Half Man Half Biscuit

Help save BBC 6 Music by getting Joy Division Oven Gloves to number 6 in the singles charts.

Thanks to this fine piece of huffduffing I’m reminded that there hasn’t been a Biscuit Friday for over four years. Consider that rectified.

It’s Friday – it must be time for a Biscuit.

Another Biscuit Friday!

It’s the first Biscuit Friday of the year.

It’s Christmas Eve, but more importantly it’s Friday and so time for a (very) vaguely Yuletide Biscuit in the form of Joy Division Oven Gloves.

Seven months late, it’s Friday Biscuit time again. And welcome to the Amazon switcher.

I love this current poster campaign from the British Heart Foundation.

Oof. Someone was in die Hundehutte last night. A quiet evening in the Earth and Stars, iChatting to Dunstan (still in San Francisco) with Andy and Jeremy, ended up an early morning in the Spiegeltent. And there’s more Biscuit for y’all.

It’s Friday. It’s time to dunk the Biscuit: My life is comfortable, But I don’t want that image for my band. Inside I’m reasonable, But I’ll make out they just don’t understand.When we don’t feel well let’s Put on some…

You won’t be hearing from me for a few days, so have yourself a terrific Christmas (happy holidays, fab festive season, whatever is PC this year) and a great New Year. And remember these wise words from the Biscuit: You moan at the snow Cos your car wouldn’t go. …

It’s Friday! Biscuit time…

Peter Paul Koch has just released QuirksMode, a huge resource exploring, explaining and working around the vagaries of browser support for CSS and JavaScript.

Before I go, it’s Friday, so once more here’s your Biscuit: Elsewhere, disturbingly, it has been reported that fret Mackeson has crossed the Pennines and formed a tribute band call the North York Doors (from the North York Moors), who go around the pubs singing…

I’ve added ‘remember me’ to blog comments. I haven’t asked, it just does it; is that bad? Anyway, with PHP, it was ridiculously easy. Set the cookie with setcookie("author",$author, time()+2592000,"/") and retrieve it with $author=$_COOKIE["author"] . …

This Easter weekend I managed to spend some quality time alone with my hi-fi and some choice vinyl. At the time I put together a list of stuff to buy – help me choose.

More Friday banter from the Biscuit: I should have just got a job on the bins. The pay’s better and I’d know some hard blokes. And I wouldn’t have to pretend That I know what rhetorical means.I could have been like Lou Barlow, But I’m more like Ken…

Friday Biscuit: A million housewives every day Pick up a can of beans and say ‘What an amazing example of syncronization.’He looked out of the aeroplane And saw the Alps way down below. His fixed his gaze upon the white terrain And he could see a portrait in…

Friday Biscuit: Out of curiosity I dug up Logie Baird And I asked him what petrified forests see< To make them all so scared. from Albert Hammond Bootleg on Back In The D.H.S.S. The website for this year’s Brighton Festival has got some thoughtful bits of…

Douglas Bowman has been busy with a nice alternative to textual images and a some research into browsers’ treatment of frames given the lack of control provided by HTML standards. The Friday bite of Biscuit: I was just sitting there Eating a salmonella sandwich, …

The Friday bite of Biscuit: Late morning, hanging ’round a trap door. Saw a girl like I’ve never seen before. I wanna make her mathematically safe. Wanna keep her mathematically safe. from Mathematically Safe on Trouble Over Bridgwater.

Some stupid fun for a Friday afternoon: Bond Films They Should Have Made. And some more Biscuit: I’ve got fur in my kettle and a film on my tea; I’m living in a hard water town. But I don’t let it get me down.[spoken] Should any man wish to make himself…

It’s that time of the week again. There’s people who can’t spell weird right, Driving ’round with thousands in the bank. But I get by; got a lot on my mind. I get by; got allotments on my mind. from Turned up Clocked on Laid off on…

It’s Friday, it must be time for the Biscuit... Does your heroin lose it’s glamour on the washboad overnight? When your mother says Don’t do it, do you crack it up in spite? Do you rob your brother’s Giro, do you talk a load of shite? Does your…

Breeze is an elegant new minimalist theme for Mozilla. Googlebar is another great add-in from mozdev (source of the afore-mentioned Checky). It’s just like the IE Google toolbar, but for Mozilla. I’m a bit of a foodie, so it won’t come as much…

Bob Wilson retired from television yesterday. I think Half Man Half Biscuit said it best: Lord, I’ve tried the best I can I’ve asked everybody in Kazakhstan but I still don’t understand Bob Wilson – anchorman.I’ve been to Kent, Gwent and…

I must admit to rather enjoying the recent coverage of Slipknot v. The Knitting & Crochet Guild, whose quarterly journal ‘Slipknot’ is causing some consternation among black-bedecked adolescent fans of the nu-metal shock rock combo. Perhaps a Google bomb is in…