Audible - Brendan McKenna

Game shows are very rarely entertaining but QI is constantly entertaining and impressing me.

It’s a 26-year project, each series dealing with a different letter of the alphabet, and this is the one that started it all off. Here is an avalanche of askings on astronomy, anteaters, apples, Africa, aeroplanes, atoms, antelopes, anchovies, Antarctica and Azerbaijan - all of it absolutely astonishing to Alan Davies (QI’s resident loser and Stephen Fry’s favourite stud-muffin).

If you can love English comedy, Dry Wit and sarcasm, as well as picking up fascinating facts, join me in watching some clips by clicking here for the reults page from AOL Video Search(surprisingly good results), or clicking on these individual links:

• Two minute Christmas Episode Clip giving the true origin of Christmas
• Eight Minute Clip with Jeremy Clarkson
• The first ten minutes from the first episode ever

Based on these videos you’ll see why Alan Davies is on my Desert Island list of Comedians along with the Incredible Steven Colbert.

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Turns out its nothing too shady thats resulting in my blog being listed under Ignorance on technorati! Just my dim wit that failed to realise I’m tagging some articles on my blog ‘General Ignorance’, its a play on the term ‘General Knowledge’ created by the Game show ‘QI’ (Quite Interesting) (a play on IQ).
I posted something under this tag the other day and technorati rightfully filed it under Ignorance, Maybe I should change the tag to General Knowledge but I’ll leave it as is for the moment.

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last week, entitled ‘100 Subjects you need to know about’.
Comprising one page primers on Dostoyevsky, Miles Davis, The American Civil War, it was essentially shortened wikipedia articles on 100 subjects that its authors decided were pretty good to know about. Its a good book and certainly a great coffee table book for learning a little about something like Aztec civilization or Baroque Art.
Of course, we already have the ultimate edition of this book in Wikipedia ,which gives brief primers followed by encyclopedic information about topics ranging from Aardvarks to Zebras. The great bonus of wikipedia is that its always growing and so contains

• (a) up to date information and
• (2) articles on brand new and radical things like Dooce and Zooomr

With the power of wikipedia and my incredible push button skills, I’ve added a new section to the blog, its more important (at the moment) than ‘Top Albums’ so I’ve placed it above ‘Top Albums’ and its called ‘Essential Reading’, its a list of links to topics that I’ve just discovered and realised are something to be aware of. Even though we can easily go to wikipedia and grab these articles anytime, I visualize a list there in about ten years of subjects that might prove useful to a kid.

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