A false sense of security -
The real danger of social networks is complacency, not cancer, says Bill Thompson
Ryanair mulls charge for toilets -
Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it is considering charging passengers for using the toilet while flying.
Chief executive Michael O’Leary told the BBC that the Dublin-based carrier was looking at maybe installing a [...]
Even when I was a kid and had some semi-regular visits to Sunday School at our local church (United Reform you know – I’ve always been a non-conformist) I never really believed all that crap about Adam and Eve.
What? We all descended from one man and one woman? And she was made from one of [...]
I’m not one to be too fussed about being smartly dressed or wearing fashionable clothes but I do like the look of some of this “geek chic” stuff.
I’m not a 100% full-blown geek but I like to dabble. I had a ZX81 back in the day followed by a ZX Spectrum, and I’ve had a [...]
I was driving in to work this afternoon and I was overtaken by a guy in an Audi TT. I quite like the TT (this was the old shape) but this one had been ruined by the owner’s decision to add a personalised license plate.
There’s nothing wrong with that, per se, but this one was [...]
Techcrunch are full of shit -
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We [...]
Novelist Pratchett becomes a Sir -
Author Terry Pratchett has been knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to literature.
Sir Terry, 60, was named in the New Year Honours list.
Wonder twins telescope sees star’s dying gasps -
500 light years away, the star T Leporis is dying.
It used to be much like the Sun, but [...]
BBC – Newsbeat – Technology – Sky to replace 90,000 HD boxes -
Thousands of Sky+ HD customers are to have their boxes replaced after a fault was discovered by manufacturer Pace.
Food intolerance test – Watchdog -
Julia Bradbury went under cover to reveal how a ‘food intolerance’ test available from high street gyms, spas and chemists [...]
NABBC National Convention -
A bright but cold morning recently greeted the delegates for the 2009 National Convention of the National Association of Brass Band conductors (NABBC) at their convention venue in Lincoln.
Our band performed at this event. We were delighted to be conducted by the legendary Major Peter Parkes
Don’t be bitter as Twitter gets fitter [...]
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