Lance Corporal Matt Croucher

You'll find this man's face in the dictionary next to "hero".

And "lucky".

Coffee Prices Rise

Where do you get charged £361,514.97 for four cups of coffee?

If you guessed Terminal 5 at Heathrow, you win!

Earth Hour Update

Well, I can confirm that Earth Hour was a roaring success. Within minutes of the Space Needle in Seattle (where all the power is hydroelectric!) going dark as a sacrifice to Blessed Gaia in an effort to fight global warming, Chez Szondy was hit by two degrees of frost and three inches of snow.

Any more successes like this and we'll be wrestling polar bears in August.

Update: Tim Blair calls Shennanigans.

Win for Oxford

Oxford has won the 154th boat race against Cambridge.

Here is our exclusive "boatcam" footage of the event.

The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever

Popular Mechanics looks at the most prophetic science fiction movies.



How Quatermass and the Pit missed out I'll never...

Maybe I've said too much.

Future War Tank (1939)

Not bad, but I've seen better.

Dracula

Children of the night: Shut up!

Breakfast Three Times a Day

In defence of the Great British Breakfast.

Earth Hour

It' s Earth Hour today at 8:00 PM Zulu Time, when we are all exhorted to turn off our lights for an hour to worship Blessed Gaia Save the Planet^tm.

Naturally, Chez Szondy will be participating. How? Let me put this way: If you're popping over for a visit, I recommend wearing one of these.


Update: Ha!

Anti-Terrorist Bed

For that special raving, paranoid nut-case in your life.

Filter to protect precious bodily fluids extra.

Justice is Blinkered

The full might of English law will be brought to bear against those who would make war against the Realm, Her Majesty or her subjects.

Unless the prisons are a bit crowded, in which case you get out early.

.577 T-Rex

Ow.

Pre-Edison Sound

A sound recording made two decades before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.

The only snag is that the earlier machine's recordings couldn't be played back until now, so it was a tad on the pointless side.

Vintage Science

Well worth a shufti.

Future Bus

Something tells me this wasn't thought through very well.

Vanguard: World's Oldest Spacecraft

Vanguard marks a half-century in orbit.

Still the cutest little space-grapefruit.

PHaSr

I don't know if it works or not, but it definitely looks like something Avon would tote around.

Bjørn Lomborg, Call Your Service

Introducing the "non-skeptic heretic club", whose message is, "Okay, we'll give you global warming, but don't you think it's better to spend a small amount of money on damage mitigation rather than sacrificing the entire civilised world on the altar of Blessed Gaia in a pointless effort at pulling a global King Canute?"

Lord Summerisle was unavailable for comment.

"Bugger Off" Drone Buggers Off

A story of bad engineering and even worse procurement policies.

XCOR Aerospace

A new contender in the spaceplane race promises to fly within two years.

Cool.