This is something that really annoys me about the media. Sometimes, even the specialist media. I just saw a headline from Space.com boldly proclaiming Scientists Say Dark Matter Doesn't Exist. Or to be more accurate, ONE astronomer and his grad-student ( Read more... )

According to AOL news, there's good news for British Gas customers - and about time too, if you ask me. I'm entirely convinced by their figures though. Apparently, "the average annual dual fuel bill for its customers will fall by £167 million to £953 million". Now I know there's been a lot of price increases recently, but I still find it rather ( Read more... )

Some 400 years ago, a certain Mr Fawkes was arrested in England on the charge of plotting to blow up the UK parliament with a rather large quantity of gunpowder. We still remember this today, with a national celebration every year - and rightly so ( Read more... )

Or does it?

The BBC have published an article this week claiming "Britons are increasingly tech-savvy but are still bamboozled by tech jargon". One of their examples regards RSS, a key resource to many residents of the blogosphere in particular, stating "while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for ( Read more... )

Some bastard (or a group of them) has just swiped my wallet. Fucker. Somehow "the brick" managed to work its way out of my jacket whilst I was cycling home, and when I went back over my route I found somebody had kindly removed the contents and distributed them across the path. The contents that couldn't be used by themselves, that is. This was ( Read more... )

What do the following books all have in common:The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger ( Read more... )

What sentence should a man get for raping a baby, as young as 11 months old? What sentence should he get if he continues to rape that same child for another three and a half years ( Read more... )

Whilst my computer is churning away, I thought I'd attempt a little survey to see if SPOON is a localised phenomenon, or perhaps is in some way related to the weather. It's rather unpleasant outside this morning; dull, dreary and drizzling with a threat of heavy rain looming ominously. And so SPOON (the Stupid Peoples' Organization Of Noodleheads) ( Read more... )

I have received an email claiming to be from my isp, about a funky new security product they offer which can be downloaded free. It all sounds good, except that the images and link point to mx0.net - which sounds very suspicous to me ( Read more... )

Another great example of press scare-mongering. Allow me one moment to rip this article to pieces.

It opens by stating Britain's Trident nuclear warheads could be partially detonated in a road pileup or plane crash, unleashing lethal doses of radiation, the British weekly New Scientist said on Wednesday.
But it then goes on to explain "Most of the ( Read more... )