http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMZITR1bw8o

It's easy to knock the crass commercialism of the London 2012 Olympics. That's why I keep doing it on a semi-regular basis.

But whoever decided to market a promotional toy of an aeroplane originally designed and built in conjunction with the French, and which hasn't flown commercially since 2003*, decked out with the official 2012 logo really ( Read more... )

...nice box for a nonexistent kit though:


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We get funding for this.

So, with the launch of a new interdisciplinary project drawing upon the knowledge and skills of numerous academics hailing from a range of different departments across six institutions and three continents, comes the apparent need for a new blog.

We get funding for this.Research. Out there in the open. Chronicled - as ( Read more... )

...but it's finally available:


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Yes, it's Tony Starch:


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...because I can't, off the top of my shiny head, imagine anyone else being tempted by this Bioshock hypo prop replica...thing:


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One of the unexpected benefits drawbacks of having to haul my sorry arse over to Sainsbury's in order to pick up some crappy 3D glasses for next week's bad acid flashback to the 1990s Channel 4 televisual extravaganza (http://www.channel4.com/ ( Read more... )

For the best possible reason, however:

A photo gallery of vampire-hunting kits...

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/art/vampire-hunting-kits-portable/

...via boingfeed.

Now do carry on. (I'll be throwing some old bits of tat in a box, and ( Read more... )

There are no words for this level of wrongness:


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