I don’t know what the response rate is to Bodyform’s latest hard hitting billboard campaign. “1 IN 5 WOMEN ARE LET DOWN EVERY MONTH BY THEIR SANITARY PROTECTION”. It seems like a rallying call nevertheless, and one which may m[…]

In a league table for under fifteen-year-old incidences of violence, English girls come fifth in the world and Scottish sixth. This assumes they did best in the quarter finals. Eastern Europe seems to lead the way with Hungary, Estonia and Lithuania […]

oh you humans, confusing SPECIES-WAR INVASION SCOUTS for something cute and quirky — so complacent, so puny[…]

“oh oh i’m sorry i have not delivered my review as promised [= have missed THIRD re-negotiated deadline], the text disappeared from my computer somehow but IT is workin to recover it” = THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK[…]

People judge websites quality in about a twentieth of a second. Which IS FASTER THAN WE ACTUALLY THINK. This is the reality of the interwebworld, first discovered almost five years ago when it was discovered that people could tell if a website was us[…]

A recent survey showed that when children are asked to draw a scientist they consistently draw a figure “with wild hair, lab coat, staring eyes, coke-bottle glasses, a withered hand; in some cases they’ve even written the word “MAD&[…]

For some reason the e-book seems to be the holy grail for certain technology manufacturers, no doubt frustrated that millions of people in the world still endure – nay – enjoy reading words on paper. I am not sure of the environmental imp[…]

Mona Lisa ‘definitely smiling’
The “computers analyse art” story is perhaps second only to the “scientists have discovered an formula” story in the science spacefiller stakes. Here we see “emotion recognition[…]

Mashed Artichokes??!!: I think the stuff in this article about blood sugar is probably pretty sound however the family Xmas isn’t all about the food and drink, it is a finely calibrated and balanced thing in which ideally every factor that migh[…]

And indeed it appears no-one started the Hemel Hempstead fire currently burning up all the oxygen in the world. Not only has the disaster/pretty sunset maker thrown up massive cultural differences in the use of the word casualties (see this ILE threa[…]