Aliens certainly look like THIS: unfortunately the story doesn’t say i. how these Californian scientists worked this out, or ii. what their damn book is called. (Other questions as usual not answered: when did we start calling them aliens and w[…]

Computer Science: UNPLUGGED! Site which promises method of teaching computer science completely sans lumbering behemoth of desktop equipment and bleary eye horror. I quite like the look of Count the Dots – Binary Numbers and The Poor Cartograph[…]

Leaves on the Line: excuse for slow-running trains which has become a classic tabloid joke at the expense of “bureaucrats” and “bunglers” – this sensible article unpicks the science behind the gags and explains that, yes[…]

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
The famous 2-pound-coin/Oa*is-album quote, written in a letter to Mister Robert Hooke by Sir Isaac Newton ‘ but it hasn’t escaped the attention of some historians that th[…]

It’s all very well getting the recent 100 referrals on SIteMeter but unless you stump up the cash, that’s as much as sitemeter will let you see, and IT’S NOT ENOUGH. I crave referral stats, I want to keep the data FOREVER. So as the[…]

The prosecution points out that the gun belongs to the accused, the defence points out that the fingerprints are someone else’s, the jury nods to one another, the accused goes free.
In the case of The Port of Houston vs. Aaron Caffrey, the gun […]

BarbieOS 1.0 available to download now!
Most girls up through adult women become frightened and confused, often hysterical when presented with a traditional command prompt,” Cesterino explained, “therefore the console program available t[…]

Rodney Dangerfield is in talks with Clonaid, the shadowy cloning organization headed by the Raelians, a cult based on the revelations of a French racecar driver and based in Quebec. There is so much that needs to be said about this. So much. There a[…]

I think the boffins may have pranged a kite here.
In an attempt to define a unit of fame (the “Warhol” perhaps?) they seem to have neglected its overriding property – that fame is comparative. The fame of each participant affects t[…]

The perfect cheese sandwich, proven by science
And it’s 0.225b+0.196f+0.181e + 0.136p +0.134c + 0.127s.
But margarine on a cheese sandwich? Ew.[…]