Pass Notes is a regular tongue-in-cheek [1] feature in the UK newspaper The Guardian , first published in the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper i…

Tag: Pass Notes Yes folks, Henrik’s back in business, having learned from past mistakes. Learned how to replicate them exactly, that is. Haven’t I see yo…

wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 114 people, …

Pass notes No 3,032: Peta This will be the glamour model Peta Todd, presumably? Presumably but wrongly. This is Peta the animal rights group. The two are…

Pass notes I have a suspicion these things are somehow connected. This final posting on Jessica's weblog may provide further explanation: "Just took a lo…

Here, before we get going: Hit Points passed 4,000 subscribers earlier this week, a shade over two months after hitting 3,000. I love you all — yes, even …

Not familiar with it. I mostly listen to motivational CDs in the car. It's part of the Beeb's stable of digital radio stations. I'm trying to Tap the Pow…

Pass notes No 2,961: The morning suit Appearance: Not coming soon to a prime minister at a royal wedding near you. And it's morning dress, or coat, not s…

Age: Appears not to have bothered to evolve for at least six million years. Appearance: One seriously evil-looking fish. Whoa! I just did an image search…

Pass notes No 2,711: Snow What? But snow is beautiful! It creates a winter wonderland, turning everything at once innocent yet mysterious, rendering the …

How long is it? One hundred and fifty hours. That's six days. Or, if you prefer, six economy-size bags of Revels, three furtive bottles of gin, at least 1…

Aha. Clearly you are a reader who has only joined the Guardian fold within the last four years. How are you finding it, by the way? Fine, thanks. Liked t…

Pass notes No 2,868: Mumford & Sons Appearance: Waistcoats with guitars. (The guitars are also wearing waistcoats.) Family of greengrocers?Folk band. Mad…

And what's the big deal about Ferrari? A young man was killed in Beijing over the weekend when he smashed his Ferrari into a bridge, and the Chinese auth…

Journalist? Penn has written for Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation and the Huffington Post, among others. Any big assignments lately…

It's that easy? No, not quite. A haiku should also contain both a kigo and a kireji. Which are? A kigo is a reference to one of the seasons. A kireji is a…

Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks. Why …

Is the poem really so bad? As a poem, it's terrible – a manifesto masquerading as a poem. But as a plea for consistency in dealing with nuclear powers in…

Is this something to do with that conflict zone that's in the news? It is. I stopped paying attention when Sally Bercow got voted out. Who is this Mustaf…

No wonder I haven't heard of him. I'm out of work and I've got no pension. He was also the leader of the opposition once. Really? How did I miss that? We…

Nate Silver – Pass notes No 3,278 He predicted the US election with uncanny accuracy. That must be why the American right loves to hate this political st…

Your Pass notes (November 6) imply I am a magician and conjuror - but that this cannot be stated outright because I am such a litigious fellow. I can say …

Pass Notes is a regular tongue-in-cheek [1] feature in the UK newspaper The Guardian , first published in the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper i…

Tag: Pass Notes Yes folks, Henrik’s back in business, having learned from past mistakes. Learned how to replicate them exactly, that is. Haven’t I see yo…

wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 114 people, …

Pass notes No 3,032: Peta This will be the glamour model Peta Todd, presumably? Presumably but wrongly. This is Peta the animal rights group. The two are…

Pass notes I have a suspicion these things are somehow connected. This final posting on Jessica's weblog may provide further explanation: "Just took a lo…

Here, before we get going: Hit Points passed 4,000 subscribers earlier this week, a shade over two months after hitting 3,000. I love you all — yes, even …

Not familiar with it. I mostly listen to motivational CDs in the car. It's part of the Beeb's stable of digital radio stations. I'm trying to Tap the Pow…

Pass notes No 2,961: The morning suit Appearance: Not coming soon to a prime minister at a royal wedding near you. And it's morning dress, or coat, not s…

Age: Appears not to have bothered to evolve for at least six million years. Appearance: One seriously evil-looking fish. Whoa! I just did an image search…

Pass notes No 2,711: Snow What? But snow is beautiful! It creates a winter wonderland, turning everything at once innocent yet mysterious, rendering the …

How long is it? One hundred and fifty hours. That's six days. Or, if you prefer, six economy-size bags of Revels, three furtive bottles of gin, at least 1…

Aha. Clearly you are a reader who has only joined the Guardian fold within the last four years. How are you finding it, by the way? Fine, thanks. Liked t…

Pass notes No 2,868: Mumford & Sons Appearance: Waistcoats with guitars. (The guitars are also wearing waistcoats.) Family of greengrocers?Folk band. Mad…

And what's the big deal about Ferrari? A young man was killed in Beijing over the weekend when he smashed his Ferrari into a bridge, and the Chinese auth…

Journalist? Penn has written for Rolling Stone, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Nation and the Huffington Post, among others. Any big assignments lately…

It's that easy? No, not quite. A haiku should also contain both a kigo and a kireji. Which are? A kigo is a reference to one of the seasons. A kireji is a…

Appearance: Very like the pavilion from the reconstructed 18th-century Swedish manor house in Stockholm on which it is based, but smaller, for ducks. Why …

Is the poem really so bad? As a poem, it's terrible – a manifesto masquerading as a poem. But as a plea for consistency in dealing with nuclear powers in…

Is this something to do with that conflict zone that's in the news? It is. I stopped paying attention when Sally Bercow got voted out. Who is this Mustaf…

No wonder I haven't heard of him. I'm out of work and I've got no pension. He was also the leader of the opposition once. Really? How did I miss that? We…

Nate Silver – Pass notes No 3,278 He predicted the US election with uncanny accuracy. That must be why the American right loves to hate this political st…

Your Pass notes (November 6) imply I am a magician and conjuror - but that this cannot be stated outright because I am such a litigious fellow. I can say …