Category: Misc

Back in February, I posted a piece about the new style Lynx deodorant cans and said that I thought the design was faulty. Well, as the comments to that post seem to confirm, I’m not the only person who’s noticed the fault. OK – four other people isn’t a great deal, but these are people…

I really did get my Google Talk application letting me know that these two emails arrived in fast succession.

Why do we keep getting new versions of TV and film classics adaptations? Every Jane Austen novel has now been adapted on countless occasions and you just know that there’ll be more. Even “definitive” versions of the classics don’t stop someone else making the same story again a few years later. So we had a…

Realising that the reason the woman in front of me exiting the tube this morning is walking so slowly is that she’s checking her Blackberry the nanosecond she’s back in reception. (We’ll leave aside my Facebook refresh tendencies…)

John Naughton and Sean French are baffled about how someone could put this sequence together of 100 quotes from 100 films counting down the numbers from one to one hundred. Naughton thinks that it’s un-Googleable. Well it’s very Googleable. Or rather, with a good knowledge of various sites, you could do it. It’s worth noting…

Excellent news: Uri Geller is being sued (Via Bad Science).

Hey! Every other muppet is launching a range of clothing. Obviously, I have zero designing skills, but I have worn clothes nearly all my life, so I must know something right? I’m not even a singer. Get queuing now, as my exclusive range of geek-wear will be available from 9am Monday in branches of Halfords,…

The London news today is that the Mayor is giving away 100,000 free Oyster Cards to people who don’t yet have one. This is an attempt by Transport for London to get some of the die hards who’ve not yet got one, to get around to picking one up. Ordinarily you have to pay a…

I do feel sorry for Kate Middleton. This is Monday’s Standard billboard – “Kate Shows Strain: Picture” And indeed, the front of that day’s paper showed a picture of Kate sitting in the back of taxi or similar looking seriously pissed off. That wouldn’t be anything to do with photographers following her everywhere she goes…

Why are Google press releases emailed so slowly? Given everything else Google does is incredibly fast and efficient, I find it odd that GooglePress mailshots take so long to appear. At around 14:40 this afternoon, I noticed message posted on the Google Blog, via Bloglines (in other words, it was posted earlier). The message in…

Do you know the story of the “stolen” biscuits? Two strangers sitting somewhere in public – perhaps at a train station café. One dips into the other’s biscuits. Insensed, the other person does the terribly British thing of not saying anything but pointedly helping themselves to “their” biscuits. This continues for several minutes until the…

He’s not a massive fan (NSFW language): Via Waxy links.