It would appear that Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com, Blogspot, YouTube and a number of proxy sites are all currently unavailable in China in the run-up to the anniversary of ‘Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square’.
New Google product later this year
Google are never ones to be left behind when it comes to developing new, or competitive products and there is a new one on the way later this year. It is only currently in the developer preview stage, but it does look rather good. Twitter is the current web phenomenon, growing at an incredible rate, and there was much speculation …
Keeping up to date
The English language is constantly evolving as society changes, and this is reflected in some of the words being added to the Oxford English Dictionary. So, what is Frankenfood when it’s at home? Deriving from Frankenstein, quite obviously, it is defined by the OED as: Noun (derogatory): a food that contains genetically modified ingredients. Other new entries include:
Mid-whifflery
Fancy getting caught in mid-whiffle. Well, this greylag goose was and it makes for an extraordinary picture. First thought was that the picture had been photoshopped, to give it its current technical term, but this apparently really does happen. Caught in mid-whiffle.
From the Daily Wag and Cleavage
Trawling through the press, as one does, I started to read about what I assumed was the hot news of the day, North Korea testing a huge atomic bomb (well, huge for them) and a short range missile (wonder where that one will be aimed?). Then I saw the real news headline of the day:
Strange verdict in a strange case
Need to run this one by a few times to try and work out the logic, if any. A SENIOR police surveillance officer from SPECIAL BRANCH involved in the tragic shooting of unarmed Brazilian Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground station on July 22nd 2005, who DELETED notes pertinent to the case and FAILED TO REFER TO THE NOTES during …
Car-free Times Square
Times Square in New York is in for a change as from today, with much of it becoming car-free.
They should have chosen a different profession, politics maybe
There are countless tales of inept crooks who obviously got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn’t watching, here are two such individuals.
Can see this being popular
Oldham Council has become the first authority to review all pub licenses at the same time since changes to the Licensing Act came into force in 2003. The 2003 Licensing Act allows police and trading standards officers to apply for variations in a pub licence if there is concern about drink-related violence and disorder, so what have they come up …
Astounding revelations
Hot on the heels of the astounding revelation that ducks like water, a new 178 page report commissioned by the Rail Safety and Standards Board has reached some astonishing conclusions.