The Biscuiteer: Apple Snaps

The Biscuiteer goes back to school with these individually wrapped kiddie treats. But if we were kids, we'd be kind of disappointed to find these in our lunchboxes.

Beneath Our Racist Southern Cross

Do you want to celebrate Australia Day without looking like a neo-nazi or a Patagonian? The Enthusiast provides an alternative to flag-capes and Southern Cross tatts.

The Enthusiast’s Biggest Stories
Of 2009

Gaze into The Enthusiast's back end, as we reveal our ten biggest stories of the year as voted by you, via clicking and reading.

Death Of The Week: Giorgio I, Prince Of Seborga

When Giorgio Carbone decided growing flowers in a quaint northwestern Italian hamlet just wasn't cutting it, he declared the principality of Seborga a micronation and himself its ruling monarch.

The Biscuiteer: Yuletide Grand Challenge

We celebrate The Biscuiteer's first Christmas by road-testing seven different varieties of mince pie. Now we never want to eat another one again.

According To My Calculations

Like Sam Cooke, we didn't know what a slide rule is for. But we had even more to learn, for this totem of mid-century nerddom is just one of the quirks in the fascinating history of mechanical calculation.

Death Of The Week: Rusty Kanokogi

As Rena Glickman, she was a teenage New York gang leader. After impersonating a man, moving to Japan, and threatening to sue the IOC, she became Rusty Kanokogi: International Women's Judo Matriarch.

What Is What What Is?

When is an answer not an answer? When it is "It is what it is". Confused yet? That's exactly how George Bush, Britney Spears, Al Gore, Brad Pitt and countless football coaches want you to feel.