Pop. It is what Freaky Trigger was about. Here, have a look at some of the early articles (COO-EE Who remembers INDIESHITE!). It was Tom Ewing’s pop fanzine, when suddenly fanzine became websites. It was quite a reputable one too. We had favourable[…]

I got stung! Only the other week I was recalling the era of decoy mp3s. Now listen carefully children – occasionally, back at the turn of the century, the odd illegal download of a new mp3 would be a decoy, or a loop of the intro. Imagine! You wast[…]

“Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.”
A quote from BBC online’s own story on tonight’s Panorama which is headed “Wi-fi health fear[…]

Robots. And not the so-so computer animated flick of 2005, but real actual robots, computer-brained servants made to follow our every need. The Freaky Trigger periodic table is forward looking to anticipate – in our time – more domestic s[…]

Scientists are being naive in saying that the government report on granting rights to robots is a waste of time. But then scientists are always the last people to apologise when their wacky projects accidentally end up grafting intelligent robotic ar[…]

Stumpy the duck is down to three legs. The usual terse reporting from Ananova explains how he got one of his superfluous appendages stuck in a fence and the vet came and harvested a leg for dinner helped free him from his predicament.
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What explains the prominence of this odd item in the Freaky Trigger Periodic Table. What is it that makes the idea of Spacewar so essential to what underpins everything Freakytrigger stands for? is it
a) The idea of thrill-power which Tom talks about[…]

with respect to the plausible workload of the tireless annalists of the future, which is worse?
i. the fact that the white house — by law required to archive all its emails — has apparently “lost” five million of them
ii. the […]

The pie edition of FT and their loverly lollards was notable for having more research per square inch for any episode. Which was a touch infuriating when I couldn’t get it out and instead fell back on fallacious articles about there being &#822[…]

Japanese Deep Fryer Has Aquarium Within says the headline. Unfortunately it’s just a demo of a fat fryer that uses a watery base to filter out food from the fat. Smashing way to demo it!
Now do you believe me?[…]