I’m off out for a few pints tonight, for reasons that will be explained over the next few days. In the meantime, here is a story about a woman who impersonated her friend via email and turned down a lucrative job.

More banned books, this time in the UK. Guardian Unlimited report on the refusal of Amazon to ship a US-published book to the UK.

Signal vs Noise alerted me to a story on FOX News.com about various authorities in the USA who are trying to ban books such as Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Ray Bradbury was right: this is where it all starts folks, and it ends with a pile of books aflame.

As a follow on from the UK Crisp guide, Mr Tom Hodgkinson, of Hodgers.com passed on a guide to Biscuits.

There’s always a Scotsman dreaming up the technology that will change the world.

Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone, Robert Stevenson and his steam engine, John Logie Baird and his television (although, the USA would have us believe they invented the telly), Alexander Fleming and his Penicillin.

Then there’s Professor Deepak Uttamchandani who, according to Annanova, is developing micromachines at Strathclyde University that will beat ‘internet traffic jams’.

Come away the Scots, especially Asian ones.

I’ve been getting into the habit of recording some movies and watching them on my day off (usually a Monday). Today, I caught up with Fight Club and Mystery Men.

Fight Club in particular was worth the wait, and I’m now sorry that I didn’t go to see this film when it originally came out. It would be interesting to take part in the infamous Project Mayhem.

It’s remarkable to think that the director, David Fincher, has only made four feature films: Alien3, The Game, Se7en and Fight Club. However, he has worked in a variety of roles in some other top movies.

His new movie, The Panic Room will be out next year.

I picked up a copy of The Worst Case Scenarios Survival Handbook whilst in Florida last year, but they now have a website full of great tips on how to survive, well, worst case scenarios.

If you can put up with the annoying pop-up ads, How Stuff Works is well worth a visit too.

The Copydesk now has a new logo – thanks to young Ross Paterson. I made some small changes to Ross’ original design, but I think the logo stands out a bit more now.