I'm having to work at work and even think about stuff a bit. Still, enough time to track down the following exciting news stories from the BBC website. And also to wonder if anyone knows where I can obtain a rabid chinchilla? Please?
Tea tree oil or lavender oil make boys grow breasts! Shamefully, "It is not known whether the oils could have similar effects on the endocrine systems of young girls, teenagers or adults."
But
this is funny: "Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders." But don't worry, only if you have the speech recogniser enabled AND your speakers turned on!
Today's pick of
WikipediaDuring Hitler's last lunch of spaghetti with a "light sauce," according to the secretaries who ate with him, conversation revolved around dog breeding and how lipstick was made from sewer grease. Both were topics Hitler had brought up on numerous past mealtime occasions. Eva preferred not to eat lunch on that day.
There's apparently a
scandal about Microsoft hiring somebody to correct factual inaccuracies in Wikipedia, which goes against everything Wikipedia stands for. Paid contributions? Correcting errors? Experts writing entries? Pfft, that's hardly the logic of the mob.
I must go now and poke fun at
Nicola Roberts (she is the one who actually looks like a clown). I don't know whether to be excited about a Girls Aloud/Sugababes collaboration or fearful of another Comic Relief record. Still, it will probably be better than The Stonk. At least it will be accompanied by Richard Curtis murdering the Vicar of Dibley with daggers fashioned from the ribs and femurs of jazz bassist Sting, allegedly for the last time ever.