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Every so often I wish out loud that there was a nice way of formatting blog posts so you could print them out as a little magazine. You could then read them on the bus or the bog and leave them behind for someone else to find.

It looks like with its Tabbloid service, Hewlett Packard might have cracked it. You give it a blog’s RSS feed (or several), your email address and a delivery time and it sends you a daily and nicely formatted PDF of that blog’s posts. A little jiggery-pokery at this end to trim out the stuff that doesn’t translate to paper – like Twitter feeds – and it could be a very nice little toy.

(Via Warren Ellis)

I know this is going to sound frightfully priggish but am I the only one utterly unamused by the myriad Downfall parodies out there? Have the people who clap like seals whenever a new one is produced actually seen the film? I’m tempted to make one myself for the day Thatcher dies – we’ll see how funny some of these dicks think it is then.

Why hasn’t someone made a parody based on the scene in the film where Magda Goebbels murders her six children? (‘There was evidence, in the form of bruises, that the eldest child, twelve-year-old Helga, had awakened and struggled before she was killed.’)

You know, just for a laugh.

Ernest being earnest…

If this is true, I know of a few people who are effectively immortal…

(Via The Yorksher Gob)

Just what tickled my fancy between June 23rd and June 27th:

• Celebrity Grandma's Footsteps –
• TELEVISION TO BE CONTROLLED BY 200 LATENT HOMOSEXUALS – The Daily Mash –
• George Carlin: You Are All Diseased – An hour well spent

Just what tickled my fancy between June 19th and June 21st:

• Futurama: clip of 'Beast With A Billion Backs' – Let's face it, it couldn't be any worse than 'Bender's Big Score'
• May the force be with them: Prince Charles as Yoda and gloomy Gord as the Emperor in the great Star Wars makeover – This has got to be some of the worst photoshopping I've ever seen
• The song they didn't write? Coldplay are accused of plagiarism by American band – There *are* marked similarities between Coldplay's song and the Creaky Boards one: they're both unmitigated, insulting, turgid shite.
• FAIL Blog – Fail and Epic Fail Pictures and Videos – This, via Graham Linehan, rocks my world

Just what tickled my fancy between June 17th and June 18th:

• Warren Ellis » A Good Clean Fight – Republican badges. Nice.
• The Political Scene: One Angry Man – Profile of Keith Olbermann in the New Yorker

Just what tickled my fancy between June 14th and June 15th:

• Your groove for today is… – Masterplan
• Can Lembit have his cake and eat it? Er, no – Marina Hyde is ace.

Just what tickled my fancy between June 12th and June 13th:

• The end is nigh… – The four horsemen of the cultural apocalypse and their two attendants…
• The Weblog of Austin Mitchell: Flipping Forty Two – 'I voted with the government on 42 day detention. I didn?t like myself for it.' You weren't the only one, Austin. We didn't like you much for it either.
• The Daily Mash – MILLIONS PLANNING £3000 'I'M A TERRORIST' SCAM – 'With the government offering generous compensation to anyone held without charge for more than 28 days, enterprising Britons are already getting up to speed with key Jihadist phrases.'

Just what tickled my fancy on June 11th

• Your groove for today is… – Spill the Wine
• rhetorically speaking..: scorecard – 'On the basis of the last few months of media coverage, here's a quick and dirty list of those who do not support or actively oppose an extension to the detention limit for terror suspects…'
• The Curmudgeon: Don't Think Hypothermia, Think Opportunity – 'When shareholders in a bank have their profits wiped out, it's a crisis; when pensioners have to choose between cold and hunger, it's a challenge.'

Just what tickled my fancy on June 6th

• Your groove for today is… – Journey to the Center of the Mind

Just what tickled my fancy on June 5th

• Your groove for today is… – I Got The Blues. A bonus point for anyone who knows who the drummer and bassist were.

Just what tickled my fancy between June 3rd and June 4th:

• Your groove for today is… – The New Pollution
• Mark Steel: You want children to learn? Here's how to do it – 'That's quite an achievement, to be given a job of enthusing kids about a subject and then to make them hate it so much that even 30 years later they can't bear to think about it.'
• Thousands 'are forced to choose between food and home care' – Do you ever get the feeling that our 'system' isn't working?
• How the BNP shamefully tried to create a 'white martyr' – A must.
• Blood & Treasure: name a no-go area – As the man says, 'It?s money-mouth time'…
• Warren Ellis » Bending Mars – 'Is putting humans on Mars important? Yes.'
• Minister in 'British day blunder' – Clearly Liam Byrne's diary was just out of reach when he wrote his speech. Bless.

Just what tickled my fancy between June 2nd and June 3rd:

• Your groove for today is… – 'Got To Give It Up'
• August bank holiday could be celebration of Britishness – Do we need a *whole* weekend to celebrate what's great about Britain? I could do you a list in about ten minutes. Less, probably.
• Ministry of Truth » It?s nice to be wanted? – I scored 13 out of 22!
• The Daily Mash – TERRORISTS CAN HOLD THEIR BREATH FOR 41 DAYS, CLAIMS BROWN – 'An MI5 source said: "We've tried sticking their heads under water for absolutely ages. You may as well give them a cup of tea and a newspaper."'
• The Daily Mash – YOUR ASTROLOGICAL WEEK AHEAD – 'Capricorn: Be generous with your time when a troubled friend needs your undivided attention. You never know, there might be a shag in it!'
• The Daily Mash – BRITAIN NOW ENTERTAINED BY ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING – 'The BBC has now overhauled its autumn and winter schedules to consist entirely of members of the public and their pathetic attempts at tap dancing.'

Just what tickled my fancy between May 26th and May 27th:

• The Daily Mash – LABOUR UNVEILS PLAN TO LOSE LAST REMAINING VOTES – 'Meanwhile teams of Labour researchers will tour marginal constituencies, identifying Labour voters and then kneeing them in the groin or setting fire to their coat.'
• "You look like a Fool!" – I am now addicted to talking parrot videos. Expect nothing else from this blog from now on.
• Smokey says Yes, We Can! – Let's put it this way – it doesn't sound any less vapid coming from a parrot than it does from Obama
• Your groove for today is… – Tin Solidier
• FactCheck: Hazel's claim 'in shreds' – What a surprise. Is this bloody woman capable of saying anything that isn't a steaming pile of horseshit? If my kids had Hazel Blears' kind of relationship with the truth I wouldn't show my face in public.
• 'No appetite' to oust Brown as PM – Hmmm. I've no appetite for what we've got in for dinner tonight but if I don't accept it, I'm knackered. You know what I mean?
• Doctor Who trailer – Talk about writing a cheque you can't cash. If these episodes are a tenth as exciting as as the trailer makes them out, I'll have a back, crack and sack done. And the Daleks are back. Oh, joy.
• Johann Hari: This is the chance to go down with all guns blazing – This is sensible, humanitarian and, above all, simple. It will therefore, or course, never happen.
• Historic pictures sent from Mars – Hold the front page! 'The probe has sent back pictures of a flat landscape with few rocks'
• Mayor to end Venezuelan oil deal – I thought it was us Zanu-Labour Nazi socialist fascist bastard left-wingers who were supposed to hate the poor not cuddly Tories…
• Tough Tory plan for young jobless – I thought it was us Zanu-Labour Nazi socialist fascist bastard left-wingers who were supposed to have a thing for labour camps not cuddly Tories…
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Britain – Victimised Since The 17th Century – 'Damn, what is it about us Brits?'

Just what tickled my fancy between May 25th and May 26th:

• Your groove for today is… – Wack Wack
• The Daily Mash – YOUR ASTROLOGICAL WEEK AHEAD – 'Virgo: A great sense of humour is what sets you apart from the competition: you don't have one.'
• Labour chiefs tell Brown: appoint a leader-in-waiting – I'm putting away a tenner a week in case Jack Straw becomes the next prime minister. I'm going to use the money to have myself lobotomised.

Just what tickled my fancy between May 24th and May 25th:

• Iain Dale's Diary: Why Labour Are Stuck with Gordon – You know, I'm saving up all my Tories = Nazis 'jokes' for a rainy day. Maybe when Thatcher dies? We'll see how funny these right-wing gobshites think it is then.
• Your groove for today is… – dang dang de-dang, dang dang dang…

Just what tickled my fancy between May 23rd and May 24th:

• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Cameron: By-Election Victory a "Triumph for Managed Democracy" – 'Asked what the deciding factor had been in the election, Mr. Cameron was keen to focus on the bullshit. '
• A few words before we go: Crime and Punishment – A better class of graffiti…
• Blood & Treasure: side note on the slaughter – '…it should be noted that what has been comprehensively rejected here is hardline rightwing authoritarianism.'
• The Daily Mash – DO YOU NEED US TO CALL YOU A CAB? BRITAIN ASKS BROWN – Britain added: "I knew something was up when I got a text from Tony saying, 'How you getting on with Gordon? HA HA – Fuck You'."
• Your groove for today is… – Papercuts
• Matthew Norman: Courage is knowing when to stand down – Matthew Norman, Commentators – The Independent – 'A small but poignant anniversary dribbled by unnoticed a fortnight ago. It was on 6 May 2007 that the world of letters greeted the official publication of Courage by Gordon Brown…'

Just what tickled my fancy between May 22nd and May 23rd:

• Blair jet faced Israeli warplanes – A massive, massive irony that wasn't *quite* allowed to realise its full potential…
• Proof that Tories never change their spots – 'A progressive, modern party, fit for the 21st century? On this evidence, most definitely not.'
• How to be a blogging big beast… – Steal from Private Eye
• Jowell's howlers lost in Olympic black hole – '…this major Paralympics venue, with a capacity of 17,500, will currently feature just the two disabled lifts…'
• Topic Drift: A Sorry Welcome Home – Esther's moth collection destroyed…
• Your groove for today is… – I Know You Well

Just what tickled my fancy on May 21st

• Bloggerheads: UK Libel Law, the Demon Almost-Precedent and the Bastard Duke of Brunswick – 'Libel tourism is the new hotness and our milkshake brings all the boys to the yard…'
• Your groove for today is… – Think I'm In Love

Just what tickled my fancy on May 20th

• Darling retreat prompts CBI to demand cuts in business tax – Because this government has consistently refused to put out for business all these years, hasn't it? The workers live if utopia while the bosses starve…
• Bob Piper : Choice. What bloody choice! – Well said, Councillor Bob
• BBC NEWS: Doctor Who guru Davies steps down – Thank God for that.
• Tories stress need for children to have ?male role models? – Go Tories! Not content with trying to ban abortion by inches they're trying to reintroduce Clause 28 by inches as well. Lesbians, you're second class citizens. Iain Duncan Smith told me.
• Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult' – For crying out loud. What is WRONG with this country?
• Plan to oust Brown as MPs claim he has lost support – This just gets better and better. Charles Clarke? British politics is about to get hilarious. That's just what this country needs right now – a fat, petulant tool in charge.
• politicalbetting.com: Word reaches me: ?Milburn planning a challenge? – Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, stop it please. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
• Your groove for today is…. – The Old Man's Back Again

Just what tickled my fancy on May 19th

• Your revolting euphemism for today is… – 'Detention estate'
• Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies – Time to start saving for that submarine with the full complement of torpedoes…
• The Press Association: Study backs Armed Forces' Day – We can't feed you, we can't equip you properly, and your housing is shit, but here's your bank holiday. Feeling better?
• I will fight the bullies and stop late abortion – And to think we used to sneer at America for this kind of stuff. Or did Craig Brown write it?
• BBC NEWS: Taxpayer pain too much – Cameron – I see the BBC are using 'burden of taxation' without the quotation marks.
• Cath Elliot: What if it was your child? – 'If the UK media wouldn't show similar images of victims in this country, they shouldn't show them of victims anywhere else.'
• The Sharpener – …is back
• HangBitch: Emily Thornberry and 24 weeks – 'Some of us find it depressing that the Labour party is now such an ideological shambles that the pro-life drivel being peddled by the likes of Nadine Dorries can compete as a political option.'
• Gordon Brown accepts compromise over fathers to save key parts of embryo Bill – Ah, hand's up who's enjoying our enlightened times?
• Kira Cochrane on Nadine Dorries – 'extremely bleak'
• Cherie Blair Sells Film Rights to ?Speaking For Myself? – Beau Bo D?Or must die…
• Your groove for today is… – My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mamma
• Matthew Norman's Media Diary –

Just what tickled my fancy on May 19th

• Star Wars – Join the Rebellion – So what I told you was true from a certain point of view…

Just what tickled my fancy on May 18th

• The Daily Mash – YOUR ASTROLOGICAL WEEK AHEAD – 'Libra (23 SEP-23 OCT) While everyone around you is struggling along under a cloud of grey, your jovial spirit makes you totally unbearable. Piss off.'
• Your groove for today is… – Spanky Wilson

Just what tickled my fancy on May 7th through May 18th:

• Mike Power's Sunday PaperRound 18/05/2008 – Mike Power continues to make the supreme sacrifice…
• C?mon Cherie: even Goering stuck up a bit for Hitler – The first two paragraphs of this make perfect sense
• Mike Power's Saturday PaperRound 17/052008 – Inky fingers, strong constitution
• Martin Kettle interviews Cherie Blair – God almighty, Martin Kettle waited 25 years to interview Cherie Blair and this was all he got? Interesting only for her caginess about the legality of the Iraq war. If she thought it was legal surely she'd come right out and say it?
• Marina Hyde: The X Factor vision spells disaster for its intended star – 'Junior PM's producers only had to raise it with Hazel Blears for her to take it all the way to a bleeding cabinet meeting.'
• Wonko?s World : No Mandate Brown pushing for internment – The image on this blog post is copyright, ok? Juxtaposing swastikas and Labour is a sophisticated and original concept. Don't even think about stealing it, anybody. Also, from now on, David Cameron will be known as 'Dava, He-Wolf of The SS'
• Paul Staines: The Plonk – Tim Ireland reports on Britain's leading drunk, uninsured blogger
• Matthew Norman: These petty buffoons who ruled over us – 'Reading the purple prose of Lord Levy, John Prescott and Cherie, the question that continually poses itself is what were we thinking of.'
• Your groove for today is… – Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity – Indian Rope Man
• Iain Dale's Diary: Message to Ken: You Lost… – Oh, for pity's sake. Banquo *was* the ghost, you utter tool.
• Voters 'are confused by Labour' – Hand's up who's 'confused' by Labour? Surely their problem is that we're all quite the opposite.
• Milk & Cheese – I didn't know these two were still together
• Free Robert Fisk Books – Worth picking up the Indy and Sindy this weekend…
• Your groove for today is… – 'Svolta Definitiva'
• The Curmudgeon: God Shall Send Them Strong Delusion – Cardinal O'Connor, the Catholic Canute
• McCarthy Comes To The Class War – This country isn't going to get any better until the baby boomers die out, the ladder-pulling bastards.
• 10 reasons not to trust Nadine Dorries – Moral crusader? Erm…
• Ministry of Truth » Oh what a tangled web we weave? – '…we can connect Nadine Dorries to a network of Christian politicians and evangelical organisations…'
• POW! BIFF! ORDER AN INQUIRY! – And ACTION SQUAD should be in no way confused with RESPECT SQUAD. No way.
• Labour: Tough new measures to combat anti-social behaviour – Look out scallywags, ACTION SQUAD will put paid to your shenanigans…
• Gordon Brown on This Morning – Fern Britton to Brown: 'It's an opportunity for you to be a human being'. Ouch.
• Liberal Conspiracy » 24 reasons for 24 weeks –
• The Daily Mash – CANNABIS NOW WORSE THAN THE NAZIS – '…a massive increase in the strength of the drug since politicians all stopped using it…'
• A nose for Nazis – Brendan O'Neill makes sense shock. He can do it when he tries.
• Your groove for today is… – Look at him go.
• Twitter / pchallinor – The mighty Challinor is twittering…
• George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 – Have *you* read it lately?
• Liberal Conspiracy » Drugs policy: Brown fiddles while? – Read please.
• Coalition for Choice – Does what it says on the tin
• Gordon Brown – The Impression of Listening at Beau Bo D?Or – Just gorgeous
• Mark Steel: Has the real Gordon been replaced by a robot? – 'Oh no. It's got to the point where you start pitying him.'

• Liberal Conspiracy » Drugs policy: Brown fiddles while…
  Read please.
• George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946
  Have *you* read it lately?
• Twitter / pchallinor
  The mighty Challinor is twittering…
• Your groove for today is…
  Look at him go.
• A nose for Nazis
  Brendan O’Neill makes sense shock. He can do it when he tries.
• The Daily Mash – CANNABIS NOW WORSE THAN THE NAZIS
  ‘…a massive increase in the strength of the drug since politicians all stopped using it…’