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“Crap” claims report (2nd consecutive PBS headline with crap in, and counting…)
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Guardian’s article on the report about the study of electrical fields on health, which predicatably came up with “there’s nothing in it, really”, has a quote from a suitably fed up prof: “This is yet another example of […]

Brits slow to junk old crap shocker
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Firefox achieves 10 percent market share but the UK is weighing this %age down badly, as it’s 5% in UK, but 14% in US. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU UK PEOPLE. Just STOP using blimmin Internet Explorer. Do it NOW. there is no excuse, it is an OLD old[…]

Apparently you can now download telly…
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Apple sold 1 million video downloads in 20 days . Though most of those downloads were music videos, the downloads of Lost also did well despite being $2 a shot. This guy commenting in slashdot has watched ALL of Lost (to date) from Apple’s iTun[…]

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THE FT TOP 23 STRANGE PHENOMENA No. 3 The Bermuda Triangle
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She says, “Hawaii’s too expensive.”
I say, “Barbados isn’t bad.”
She says, “I’d love to see Bermuda”
And I said, “Woman, are you mad!”
Barry Manilow’s Bermuda Triangle got to […]

b3ta’s food science: poached eggs
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http://b3ta.com/features/howtopoachanegg follows the modern way of cooking. Google the recipe/method and try out the top hits. Now I don’t recall ever having poaching an egg, but I recall the “vortex” method – possibly because[…]

Centrifugal Force
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This didn’t make the FT list of unexplained phenomena on the spurious grounds that it is easily explained. THIS IS NONSENSE. Rarely will you get a scientist to explain it, they will try to fob you off saying that it just does not exist – […]

IFComp 2005
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The 11th Annual Interactive Fiction competition. The games were released on October the 1st, and judging lasts until mid november. All the games are free to play and are designed to take up no more than an hour or so of your time. Indeed if you are j[…]

The Incredible World of Uri-Geller.com
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uri-geller.com
When faced with writing about Uri Geller, it is hard not to fall into the trap of sounding perpeptually sarcastic. The man is a massive fraud. As such it’s hard to take any of his claims seriously and it’s ever so tempting[…]

Turing (not) Shroud-ed in Mystery
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Another rub pun, and another link to a BBC News story, as, Frobjous Day, the brits prove themselves best at pretending to be human in the annual Loebner Prize.
Unfortunately, the Jabberwacky site is a little over-subscribed at the mo, so i don’[…]

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