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Just Be Thankful It Is Not Scratch And Sniff
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This years winner for the Anti-Date Movie Of The Year at the BAFTA’s is already a given, Steve McQueen’s Hunger will kill that burgeoning relationship stone dead. There is nothing like a dirty protest to turn a date off. But what is interesting a[…]

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Bottleneck at Capel Curig…
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Neil Morrissey’s Risky Business, the everyday tale of celeb beer brewing (and how peed off must Richard Fox be that he’s not in the title?) might be exactly the sort of programme you’d expect us here at FT to be interested in, and w[…]

New Word Monday: TRONCMASTER
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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[…]

FT Credit Crunch Etiquette: Tipping
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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[…]

Friday is Link Day
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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[…]

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

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Quantum Of Solace 7 (as the poster says): An Appreciation
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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[…]

What Is The 38th Best Song Of All Time Then?
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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[…]

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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 16
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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[…]

The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 38. ?
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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[…]

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