So cheers Develop, and SE; you’ve made 7-year-old-me super mega happy. (Adult me is pretty chuffed, too.)

Big congrats to everyone else on the list – a ruddy talented bunch: Develop’s 30 under 30, 2012

Quite pleased with how he turned out, although I did get sent this link to PETA’s rather horrible MARIO WEARS FUR SO IT MAKES WEARING FUR OK game, so along with the pride there is now the Guilt.

I also had a few requests: @hemmysphere wanted a portrait, @dogwinters wanted Michael Jackson, and @wesayso was after a big pixel (with instructions).

THEIR WISH WAS MY COMMAND.

Killing two mosaic-birds with one mosaic-stone, the portrait of thriller-era MJ came out ok, apart from looking a bit jaundiced.

Spent hours doing that flipping big pixel, though.

Definitely going to do some more – feel free to make requests. I might start sticking them to canvas frames so they’re a bit more display-able. The slightly palette-swapped Sonic (yellow!!) was just laid out on our coffee table, so I had to dismantle him, but ‘Get A Life’ is stuck to some card with glue dots. Given a sturdier backing underneath I’m pretty confident he’ll hold up to a new life as an ORNAMENT.

Victory chiptune beeping noise.

You can read the whole supplement here. Big congrats to everyone who was featured.

LOOK AGAIN. Duncan is the kind of wizard I wish existed in my books when I was a child. I also like a lot of the other wizards in wizarding week, especially Dan’s Merlin.

Finally, you should read People I Know if you don’t already, as it’s very funny.

After several hours of recording, laughing and talking a lot about our mums, I didn’t envy Dan the task of editing it down to 45 minutes. Somehow he managed it (the mums bit got cut, though) and it’s turned out very, very funny.

We chatted about apps, memes, twitters and bus maps, and at the very end reveal insulting nicknames from our childhoods (ooh). They are lovely for letting me come and play. Thanks guys!

Listen to it here: Binaural curious… ?, then subscribe and listen to them ALL.

Go on.

I dare you.

Q: Why did the penguin go on a seafood diet?
A: To get fin

Q: Why do penguins always look like they’re wearing tuxedos?
A: Because dinner’s always a-fish-shoal.

A few days ago I got THIS email:

The funniest jokes of the year!
You entered the McVitie’s Penguin jokes competition and told us your best penguin joke. We were sent so many hilarious jokes that we have decided to reward some of the best ones with a prize. You’ll be pleased to know that we thought your joke was so funny we would like to award you with your very own WWF Penguin Adoption Pack!

So I didn’t get my joke on a biscuit (boo), but I did get a lovely stuffed penguin (yay). It arrived today, and I’ve already thought of a name.

Pengwin.

Some people are doctors, farmers, human rights activists, etc - contributing usefully to the sum of human knowledge and existence in thousands of ways.  Instead, I wrote a pun every day in 2010, and here’s #punliners 334 to 365:

1st – 31st December

“I wish I could draw a set of four aces… wow thanks!” – Djinn Rummy

Apparently eating a load of condiments before battle makes soldiers braver. Hence the expression, “he mustard up his courage”.

Got fired from making appetisers that walk straight into your mouth. They’ve given me my marching hors d’œuvres.

Q: If you have two chickens, and I take one chicken away, what do you have? A: A poultry sum.

I test the Queen’s food for poison in exchange for exemption from tax. It’s dangerous, but there’s no accounting for taste.

I’m a vintage red, she’s a sparkling white – can we ever be together?! I guess the corks of true love never did run smooth…

One moment – I just need to find someone to look after my pet panda. Bear with me.

At first I thought he was wearing a pheasant-shaped shoe, but it’s actually part of his body! Watson, the game’s afoot!

Disapproving elephants. Tusk tusk tusk.

Just heard a long speech about endangered mammals. It did tapir off a bit at the end.

Remember when they offered to let us go camping on their field again and we said no? They’re really having re-tent shun issues.

Lions eat things roar.

Do your bit for the environment – leave your wine bottles outside, sit back and let nature take its corks.

Never judge a calculator by its casing – it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

Ever used a putter on a sheet of silica glass? Nothing compares to a quality golf quartz.

I had severe back pain until an Egyptian farmer ran me over. If you’re also suffering, I can recommend a good Cairo tractor.

PRINCES: when you suddenly become King, don’t worry – it’s normal to feel a bit throne.

My skin tone is a very vivid sort of reddish-orange. My mum says I’m one in vermilion.

Can’t think of a way to describe people who, after some thought, talk rubbish. Give me a minute, it’s on the tip of my tongue.

“Just got bitten by an insect.” “Flea?” “No use running, it’s already happened.”

“Captain! Land ho!” “Shore?!” “Pretty positive…”

I ate a binary pony and now my throat’s feeling a bit horse.

As I leaned in to kiss my date she dropped a block of dense, soft metal on my foot. I think I was being lead on.

My ambition to create a softer tartan for Scottish clans sometimes seems futile. Ah well, no use sighing over kilt silk.

I refuse to modernise my music collection, and that’s vinyl.

My party trick is singing a pop song while lifting a heavy bit of wooden furniture – carry-oaky.

“Wotcha Zeus!” – ancient greets

HIP HOP FANS: Want to separate out the sample from the rest of a track? You need a centrifugee.

Tadpoles find TV absolutely ribbeting. It can seem like they have an idea what’s going on, but really they haven’t the froggiest.

Scottish girls on the pull are always tartan about.

I’ve got a dangerous addiction to writing puns. When I think of one, I gag. (It’s beyond a choke)

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Pun. Done.

See also: Ed Sheeran