22nd, March 2013 Music

Man singing for Christ makes nature run backwards

We join Singer/Songwriter Daniel Songer in a field by some trees... More »

22nd, March 2013 Reviews

If James Holmes won't confide in Allah will narcoanalysis succeed?

"He has brainwashed himself into believing he was on his own personal jihad and that his victims were infidels," a prison source told the National Enquirer... More »

22nd, March 2013 Sports

Danny Boyle: The Olympic spirit is dead

For a brief moment, a nation was united by the relief that London didn't mess up the Olympic Games... More »

22nd, March 2013 Music 1

Robbie Williams versus Britpop

Is there anything more nauseating than a white rock singer saying 'pop music is bad'? Robbie Williams wasn't impressed and returned with... More »

22nd, March 2013 Money 3

Cyprus insanity: You can trust the Eurocrats to do the wrong thing

Here's the real basic problem: banking is inherently unstable... More »

22nd, March 2013 Money 2

Amazingly, fracking is less polltuing than normal drilling for gas

Well, along one dimension it is, fracking producing much less waste water (and polluted waste water) than normal drilling for gas does... More »

22nd, March 2013 TV & Radio

The Empire Skins Up: Star Wars fans catch the Dark Side smoking marijuana (video)

The Dark Side... More »

22nd, March 2013 Sports 3

Newcastle United fans smash up Wigan Cosmos FC goals and nick match ball (photos)

It is with regret that the club has to report on the following disturbances by a section of around 250 - 300 so-called Newcastle United fans during The Cosmos South Lancashire Counties Premier Division Fixture... More »

22nd, March 2013 Politicians 4

Obama's tree for Israel gets pest tested

"A foreign trip is all about the photo ops and symbolism..." More »

22nd, March 2013 Music 1

Depeche Mode: That Was Then…This Is Now

Simon Cowell, "the baron of bland" called them "weird"... More »

22nd, March 2013 Reviews

Did Rupert Murdoch pick the Pope? (Picture proof)

The man is everywhere... More »

22nd, March 2013 Celebrities

Justin Bieber challenges Lindsay Lohan to show her tax statements

The more Anorak sees of Justin Biebers , the more we think 'He should have stayed in school'... More »