Hello. You are probably here because this page, on a pop culture site, is #6 on searches for “porn” on Bing.
There is no porn here. There never was porn here. There used to be an article about how using the word ‘porn’ as a me[…]

I love the internet. Only on the internet will you discover a discarded university research project, (which probably got an averagish mark) still there to be discovered. Only on the internet would you be able to peruse the technical difficulties on a[…]

… remember that afternoon when we first found Google Earth? Gasping in glee, our work suffered for the rest of the afternoon as we scrambled to remember old postcodes and called our co-workers round to look at our blurry roof… good days! […]

The little girl who named Pluto is still alive, and in her eighties. So maybe the guys in New York at the Hayden Planetarium who want to strip Pluto of its planetary status should wait a couple of years until she’s dead.
 (Actually according t[…]

Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and natural scientist, 372 to 287 BCE, retells a legend about wise men who sat under the shade of the banana tree and ate some of its fruit. In the time of the legend the banana plant was given the botanical name tha[…]

Best wishes for the injured. Always taken as read in a story like this one of an accident on a theme park roller-coaster. But the question of the fun value of roller-coasters and fairground rides rears its head. Because we instinctively feel the fear[…]

via the awesome dense rigour of “political theory daily review” — which i confess i don’t access daily, though i THINK YOU SHOULD, here is an even more awesome BABBAGE ENGINE made of LEGO, in which the maker, andrew carol, als[…]

The open competition of “how rub does your story have to be to get on BBC News” has a new contender as a top cryptozoologist (just check his credentials!) is despatched to the Gambia to track down a dragon. ‘Everyone who sees it di[…]

A man on Japanese telly blowing bubble-rings under water! More YouTube-ness. This looks unreal at first, but stick with it, and turn the sound off (unless you are Cis). It’s the demo-ing of the vortex motion, and the merging of two rings that d[…]

surely no reputable scientists would name a fossil JUST SO AS TO DRAW MEDIA ATTENTION to their work?[…]