Very sketchy news at the moment, but it sounds like a police offer has been stabbed, his assailant has been shot, and a car has rammed a number of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge. Don't know at the moment if it was the same man or two separate incidents ( Read more... )

Wearable tech has finally gone too far. I present to you, the smart condom!

“Have you ever wondered how many calories you’re burning during intercourse? How many thrusts? Speed of your thrusts? The duration of your sessions?”

Umm, no. Fuck, no.

OK, but seriously. Surely no one will want to have sex with a man who straps an activity tracker to his ( Read more... )

This year has just fucking sucked.

Carrie Fisher...

*sobs*

You do not get to take Princess Leia. You do not. There's not going to be any final blaze of glory for you. You've had your fun, now fuck the fuck off.

I really don't know where this year has gone. But that's a good thing since it's been such an unmitigated clusterfuck of a year, and the hits just keep on coming ( Read more... )

BBC News: Brexit court defeat for UK government

Bravo for the High Court. Now let's hope all our MPs grow a pair and vote 'no' to this epic impending clusterfuck by declining to invoke Article 50. Slim chance, but you never know!

I will be so glad when this Brexit vote is resolved, one way or the other, next week. I'm sick of it. It's not a political debate anymore - if indeed it ever was - it's just degenerating into insults and lies, damn lies and statistics, nationalism and childish schoolboy behaviour.

Case in point - how is the spectacle of Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof ( Read more... )

Tim Cook's message to Apple customers

The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand ( Read more... )

I just don't understand people.

I came across a quote from Virgil today whilst cataloguing a law book (The International Law of Migrant Smuggling, no less) that seemed so incredibly pertinent to the Syrian refugee crisis at the moment.

"What men, what monsters, what inhuman race ( Read more... )