We begin today with some colour science for gentlemen.

Men: If you want to be sexy, dress in red. It works for Santa and chimpanzees. It will work for you.

(Empty LA by Matt Logue.)

The UK print media often seems hysterical to us at the Big Bad Blog — and it’s good to see that we are not alone. A group of film-makers successfully hoaxed British papers by making a fake movie about urban fox hunting.

The floods in Pakistan are absolutely devastating (and you are encouraged to donate towards the relief effort), but it could be worse. There could be floating land mines in the floodwaters.