Walked around most of W1 in London, trying to find a pub showing the Rugby and nothing

Indeed, "futures passed" I like to call them.

Unfortunately I can't see flying cabs any time soon. Unless we suddenly master gravity. Anti-gravity would be a real game changer, and I guess maybe we're in the right direction with the Higgs thing.

Folks, if you've got any Play.com vouchers remember to use them soon - at some point in March they probably won't work

You know what it's like, 'I've got weeks yet!'. Only to remember the day after the 'deadline' you've got a £25 voucher... Actually, you'd probably need to allow time for shipping, and Play have been very slow in recent months!

My Inbox will feel lonely without Play talking to it every day!

Also, what to spend a £1 Amazon Music voucher on...

Resisting the urge to pre-order the new, almost certainly average, Aliens game - damn that film franchise's influence

whats the best tool or thing to use to cleanup washed up items with seashells etc on them?



this bomber gun turret bracket for example, and the other pieces which I dont want to scratch off the paint

Looking over pictures a friend's put on Facebook of themselves at a place in Thailand called Tiger Kingdom.

Lots of shots of them with tigers, rubbing their bellies, playing with the cubs. I'm talking about fully grown adult animals, here too.
So, my conclusion is that these aren't tigers. A real tiger would've ripped their faces off, let the young feed and retired for a snooze.
None of this 'lifting up a lip to show you how big it's teeth are'.
They also seem to be in some sort of chain link fenced enclosure with a brick work floor.
I bet the animals just love it.

I've been there. They are real tigers. Born and raised in captivity.

Well that's made me sad.
I've just done a little reading on the place, and they ship the animals off around the world to zoos. So they don't really get a natural upbringing at all.
Poor tigers.

They're better off than the ones that get shot for their skins and to be made into chinese medicinal products. Which happens depressingly often still.

Ideally, we'd like to keep all animals in their natural environment. Realistically, with certain animals, leaving them all in their natural environment is a recipe for the extinction of the species. Zoos are sometimes 'the lesser of two evils'. And, to be fair, there are zoos who go to great efforts to produce as realistic an environment as possible.

Having said that I'm very much against animals being used as entertainment though, which is what Tiger Kingdom sounds like it is. They may claim to be part of the conservation movement but that's patently not what they're about. There's a world of difference between a proper zoo and that kind of thing.

Preaching to the choir Jon - I used to work for Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Desperately avoiding all the spoilers for the end of Fringe.

Mark

That Argos have a new book out (apparently), and that they're always useful in work...

That we need a good video games show, possibly hosted by Charlie Brooker late at night. Or, you know, an even more eccentric GamesMaster in that sort of slot.

Christ, you'd only have to make the news section worthwhile to get people watching it. Throw in a challenge bit with a company promoting it's latest game or something... A retro bit, including those atrocious ads Sega and Nintendo used to do

The poor man outside fixing our oil heating