- The Secret Mansion (with images, tweets)
Baron Hill on Ynys Môn, abandoned since WW2.
- Obama, Marshmallow Cannon Creator Joey Hudy Pose For Science Fair Pictures
Fantastic videos of airguns in the White House.
- Dear brilliant students:
Why you should not do a Ph D.
- The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012
Some of these are hilarious.
- BBC News – Norway goat cheese fire closes tunnel
“This news item contains the words ‘Norway’, ‘goat’, ‘cheese’, and ‘fire’.” – Dominic Green
- Up-Goer 5: Social Justice Edition – Ozy Frantz’s Blog
Privilege: Some groups of people get bad things other groups of people don’t get.
- Seven EU myths you should never believe
The ‘Thatcherite free-marketeer’ Polish foreign minister: “Even your cooking has improved.”
The films from the sixties you mention are all musicals (including Oliver!) and adaptations from stage musicals. I guess that’s another reason for them being so well known: the music had already hooked itself into the common conscience.