Hundreds protest at TV ‘seance’ 2 BBC news stories (again, sorry)
“Although Channel 4 received 487 telephone calls and e-mails complaining about the show, it said only 30 came after transmission”. One-time Christian Derren ups[…]

The “added stats” on the ad Tom mentions below say that 44 women trialled, about 30% lost an english dress size and a total of 65% had some positive effect*. Wow, only 35% of the group experienced size gain! So overall 15% did better than[…]

Boffins Celebrate D-Day Too
Apparently 10 Colossuseseses were built! Anyway, the Colossus Rebuild Project started in 1993 and now it’s been rebuilt by studying 8 photographs!?
Give them something to work on with Enigma Emulators! It’s fab[…]

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[…]

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[…]

10 Years Younger (in 10 Days)
A disturbing and unpleasant show – thanks new look Channel 4! But such concerns are fit for discussion on sibling blog Do You See. No, what I want to bring to your attention is the poor methodology of the show.
At […]

HUR HUR HUR
Diagram from the news story that Pete links to (below) LOOKS A BIT RUDE. (Tilt head to left)[…]

FEAR THE PIE
Last night, while drunk, I may have contributed to a premature death. This is what I did: I removed the following advert from a London Tube carriage…

This is part of the British Heart Foundations “Big Red Fightback” ca[…]

I did the Retro Bar Quiz last night and got the worst score I have ever managed there. It was a Eurovision special (I seem to recall going to the one last year too) and for the first time ever it was a 2-sheet answer form because every question (20 o[…]