“Thousands of homes face losing phone lines after cable thieves struck. Police were alerted today at 9.30am to the theft of high-value cables near Cambourne. [...] A mobile police station has been sent to the area and high-profile police patrols have been mounted in a bid to reassure residents. BT engineers are working on restoring [...]
Find out if you’re still a child at heart in one easy step
Does this look as tempting to you as it does to both Russell and I? It’s like there’s an invisible force field pulling me towards those. Not sure if I would’ve managed to resist, had I been there!
Political correctness gone absolutely bloody bonkers!
So Christmas the holiday season is coming, and as if we needed any more political correctness madness going on, Santas have been warned not to use their age-old “ho ho ho” laugh to greet children as it may be degrading to women. Santas in Australia’s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas’s [...]
Printer says “Out Of Cheese”
The best office prank ever if you have a quantity of HP printers around the office. Confuse the hell out of your work colleagues with this Friday tip on changing the default message on HP printers. Photo by PommeGranny on Flickr.
Diggnation 118 live in London – The bits you didn’t see
As you’ve probably figured out by now, I really like Diggnation, enjoyed Wednesday’s live show like no live event I’ve been to before, and am thrilled to have met the guys there. I took my video camera to the show and it was such a good move. The show does not start when the cameras [...]
OMG a woman on the internet
I bow down to xkcd, the best geek cartoon in the world.
Post Secret + Lolcats = LolSecretz
If Post Secret is too heavy for you, and i can has cheezburger is too silly, then find the perfect mashup of the two of them in LolSecretz.
Run, Fatboy, Run!
Last night, I went out to see “Run, Fatboy, Run!” with Andrew and my lovely friend Celia. I’m already pretty fond of Simon Pegg’s older movies, but I think this one tops them all. The theme is more appealing to girls than zombies or village cops, so that might have something to do with it. [...]
The Daleks have invaded Manchester
Run for your life, the Daleks have arrived and will EXTERMINATE everything in their path! More awesome Flickr pics here [Via BoingBoing]
Funny Google Searches #9: The Jaded B*tch Edition
Every so often, I trawl through my blog’s search logs to find out what topics have ignited the interest of readers. There’s the top content, the usual search terms. But then there’s the dregs, the random gobshite some people search for that leaves me completely mystified HOW that landed them on my blog! So here’s [...]
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