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[…]

The Russian army has rescued 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian ice!! “The lorry carrying the beer sank when trying to cross the frozen Irtysh River, and a rescue team of six divers, 10 workers and a modified T-72 tank have managed to save[…]

RIAA v Nielsen FITE!
A companion to the ingenuous “oo downloads might be good for us” piece linked by Tom below, is an article from Kensei News earlier this month.
According to Soundscan, the service that Nielsen runs to measure actual Po[…]

Music industry recovering: biz gropes for explanation – “I have a theory that there is something about these services such as iTunes and Napster which is sparking an interest in music which is leading to increase physical sales.” &#[…]

new products corner (not nicked from the Grocer honest)
new ice creams for the summer – Yorkie and Toffee crisp from Nestle (that’s pronounced Nessels)
new walkers flavours (limited edition)
greek kebab
Tomato and Basil
feta cheese
An Aus[…]

Why are you running down that corridor aimlessly.
Because we want to, because we want to.[…]

The BBC Health News website seems obsessed with doctors clothes. Nary two weeks after the ground breaking Doctors Shouldn’t Wear Jeans story we have the more frightening Ties Carry Deadly Diseases. There is a vague point in the second story, ti[…]

Oh, I know people pronounce it bass as in bass guitar, but originally it was Bomb The Bass, to rhyme with ass which describes Tim Simenon perfectly. A man with little musical talent, he became aware in the mid-eighties that computers and samplers wer[…]

Lookee here Sight’n’Sound. The Godfather is a different film to The Godfather Part II. As such you cannot just roll them into one film to make up for the fact nothing as recent got any votes at all and to sneak something new into your top[…]

WOULD YOU ELECT THIS (or any other) PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS?[…]