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[…]

There is an election in Britain today. But not in London. So it doesn’t feel like an election at all to me. Indeed I have felt really rather detached from all the posturing of the last few weeks because it has not been inciting me to vote. Kids[…]

Okay, they come pretty close on this one. Of the three flavoured* offerings from the good people at SC Johnson (A Family Company), one is citrus. The others – for the record – are the remarkably non-descript “FRESH” and the Sa[…]

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[…]

What a bunch of saps we are. But then if you ask fifteen people who have been on a pub crawl for six hours what is the thing that underpins the universe, well a slurred Love is not the unexpected response. Anyway, someone jumped the gun, because as w[…]

What is the Periodic Table of FreakyTrigger? The best way to describe it is to firstly say what it is not, and then to say how it was made. If it all makes sense after that, then this truly is a project that you might get something out of. Here it is[…]

So the most e-mailed news story at the moment on the BBC News Website* is Reggae Reggae Sauce going on sale. Seen as a triumph for the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, one assumes this is not just a good confident businessman, but a nice sauce too. […]

Now we know how mental the BBC Talking Points get. So one would imagine the humorous and pithy answers a woman moving back to the UK from Australia after thirty years would get to the question “Has anything changed?” Oh the fun, the gags […]

Ha! In yr face Second Life!
Discussion of this story in the office made me realise why SL, as an interweb community, suXoR even beyond the hype, slowness, lack of a decent combat system etc. IT HAS NO LURKERS. ILX gets 20k viewers per day (not claimi[…]

Is there another major thoroughfare in London that has such a great array of divers buildings as Fleet Street?

Three Wren churches (OK, so St Clements Danes is *just* Aldwych), The deco majesty of the Express Building, the Protestant Truth Society, […]