Our sister blog Pumpkin Publog just hit on my party trick: figuring out what a fraction is based on the first few places of the decimal version. It can be done pretty quickly with a bit of spare paper and a calculator that supports x->1/x (or if you&[…]

Authors you’re too old to read at 34 (part 2)
Virginia Andrews
I Love Books has been tossing around the notion of re-reading, reflecting changes of taste and how the reader’s judgement alters throughout the years. In the middle of the dis[…]

Oddly, as I went to start this piece “Some Like It Hot” by the Power Station came on my mp3 player. Not really much of a commentary on the film, it did isolate one of the most bizarre things about the film. Its title. No-one likes it hot […]

PUB QUIZ QUESTION OF THE WEEK
This, even by the standards of bizarre pub quiz questions, is a little bit on the random front. The feeling of achievement when the result was finally discerned was tangible.
Q: Two prime numbers under 100 when one is di[…]

Summer Of Smut II: This week’s best Marketing story involves Trojan’s new condom ad. The 20-second ad, which will go out in a Big Brother break, is apparently the ‘first ever’ to show an orgasm on UK TV. Can this really be tru[…]

I don’t really care who the boy “belongs” to, I just want you two to stop caterwauling about him. Feel free to get out the claws and have a girl-on-girl, finger in the eyes fight, no-one ever won the right to date a guy just by sing[…]

WMD reports based on lame spook’s BAD SCIENCE shockah zzz
“As veterans of the Iraqi bomb program have subsequently revealed, Hamza grossly exaggerated his nuclear bombmaking credentials while downplaying the role his Ba’athist con[…]

The Onion AV Club runs through some scenes which were rightly deleted from films which hopefully DVD has saved us from official inclusion as some form of directors cut. This subject came up the other day after an experiment between watching Terminato[…]

NEW! FreakyTrigger RSS
It lists the last 15 posts across all the FT blogs &ndash hurrah! It’s Atom (cos we’re Blogger, innit). I was getting a bit self-conscious of having the FT page open on my desktop all the time at work, so now I[…]

Microsoft pay peanuts to keep Opera quiet
Another tiny round in MS’s attempts to wrap up criticisms of its anti-competetive practices.
This one is for all the web-designers out there that have to sabotage their own neat coding just to make it w[…]