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  • I’m a little bit country, a little bit… HAROLD SHIPMAN?

    That’ll teach me. This is doing the rounds just now: MyHeritage.com enables you to upload a pic of your face and compare it against its database of 4,000 famous people. And here’s my results. [photopress:scaryfacescaryface.png,full,pp_image] / kills pensioner self

  • The war on pineapple

    As everyone knows, two of the greatest things in the world are based on pineapples: pineapple yoghurt, and pineapple jelly. So where the hell are they? In recent months my local supermarkets have been slowly but surely ridding their shelves of yoghurty pineapply goodness, so the only way to get pineapple yoghurts is to buy…

  • Cutting edge technology

    [photopress:gillette_fusion_power.gif,full,pp_image] Yesterday’s Guardian ran an underwhelmed piece about the new Gillette Fusion razor, which ups the shaving arms race by having not four, not five, but six blades (five on the front and a “precision blade” on the back for sideys and nasal hair, apparently). I have to disagree with the article, because despite my…

  • The war on screwdrivers

    From The Times: A flight from London to Washington was diverted to Boston today, flanked by fighter jets, after a passenger was found to have a screwdriver, matches and a note with a reference to al-Qaeda on her. From CNN: BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Fighter jets escorted a London-to-Washington, D.C., flight to Boston’s Logan airport…

  • Put a Nano in your knickers

    Daft idea of the week: knickers with a pouch for an iPod nano. [photopress:DG2006GWP_2T.jpg,full,pp_image] Oh dear. [Via Gizmodo]

  • Possibly sent to the wrong email address

    Just arrived in my inbox: PRESS RELEASE AN OPEN LETTER TO HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS The same email also contains: An Open Letter To Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri Dunno why it’s been sent to me. Everyone knows Osama subscribes to ComputerActive.

  • Should we be terrified of terrorism?

    A nice piece by the Cato Institute on terrorism’s real and imagined impact (pdf): Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over…

  • Sick but funny, in a geeky kind of way

    From Idiot Toys: Report: Terrorists planned to use iPod as detonator WHY THIS PLAN WOULD’VE FAILED: Because the battery would’ve gone flat! Ha ha ha! You’ve only got a FireWire cable and bombs are USB! Ha ha ha!

  • Crying wolf

    I wanted to blog about my mixed reaction to the terror alert – mainly concern, but tinged with a bit of cynicism – but it seems that Mr Eugenides nailed it for me: On balance I, like most others, would rather be safe than sorry. We’ll have to wait until the dust settles on this…

  • Flying today? Don’t read this

    Just got a newsflash email from Channel 4 news: A plot to blow up passenger flights in mid-air has been foiled by police and security services. The official security threat level in Britain has been moved up from severe to critical which means an imminent attack is expected. Around 20 people were arrested overnight in…