I have very few memories of the most impressionable, formative years of my life. A scattered handful, however, occasionally surface, and this is one of them ( Read more... )

People who argue about the Monty Hall Problem really get my goat.

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The Large Hadron Collider has a webcam.

So. Yazoo are back together for a reunion tour, 25 years after they split up. Alison Moyet, she of the unmistakable husky voice. Vince Clarke, he who is the synthesiser-geek half of Erasure. Much wonderfully bouncy synthpop. There is practically no way it can fail to be awesome. I intend to go. Who else is interested ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'll be on a 20-mile sponsored walk along the Thames Path to raise money for BLISS, the charity for improving the chances of survival for premature babies ( Read more... )

I saw this sidebar ad for plastic surgery today.

So... did she only have enough money to get one of them enlarged, or something?

If you want any of these things, please comment. They are free to anyone who'll take them away.

Also, does anyone have any spare SCSI cables lying around?

Mini Tower PC:
AMD K6 266MHz processor
Gigabyte GA-5AA motherboard with AGP, PCI and ISA slots.
64Mb RAM
CD-ROM and floppy drives
No hard drive or graphics card (I can probably find a hard drive ( Read more... )

The Telegraph makes an unfortunate choice of words.

A Scunthorpe Problem in the wild.

"...he put the stuff on his ear, like. That was before he caught fire..."