Boom!

"At a ship-to-ship fighting distance of about 100 yards, the ball would have sufficient punch to penetrate the oak planks of a galleon, travelling across the deck and out the other side. "
Probably (... as long as there weren't any other obstacles - like crew! - in between) but that is still quite impressive.

Whee

Chris Boote is on Mastermind! Doing well, too.
Damn, came second.

QI

That was a fantastic episode.
So, akcipitrokulo, what is "My hovercraft is full of eels" in Esperanto?

Being Human

Am I the only one who doesn't get it?

"a place where deadly grooves threatened to set the walls on fire"

Still the best line in "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" (currently on BBC4)

and I still can't decide which the best musical bit is (apart from the live performances), either the bit where they describe how the Motown groove works or when two of the Funk Brothers and Joan Osborne are doing the beginning of I Heard it Through the Grapevine on a diner counter...