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[…]

“You could be up to one size slimmer” claims a new ‘body modelling’ product on a poster ad. Hmmm. The key words are “up to” – since dresses, unlike shoes, don’t traffic in half-sizes then the ad is esse[…]

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[…]

disaster movie howler&spoiler: look away now!!
OK in DAY AFTER TOMORROW it is very poorly explained why there is suddenly a tidal wave. Surely as more water became ice ABOVE sea level, sea level wd drop not rise?[…]

OMG WTF!!!: Worthy but flawed ‘guide to online lingo’ from US Missing Kids centre (it’s a .pdf file). The idea is for parents to be able to ‘crack the code’ of their kids’ logged online chats and so find out if the[…]

Infertility/Infidelity: not just similar words
Plainly there is a causal connection between infertility and infidelity. I base this finding on extensive research* conclusively demonstrating that whenever an adulterous woman becomes pregnant, it is ve[…]

Our sister blog Pumpkin Publog just hit on my party trick: figuring out what a fraction is based on the first few places of the decimal version. It can be done pretty quickly with a bit of spare paper and a calculator that supports x->1/x (or if you&[…]

WMD reports based on lame spook’s BAD SCIENCE shockah zzz
“As veterans of the Iraqi bomb program have subsequently revealed, Hamza grossly exaggerated his nuclear bombmaking credentials while downplaying the role his Ba’athist con[…]

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[…]