Quiz Are You A Rock Bore? I got 15/35 which isn't at all surprising considering the questions...

Music Lovely article from John Peel writing in The Guardian about his favourite record: "Maybe once a fortnight, after a few days o...

Blog! Here is something you don't see every day -- a weblog with it's own radio station. Slightly North of Tomorrow is the work ...

Film In case anyone missed it (in other words in everybody) BBC One's kids current affairs programme ' Newsround ' is showing ...

Wildlife Breaking news from Alaska as biologists are chasing a Moose about the Kenai Peninsula . It seems it's a common problem that...

Music Web version of Time Magazine's special 'Music Goes Global' issue. Mostly worth a stroll if you forgive the obviously A...

Mefi Random Metafiter -- a bit like a Tardis, whoop yourself into any thread in Metafilter's past. And just like using that blue box...

Time Quiet birthday -- actually feel a year older for a change. Most interesting moment? Going for a meal with my parents. As we were l...

Me time And that brings an end to tonight's blogathon. I'm off for a few days for my birthday (tomorrow -- yes that's right, ...

Pop music Isn't Natalie Imbruglia 's new single 'That Day' fabulous? No other comment here -- it's not often I love a...

The Trains From bad to worse. A head of Railtrack (you know that company that was put into liquidation by the government) is to take over...

Journalism I've taken to reading ' Rolling Stone ' magazine each week (or whenever it turns up in the UK). Yes it's becau...

Safety The barman reeled for a moment, hit by a shocking, incomprehensible sense of distance. He didn't know what it meant, but he lo...

People Kevin Spacey hasn't spoken to the press in a while , presumably because they seemed a touch pre-occupied with trying to work ou...

Video Art I've always maintained that 'Pulp Fiction' is a great film but a terrible video. Some work doesn't survive the ...

Photography The Scottish countryside makes my heart melt -- the enormity of this natural world dwarfing humanity and it's messes. Joh...

Kids Gladys The Travelling Cow learns about The Force .

Music For years, one of Canada's leading piano firms has developed a scheme for lending their grands to music venues throughout the co...

Blogs! A quick search for weblogs written by Leeds locals and we find two which couldn't be more different. Matt is a strategic advi...

History Leeds was much as I left it. If anything it's become even more of a student city, everything seemingly geared towards a part...