[A New Zealand farmer was ordered to consult a worm psychologist to see if his composting worms were traumatised](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/16/2120077.htm). At no possible point during this story could the…
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[What would happen if a watch mated with a scorpion](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/12/buggin-out-more-arthropoidal-watchworks.html). Beautiful stuff (in a certain way), and reasonably priced too...
[And tops the box office](http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2008-01-21/film/1). This is turning out to be a love it or hate it film so far. But I have to say that (to date)…
[A graphical history of the Batman logo](http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/09/14121.html). (That was the Batman theme, in case you were wondering).
[Two mathematicians explain those traffic jams which seem to happen for no reason](http://www.physorg.com/news117283969.html). A nice bit of analysis, but I kinda thought this one had been solved years…
[Ten tips to make eating and drinking easier](http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-food-and-drink-hacks-327267.php). I particularly like the coke can cooling trick. I think I'll try that later today...
[The first 30 pages of Muirhead's Guide to London, 1928](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/18/muirheads-london-gui.html). Interestingly, the guide suggests tipping of 20 per cent, which is quite a bit more than the [current…
[Forgotten films of great directors](http://dailyfilmdose.blogspot.com/2007/08/he-directed-that.html). Most of these are pretty good films, of course. But not the kind of thing the director usually made.
This weekend I went to see the new movie from JJ Abrams, [*Cloverfield*](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/). I went in with fairly low expectations - I enjoy monster movies, but don't really…
[Conmen in India set up a fake Government office to collect money](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/12/faux-indian-gov.html). Taking the 'taxation is theft' thing a little too far, I think.