Saturday Morning Post

Dang! I've backed myself into a corner by constraining Sunday Miscellany into alphabetical order. But there's all kinds of interesting shite which I cannot shoehorn into an A is for Aardvark box [which see tomorrow]. First, it seems that I've finally passed the half-million pageviews:

although I don't think that means anything much because it is impossible to parse out real human readers from a swarm of bots which are trying to persuade me to sell The Blob to MegaCorp's advertising wing [sod that, mates].

• The redoubtable crap-detecting Steve Mould on temperature. prev: on dyslexia
• for the centennial weekend that's in it, BBC checks out some facts that everyone knows about WWI that just ain't so.
• Why you should wear safety glasses in the lab [trigger warning tomatoes]
• Mortice tenon log house
• Throwing an axe for bigg[in]ers.
• Music
• Hillary Klug - Cotton-eyed Joe
• Отава Ё - Про Ивана
• Michael D rockin' in the Dáil
• Monster waves at Nazaré
• Moving book stock by human chain
• Twin toddlers burn midnight oil
• Politics of privatizing railways (UK edition).
• Women i/c the UK navy