Scientists at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina have created a mind-reading implant that gives rats telepathic power! Something that I notice a lot of the reports seem to down play is the fact that when the two rats were paired up they quickly established a rapport involving a kind of sensory feedback. If the second rat failed to find the ( Read more... )

( I googled to see if )

First off, why is it called "Marvel Avengers Assemble" in Britain and nowhere else? Do they really think a significant portion of Blighty's movie-going population is going to confuse this in any way, shape or form with the 60s TV series or lame-as-all-hell 90's film?! No! Because most of the people ordering tickets weren't hiding in a cave in ( Read more... )

So... Last night I totted up my holiday allowance, the monies I currently have left after paying all February's bills and since I'm not going to Glasgow... well I still had enough for a ticket to Asylum 8 and... Oh for the love of Buddah what have I done ( Read more... )

I can't even remember where I got this thing from, I just found the list slapped into a txt file on an old memory stick.

( What's in a gangsta, detective, soap opera, star wars, super-hero, Iraqi, witness protection or goth name? )

Hope everyone had a good Halloween/Samhain/Pomona Fest/Cosplay Night. Mine was spent, as usual, drinking cider, eating toffee apples and hiding from Treak-or-Treaters once the sweets ran out. It seems no matter where I live or with whom, I'm always the one on door duty so to go with the currently pink and black hair I whacked on a pink vest, black ( Read more... )

( Behold my geekery, it is epic! )

Well, census time was upon us again. It's quite weird to think the last time I had to trawl through one of those I was a petrified purpled-haired 19 year old who had only just left home, could only type about 10 words a minute and had only been on the internet five breif times - to a Tank Girl gallery, an indie music chatroom, Marilyn Manson's ( Read more... )

Elmo has been busy all day stressing about the car that she only got last month crapping out in the frozen weather  - to the point where she was threatening to throw herself off the viaduct because apparently this is all too much. But then she sat down for tea, reached out for the Gallic Tickle Me Elmo doll, switched it on and all was well with the ( Read more... )

Spider just called to say he got his "fucking brilliant" Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. The zipper pull is a little plushy blue lightsabre, the inside lining has a pattern like entrails and it's big enough to easily fit anyone up to about 5ft 7". I didn't hear much else in terms of coherent sentences throughout that epic man-squee...