Learning:
Picasso was also really very good at [being photographed] painting with light. (Plus he never got called an asshole. You know he could walk down the street and girls could not resist his stare?)

Learning:
There are some new cautionary stickers to watch out for on the underground. A nice distraction from you being so warm you may pass out ( Read more... )

Learning:
iPhones can be tracked, if you sign up to a certain service. This can help you get yours back, if it's stolen. Curious how this is a positive thing, provided a nefarious cove is handling your wares.

Learning:
I like street art that's reminscent of Kevin Bacon.


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Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash.

Internet says: aaaaaaaaaah.

Yahoo! news, much like Amazon, isn't content with just offering you one thing. Stories are keyword linked to other suggested reading. So today's report on a man who broke into a house and filmed himself wearing a schoolgirl's underwear - headlined Cross-dressing thief jailed - is also accompanied by two other mini-headlines. Suggesting you may now ( Read more... )

Well I think Disney could stretch this bovine lucky escape tale into a full-length movie, complete with wise-ass gum-snapping Nu Yoik side-kick. Think of the potential bucket-kicking puns for a dairy farm creature! Think of the 3D hooks looming towards your child's eyes! Think of the Happy Meal tie-in possibilities for a Slaughterhouse Five gang of ( Read more... )

In among all the panicky and preposterous news stories online*, tis nice splendiferous to find the BBC musing on vocabulary sizeProfessor David Crystal reckons most people vastly underestimate their total, and suggests gauging your own average by ( Read more... )

Note to self. The BBC news headline 'Funk' blamed for exports slump which you so giddily clicked on could not possibly have rounded on an Americal musical genre of the mid-late 20th century as a reason for Scotland's diminishing sales overseas. Tch.