Fuel crisis

It’s cheaper to fill your tank with black truffle oil than with bear attack deterrent, and Hot Hooters Booby Oil is even better value.

LibraryThing

No way I’m doing this: isn’t anyone else embarrassed about still owning physical books?

Bang

I rather enjoyed this bang site and was disturbed to find out that “splog” is now generally taken to mean “spam blog” instead of “Spanish blog”, as it does here.

Huus

I want to live in this.

Much ado about mutton

I blog pseudonymously in a couple of other places in order to be able to write with more freedom. The other day I was about to start a blog about litigious sheep when I suddenly realised that it ain’t what you sue but the way that you suet. So I melted them down and started…

Fish in boots

Re the Suspended-load Backpack generator: “The biologists came up with the idea after studying how fish move.” Is this some kind of anti-creationist joke?

Pyrenean fiestas & walks

Check out Jayne over at Pyrenean Notes, who’s plugging the fiesta in Plan, up in the Huescan Pyrenees, and writing about other interesting stuff like mountain walking.