So researching a note on credit crunch etiquette, the question arose: can tips could towards the minimum wage in the UK. Which led to this page on DirectGov (which – if you want to know the answer – is sort of). Which then led to this par[…]

Its a brand new Freakytrigger feature, since it is our fault the credit crunch, some say downturn, some say RE CESS ION has happened*. But nevertheless the new economic climate throws up new situations. What do you do when the beggar at Marble Arch T[…]

Ironically, since I started this mean and low-down project earlier in the week, the quality of PR emails I’ve got has risen sharply and includes stuff that actually sounds pretty cool, such as Trail Of Our Vinyl, a project looking to uncover th[…]

“Each face is made of approximately 150 million tiny carbon nanotubes”[…]

Here is a review from FT’s Bond-o-o-phile Magnus Anderson:
Quantum of Solace 7 is GREAT! It had plenty that I liked in Casino Royale, the weight and heft and sense of consequence. But it was better paced – I thought CR dealt with the car[…]

I mentioned this in one entry in my Beginner’s Guide series, and rereading it now in this big collection, I think I may have undersold it a little. This volume collects all McCloud’s B&W Zot!s: it therefore omits the first 10 colour i[…]

Its not Punka by Kenickie. As demonstrated here, the massed meh of FT writing staff proves it. So instead intrepid reader suggested five worthy replacements for number 38. And you have until the end of November 4th to decide whcih one should have the[…]

In the last episode of Series 2, Astrophysicist Michael Williams joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “The Forgotten Enemy”, written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1949. It’s about comfy isolation, radio static, and forces la[…]

Avid readers of Freaky Trigger will be aware that our intermittent at best feature, running down the “Top 100 Songs of all time as voted for in a pub in 2004”. And hopefully haven’t been holding their breath, because they’d be[…]

To celebrate our Popular feature reaching the 80s, here is an exciting NEW SERIES of Freaky Trigger posts where we look back at that decade through the lens of A Decade Of i-Deas: the encyclopaedia of the ’80s, published by i-D magazine in 1990[…]