Take 1 oz. each of vinegar and staveacre, 1/2 oz. honey, do. sulphur and 2 ozs. of sweet oil. Make into a liniment and rub the head with it.

Red Pepper | Know your enemy | Clear Channel: End of Glastonbury? Fiona Osler Little brother Dov pointed out in the comments that Clear Channel aren’t the nicest of companies, so I thought I’d post the link. Turns out they are quite spectacularly nasty; I hope our new chief doesn’t bring their morals with her…

Affectionate Diary: Industry Interview – Dan Griliopoulos: “Let’s talk about your feud with the wonderful, fair and just Jon Hicks for a moment, if we can. We all know about your famous public spats, but when did it actually all start? And did you *really* say you wanted to **** his *** with your big…

Nine parts of well-dried and finely powdered chlorate of potash, mixed with three parts of finely powdered galls, will make a highly explosive compound. Do not mix it in a mortar, as it would explode, but by means of passing through a brass sieve. The strength of common gunpowder may be increased by working up…

Action Philosophers! A bit like the excellent Freud comic in Kieron’s Commercial Suicide anthology mixed with those cartoon books I remember from public libraries that explained key individuals through the medium of bad drawings, this is edutainment in its finest form. I still prefer Martin Rowson‘s reinterpretation of Tristam Shandy (better than that awful movie…