The BBC reports: And new “white tea” is expected to make its mark as a fashionable new health drink. You heard it here first. However, don’t buy the tea bags. Go here and buy some Mau Feng.
Musical baton
The ongoing musical baton has reached me via sil. Total volume of music files on my computer: about 3 albums. I don’t know what that is in MB. The last CD I bought: I, too, hardly ever buy CD’s anymore.…
Image object replacement in Javascript
I just did document.images=myImageObject and it worked. I only tried it as a last resort as I thought it would be silly and the console would moan at me. Sometimes I hate Javascript; sometimes it’s lovely.
A man called Fun
I went to Sainbury’s at lunchtime and was served by a man called Fun. Wow. No need to make lame mushroom jokes or anything. He was actually one of the most cheerful people in there.
Le Google Print
Language Log has an interesting series of articles on the European, French-led, initiative to form a rival to Google Print. The last article pours appropriate scorn on the idea that Google apparently plan to trample on European Culture: Do these…
Under attack
By dinosaurs. Via Simon Brunning who is under attack by Martians. There’s also a wasp option, which I can see disturbing some people.
<q>Trains are better than cars. They just are</q>
Some wisdom from Simon Brunning: Oh, and trains are better than cars ‘cos even if they are horribly delayed, you can entertain your children and let them go to the loo, cutting down on the strop count considerably. See also…
Party leaders
The BBC reports party leaders in final poll push. Is it me, or has this election been focussed almost exclusively on party leaders? I’m sure it never used to be this bad. Gordon Brown popped up a few times, but…
The Da Vinci Code anagrams
O, the divine ACDC Not chav deicide Cheat divine cod Die in a cod chute Vote CID echidna Not produced using Anagram Genius, although The candid voice was. A cod chute makes a change from a goat race. Dan Brown…
Drown Ban, Not Chav deicide, or The Mongo code
Chapter 1 The eminent and very French Inspector Gordon Flache eyed the eminent Harvard popularculturologist suspiciously, “Do you know what it means?”. Chapter 2 Obertray Angdonlay, the eminent and needlessly American expert on popular culture, who had once written a…