Missing Nutcracker? Have a Cher Dumollet singalong
I’ve been looking for this for ages, a rendition of the French children’s song Bon voyage cher Dumollet, the contredanse-like bit in Act 1 of The Nutcracker which is usually…
A fat lot of good ‘choice’ is….
You know it when you see it, but how hard it is to come up with it yourself: a bank of data just sitting there on a plate (literally, in…
Information is beautiful is beautiful
If, like me, you are an Edward Tufte fan, and like nothing more than to see graceful and meaningful illustrations of data, you’ll love Information is Beautiful. Hard to know…
More chatroom improv man
For those who enjoyed the last post, this is awesome – same thing, but in front of a live audience!
All hail Lizzie & Sarah
Nice to see the Guardian berating the BBC for failing to make a big enough noise about one of its best writers and comedians, Julia Davis, and for putting Lizzie…