Scrabulous

Scrabulous is back on Facebook, though it's renamed to Lexilous (or similar) and has 8 letters.

I'll admit to being a little OCD on scrabble, I like it and I'm good at it - not the least because I learned the two letter word list a loooong time ago.

It's quite amazing how much harder the game is when you have one extra letter. All the bingos which usually fall into place fail me utterly.

Nevertheless, I battle on. Mr Zero, it's your go.

Underwear in videogames

This article is an interesting look at the sheer (ha ha) ridiculousness of female underwear in video games

Most amazing (real) thing on the internet...

This is probably one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

(ignore the crazy commentator near the beginning).

I couldn't even begin to imagine being that strong or that flexible!

Women and the Olympics

I have long been tempted by motions which would basically read "THW sanction countries which practised gender apartheid" but gut instinct tells me that you'd get one good room and 9 rooms which dissolved into model bashing.

We - rightly- condemned South Africa for the state's oppression of the non-whites living there. Why on earth do we find the situation in KSA more acceptable? Is the oppression of women so commonplace that it does not merit comment?

This alternative, of banning countries from the Olympics if they did not let women compete, is far more attractive.