The Medium Is Not Enough
Billing itself as "officially the fourth most popular UK TV blog", there are several whimsical regulars here that could help it climb as high as number three. Our favourites are the clips from Big Train – the brilliantly funny but too short-lived sketch show from the makers of Father Ted, which featured a young, pre-Spaced Simon Pegg in the late-90s – which are being served up in weekly bite size chunks. There's also Sitting Tennant, a series of posts dedicated to David Tennant pictured "sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between"; a possibly unhealthy obsession with Richard Armitage and an analysis of opening credit sequences. All of this, plus TV news and some ahead-of-the-curve (in Britain at least) moaning about Mad Men not being as good as it used to be.
Suicide Food
Though we all know that bacon comes from pigs and beefburgers come from cows, seeing the animals we eat on food packaging and restaurant signs – especially if they're in cartoon form, wearing a bib and wielding a knife and fork – is always a little unsettling. Here, this macabre art is celebrated in all its gory but oddly hilarious glory. Take, for example, a tin of herring which features one fish smiling in delight as he pours creamy sauce over another herring – who seems absolutely delighted about the idea of being lunch. Elsewhere there's a whole section dedicated to cartoon chickens winking suggestively, lobsters waving moments before being boiled and a poster of a pig from a Bath market that appears to be a rather twisted tribute to 80s drag queen Divine.
Blog roll: Psych
Debunks the many myths and illusions we believe about ourselves.
Psychology-related video clips including a boffin discussing "memory inception during sleep" and an Australian who thinks the pursuit of happiness causes misery.
How fast food is sold, proof that women are smarter than men and why confidence beats competence.
The rap guide to human nature, booty call research and the Plastic Bertrand lawsuit.
Love, Sex, Attraction… and Science
A new penis shape theory, "hypochondriacs prefer macho men" and other sex research revelations.
Archive of New Yorker articles plus blog and book extracts.
What we learned on the web this week
Salvador Dalí had a pet anteater
Ten fake websites featured in movies
The mythology of Princess Leila's hair
Plumbers don't wear ties
Pokemon is full of filth
Nostalgia for 2002 has begun already
The most comfortablest chair ever
Where to hear some new tunes
Some things sound better in your imagination that they do in reality
Where to get lost in translation
• This article was amended on 25 August 2010. The original referred to Neuromarketting. This has been corrected.
