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…

Future slumps after H1 loss, CEO leaves “LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – British magazine publisher Future Plc (FUTR.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said it swung to a first-half pretax loss on Tuesday, warned future profits would fall and said its chief executive had resigned, sending its shares tumbling 13 percent. Future, which publishes more than 150…

Consult Me Originally uploaded by Hot Grill. I’ve just started a new site, essentially plagiarising this amazing book from 1866 I found in Bakewell market “Consult Me For All You Want To Know.” With information ranging from how to select meat, to cures for cancer, to explosive compounds, it’s amazing. Have a read.