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No, I haven’t heard of it either.  I was flipping around Youtube watching some Top Gear clips when I happened to see a Jeremy Clarkson video of a documentary called “The Greatest Raid”.  I started watching, and boy was I glad I did.
The Greatest Raid was essentially a suicide mission of British Commandos on the [...]

So I signed up to receive Twitter alerts from the Queen and noticed that one of the things they’ll be doing shortly is going ‘Swan Upping‘ this week.  Great, wtf is swan upping?

Apparently about 800 years ago the Monarchy declared ownership of all untagged Mute Swans on the Thames.  Every year these Swan counters go [...]

Just watching this ad makes me want to go back. Soon…
The outtake made me laugh though.

How random is this?

You might get that idea in the media.  This month I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which in Swedish was called Men who Hate Women Menn Som Hater Kvinner.  It was about some murders of women…well I won’t spoil the plot other than to say sex and murder had a pretty big role. 
Last [...]

The British military has commenced a recovery operation of British and Australian soldiers who fell in northern France but were never given a proper burial.  The remains will be recovered, sorted and a proper individual military funeral will be given for all the fallen.

One of the neat things about the web, especially online video, is that you can see ‘neat’ things from around the world that will never get covered by a broadcast network.  For example, today is May Day around the word and in Oxford this means the traditional singing od The Hymnus Eucharisticus from the Great [...]

The Queen and the PM are in talks about just that sort of idea.

Turning in his grave.

The London Times is reporting that discussions have begun on abolishing the Act of Settlement which bars Catholics from the Royal Family. There is also an effort to remove the primogeniture which find male heirs favored for the [...]