Oh yes

Not telling us what popular tripe the kindle-kiddies are into then. I suspect it's Dan Brown and teen vampire fluff all round.

No love for Android

I'm becoming increasingly annoyed at the lack of app development for Android from companies like this, and the likes of National Rail. Perhaps more annoying is when an app exists for Android but you have to pay for it, whereas the iPhone app is free.

Who's with me?

Who wants to join the campaign to ban spelling the word fan-boy as 'fanbois', for any context. I can't be the only one who reads it as 'fanbwaah'.

Good job Argentina is a mess

...or it'd be bye bye Falklands.

One of these days

One of these days I'll be able to afford to go back to Mac.

Interesting

Interesting, but not shocking. Don't objects of this size, and bigger, fall to earth all the time, but are just not spotted?

LASERs on the head of anything you want

I good example of the short sightedness of cutting funding that doesn't have immediate commercial potential is the LASER. They were just tools for physicists for ages, and no one had much of a clue what to do with them. Now they're one of the fundamental technologies of our economy.

So good on 'em.

Also, anecdote time: My dad worked in a research laboratory in Hinxton until it was shut down. They showed the local MP around the labs one day, with demos of their tunnelling electron microscopes etc. At one point the man turned around and said, "So, remind me. What's an atom?"

Oh Lewis

I was just thinking, "I wonder when Mr Page is going to have another good old go at the navy, it's been a while."

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"focussing the full weight of the law on the most abhorrent practices, such as trafficking or child abuse."

Which according to the twisted minds of our former government, represents the majority of the sex industry. Everyone remember those trafficking figures they magically pulled out of their arses?

Wish

Wish he wasn't so self righteous. Wikileaks used to appear responsible, with no underlying agenda. Not so sure now.

I think we've learned that...

Friendship with the US is a one way street.

High strees life of a city gardener

"gardeners visiting the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley"

Are they particularly prone to suicide?

Good

Always a positive for the consumer.

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Isn't limiting users to one browser what MS were taken to court for in the EU? How is Apple getting away with this?

Weeeeell

It may be considered prudish but breasts are regarded as erotic by the majority of people, and their display might offend those who don't want to see them in public.* From the sounds of the case, the girl knows this. The fact that they are erotic was the reason she was flashing passing cars for thrills, to the enjoyment of some and disgust of others. There's also the fact that it'd be a distraction to drivers, but that's something else to worry about.

*Not by me, I hasten to add.

"Ah crap"

I did think "ah crap" when I saw it, thinking I'd allowed my machine to get infected with scareware. This was followed by confusion and suspicion when I saw ZoneAlarm in the title bar. I happened to be using the Mrs' laptop when it popped up on that too, so managed to diffuse that one as well.

Hah

Why do you suppose when I got to "Eastern European" the mystery of where this article came from vanished? I must have the gift of premonition.

Oy vay

"...attempt to win Middle Eastern hearts and minds by pumping out a weekly celebtastic show featuring the antics of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Britney Spears"

That'll go down well with the clerics. I can't imagine many things that'll have a more polarizing effect on Islamic cultures.

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It is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing.

My experience

In my experience, flights are a strange (very un-English) microcosm, where people who're annoying tend to be dealt with as a collective. If it's 4 in the morning and everyone's trying to sleep, and someone starts yacking, everyone will glare them into silence pretty sharpish.

Of course I've never been on a flight with drunken men or women (sorry ladies but I hear you're the worst), going to a stag or hen do. I can only imagine what special kind of hell that must be.

Median of $52,000?

Really? That's over £30,000! Lucky bastards.

Good

"On the EU, for example, the Foreign Office posted a lengthy defence of Britain's role in Europe in response to dozens of furious calls for total withdrawal.

Public demands for a complete ban on immigration were similarly rejected by the Home Office."

Good. Just because a few thousand BNP and UKIP supporters care enough to shout at the government, doesn't mean they should make it policy.

I'm sure they'll ignore plenty of sensible suggestions, but these to nationalist examples are best brushed aside.

Ruggedised?

Nope. There'll be tears... and bits of iPad before bedtime.

Also, if they were to start using tablets, shouldn't they have a slot for those NHS access cards?

Bunch of bastards

This doesn't surprise me much.

In this supposed age of posterity, NatWest will happily tell customers £1000 into a £1250 overdraft that they're allowed to extend it to £1500, no problem. Also, they keep asking if I want another credit card.

Anyone read Monstrous Regiment?

I can't help but be reminded of the increasingly psychotic decrees of the god Nuggan (only deity worshipped in Borogravia, but elsewhere known as the God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork).

According to the Book of Nuggan, cats, the colour blue, Dwarfs, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, babies, cheese, the smell of beets, ears, jigsaw puzzles, crop rotation, shirts with six buttons, and rocks were all Abominations unto Nuggan.