Tag: news
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Toilets With Urinals? Toilets Without Urinals?
Remember this picture I took at BiCon this year?
Looks like as a concept it's going to become not-so-strange, according to a report in Metro: University students open trans-gender toilets. -
Firefox 3 "Download Day"
Downloaded your copy of Mozilla Firefox 3 yet to help them make the world record? I've been using Firefox 3 since the early betas and I've got no qualms about recommending it wholeheartedly. The awsomebar is simply that: awesome, the speed and memory usage have become far better than the previous version, and the care … -
Does Food Go Missing From Your Kitchen?
Does food ever go missing in your house and you don't know who's eaten it? You probably ought to check all of your cupboards, then, in case you've had a small Japanese woman living in one of them for the last year and you hadn't noticed.
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The Surname Study
Go read a mind-bloggling study a mind-bloggling study about the effect of names on happiness, success, and lifespan! Just brilliant, and only slightly scary.
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Politically Incorrect Human Nature
A recent article from Psychology Today talks about human nature, sex, and the best theories on why we act like we do. From the article:
Women often say no to men. Men have had to conquer foreign lands, win battles and wars, compose symphonies, author books, write sonnets, paint cathedral ceilings, make scientific discoveries, play … -
Orgasms And Biochemistry
Just read a great article on brain activity during sexual stimulation and specifically upon orgasm: scanning people's brains while they're engaged in sexual activity with their partners has lead to some fascinating results. From the article:
In men, greater activity was seen in the insula, which deals with emotion, and particularly in the secondary somatosensory … -
On The Implausability Of The Explosives Plot
I read a really great article over on the Interesting People mailing list today: On The Implausability Of The Explosives Plot. It's well-written, only slightly cynical, and - crucially - exhibits a knowledge of chemistry and basic security policy that seems to be beyond the entire research teams of the scaremongering governments of today's Western …
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SmartData Wasn’t At The Royal Welsh Show This Year
Pity. From a BBC report:
A young woman's naked table-top dance in a cattle shed at the Royal Welsh Show has led to an official inquiry... One witness, who did not want to be named, said security guards rushed to the scene late on Tuesday, but had difficulty grabbing the woman because the water had … -
Comcast Customer Service
Saw a news story today that made me smile: it seems that this guy had problems with his Comcast cable modem and, after a fair amount of hassle, finally managed to get them to send an engineer around to look at it. The engineer proceeded to fall asleep on the guy's couch, which he caught …
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Guess I Was In The Wrong Place…
...when a man in Aberystwyth threw up to £20,000 into the air in a free-for-all on Alexandra Road.
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Microsoft And Sony Agree, “Buy A Nintendo!”
Well, it seems that both Microsoft and Sony want and expect you to buy a new Nintendo Wii. Both have independently said that their console (the XBox 360 and the PlayStation 3) will be people's primary choice, but because of the cost of the other and the innovative games on the Wii, it'll be people's …
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MGs Cafe Owners To Marry
News to anyone who cares. This poster is up in the window of the cafe.
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Angry Saudi Protesters
In the style of her comic, The Aber Effect, and in the light of recent protests about the religious implications of a comic, Claire has made a marvellous one-framer, shown below:
Much thanks to Claire for allowing me to publish this online. -
Futurama May Come Back To Life
In the news: Inside Move: 'Futurama' may get new lease on life. That'd be fabulous.
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Genius Filmmaking
This is just a piece of genius filmmaking. 5 friends in Machynlleth made huge chipboard letters akin to the ones famously on the hills above Hollywood did so secretly, deploying the letters the night before Mach's weekend-long film festival started.
But better than that, they filmed themselves doing it and entered their short movie into the …