Henmania continues.

Nicole Appleton and Liam Gallagher have named their newborn son “Gene”. Not a very rock and roll name, is it? (Well, except for Gene Simmons, but Liam’s given no indication that he’s a big KISS fan.) As further indication that she’s an idiot, Appleton declared that giving birth was “easier than having a tattoo”. Gallagher,…

The EIC report on the world’s most expensive cities is out again. As I mentioned back in January, it costs a friggin’ LOT to live in London. We’ve actually moved up the list a couple of spots and overtaken New York. Interestingly, we’re now #2 in Europe thanks to Oslo jumping five spaces. I had…

Everybody’s been linking to this list of Conversational Terrorism Tactics, which also happens to be a guide to every argument that takes place in our house. Our favorites are “Lunatic Fringe”, “Selective Quotation”, and “Studies Have Shown.” (In fact, we have our own name for that last one. It’s called “Pulling a Woodroffe.”) I’ve also…

“So you want to be an online pornographer?” Actually, Snookums and I joke about this kind of thing all the time. A guy we used to work with actually had experience working for an online porn site. Everybody in the industry knows that that’s where the real money and innovation are. I mean, porn sites…

Can you juggle? I can. I had to learn to do it for a one-act play. Luckily my co-star was a jugglin’ freak, so he taught me pretty much all of it. He was also a contact juggler, which always makes me think of David Bowie in Labyrinth. (My co-star also told me that Bowie…

Brigita found a cool toy at the PBS site: Surname Popularity Index. You enter your last name and it tells you how popular it is in the U.S. based on Social Security records. “Howard” is #62 out of, like, 50,000! Yeah, baby! I got more relatives than you can shake a stick at.

AICN is running an interview with Peter Billingsley, otherwise known as Ralphie from A Christmas Story. He’s working as a producer now and seems like a well-adjusted guy. (Did you know he was on “Punky Brewster”?!) Still, it’s gotta be kinda weird to see yourself on TV for 24 hours straight at Christmas.

Reason 6,415 Why I Love Britain: The British Medical Assocation have passed a motion that will allow women access to the morning after pill free from pharmacists. Yes, free. Without a prescription. Meanwhile in the States, only 15% of women even know that such a pill exists. And even if a woman did know, is…

Whatever happened to broadband? Seriously. Snookums and I have been waiting for AGES. BT sucks.