Quad Lasers

In this hectic, 24-hour modern age, we sometimes need to escape what I will call the “digitally-converged binary autobahn”. Hence the need for such important philosophical tracts as “The Cure For Information Overload”. Please, if you are suffering from the effects of Information Overload, you must read this article - it will change your […]

The brief trailer for the often speculated upon, now confirmed Simpsons movie was finally broadcast last night, thus sparing people the indignity of having to go see Ice Age: The Meltdown in order to watch it. Oddly, the producers say that the film will have it’s worldwide premiere on July 27th… of 2007; how […]

“A phone salesman was hauled off a London-bound plane by police after his taste in music aroused terrorism fears. Harraj Mann, 23, asked a taxi driver to play The Clash’s London Calling through the vehicle’s stereo. But the cabbie rang police after he heard the song which includes the line: ‘War is declared and […]

“A Bristol teacher who resigned after her school failed to replace a squeaky chair which made “farting” noises has lost an employment tribunal. Sue Storer claimed she was the victim of sexist and bullying behaviour. The 48-year-old left her ?48,000 position as deputy head of Bedminster Down Secondary School last September.
She had claimed constructive […]

Foot Dancing.

Shadow with a cute look on his face.

You know when you try to sign up for some sort of service online, and get asked to read a bunch of swirly alphanumeric characters and copy them into a text box in order to prove that you’re a human and not some automated net bot? Well, that is what’s known as a CAPTCHA […]

Now, I’m not saying that waxworks are inherently disturbing things, but when I saw this post on welovecelebs.com, upon seeing the expression on the wax Lindsay Lohan’s face, I couldn’t help thinking that it bore a fair resemblance to one of the most disturbing Buffy villains, The Gentlemen:

Forevermore, the sight of Ms Lohan will […]

As the title suggests, I’ve done a fairly comprehensive overhaul of this site, simplifying it where necessary, and making things horribly complicated (for myself anyway) elsewhere. It also has a nice clean new look, thanks in part to the awesome K2 WordPress mod by Michael Heilemann & Chris J Davis, and a striking header […]

I can’t decide whether the concept of Manchester Passion is really cool or incredibly naff; certainly the idea of a live modern day retelling of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ set to classic songs by classic Manchester bands sounds god-awful (pun actually not intended), as most historical (or should that be mythological?) events that […]