HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 28 articles in category 'Misc'. Scrapbook for May Always wait for Frigid Sophie Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-05-01 02:01 Words: 215; reading time: 1 minute Simple yogurt making for complicated people What to do with leftover yak stomachs. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-02-21 07:22 Words: 2,072; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for October Balliol thickos of the world, unite! | Citizen Windsor | Neolithic Hobbits | Shellology | Pope Leo XIV blesses block of ice Posted on UTC 2025-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,843; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for September More direct democracy | The new weights and measures, part II | Switzerland — direct democracy strikes again | Poor little Switzerland – EU plays hardball Posted on UTC 2025-09-01 02:01 Words: 2,687; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for August Peening | Swiss delusion | Swiss National Day Posted on UTC 2025-08-01 02:01 Words: 2,027; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for June The new weights and measures Posted on UTC 2025-06-01 02:01 Words: 79; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for January Peter Schreier (1935-2019) Posted on UTC 2020-01-01 02:01 Words: 147; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for September The Brexit deal explained | On the rug edge | Half-baked | Dim and dimmer | Greta Thunberg: climate victim | Home page illustrations | Die Schöne Müllerin website Posted on UTC 2019-09-01 02:01 Words: 1,273; reading time: 5 minutes The pig got up and slowly walked away 7 September: 75 years since the death of Frank Crumit. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-09-04 13:23 Words: 335; reading time: 1 minute 23 May 1618: the Second Defenestration of Prague 400 years ago, the brutal start of the brutal Thirty Years' War. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-30 08:12 Words: 2,975; reading time: 13 minutes Suicide by cop in Gaza David picks up a rock and lobs it in Goliath's direction. We know how this will end. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-17 11:09 Words: 601; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-05-17 Balsamico, Swiss style Cheap and cheerful – a good Helvetian compromise. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-05 07:12 Words: 344; reading time: 1 minute 3 April 2018: Happy birthday, Balsamico! Twenty years and still going strong. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-03 09:12 Words: 1,897; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for November Don't worry, be happy | Shaping the science agenda | Diana's revenge | Peace at last | Thanksgiving | Dim and dangerous | Site changes | Distraction therapy | Still on your own Posted on UTC 2017-11-01 02:01 Words: 1,331; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for June Progress Illinois Style | Arnie's smallest audience | Dim and dimmer | Pulling teeth | Summer solstice | Trump: the first five months | North update: no hope | Steady as she goes | Jack of all trades, master of none | The art of political survival | No wheels on her waggon | Tesla – makes your hair stand on end | Hung parliament, unfortunately not properly | Swedish National Day | One proxy reconstruction doth not a denial make. Fifty-eight: probably | Smile, you're on Candid Camera | Lucky Lukens | Enough is enough | Breakfast like an emperor Posted on UTC 2017-06-01 02:01 Words: 3,931; reading time: 17 minutes Scrapbook for February Jack of all trades… | Site changes | Samoyeds | Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, reloaded | Scandi noir blacker humour | The Envy-of-the-World™, again | The madness of Prince Charlie | Scandi noir black humour | John Bates, whistleblower | Whose side is North on? | Myron Ebell at the GWPF | Sir Detail and friend | Snowflakes of the month Posted on UTC 2017-02-01 02:01 Words: 2,664; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for December Editor's note | Himmel und Hölle | Another mystery of modern life | Turning spare kids into money | Shutting stable doors | FoS website change | Testing for Microsoft | Thank you, President Putin! Posted on UTC 2016-12-01 02:01 Words: 1,481; reading time: 6 minutes The houseman's friend An illustrated guide to emptying the Gtech floor cleaner: a disgustingly filthy corner of the internet. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-09-17 14:02 Words: 505; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for August The Fall of Man, not quite | Democratic accident | Nice binary dates | Swiss birthnames in 2015 | 'Deep Insight of the Month' award | Sledghammer vs. dagger… | The official mind | Snowflake of the Month Posted on UTC 2016-08-01 02:01 Words: 1,905; reading time: 8 minutes Scrapbook for July Turkey: the choice | You ask, we answer | Two charts | Respected journalist | Hip dysplasia | Goddess | In video we trust | The chosen ones choose | Boots Posted on UTC 2016-07-01 02:01 Words: 1,031; reading time: 4 minutes Wiki-wacky Wiki-wacky-woo, I don't know you. Or much about anything else, for that matter. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-11-03 09:37 Words: 763; reading time: 3 minutes Microsoft. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways… Vista, Ribbon, Win 8, Win 10. Shall I go on? Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-11-02 09:14 Words: 1,015; reading time: 4 minutes How to lose money Desperate to lose some money quickly? Here's how to do it: buy gold. Here is the thinking person's guide for which you have been waiting so long. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-11-01 09:52 Words: 1,862; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on 2016-01-27 Wittgenstein’s disease Many people suffer from this disease in silence, attempting to hide their distress from others. A sufferer writes. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-10-16 15:08 Words: 1,025; reading time: 4 minutes Who are you calling a snob? Classical music? Let's take this outside in the car park. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-10-16 11:07 Words: 1,410; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2016-04-14 Red Burgundy – The agony and the ecstasy How to waste a lot of money and suffer much disappointment in the search for the special one. Skid Row awaits. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-10-15 15:08 Words: 1,164; reading time: 5 minutes S.E.E.D. It's only now that you find out who your true friends are. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-09-09 07:45 Words: 1,276; reading time: 5 minutes You swine! It’s a pretty horrible smell. Imagine Saturday night in the gents of the Dog and Badger, late, after every gent has been in there, and even the dog and the badger by the smell of it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2015-09-04 07:27 Words: 855; reading time: 3 minutes
