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Ferris Bueller's Ferrari Up For Auction →

To give you the full story, the 250GT Spyder California isn’t actually one of the 100 originals made by Ferrari—it was a replica created by John Hughes and Paramount. It’s a working model, but I doubt the buyer will be wanting to risk it. WHAT?!

Mar 31st

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Mar 30th

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Mar 29th

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Anonymous asked: Your last post is missing writer attribution. You should be more careful with that, because it makes you look like a plagiarist.

Mar 29th

Astounding new element discovered

Oxford University researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called...

Mar 28th

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24 has been cancelled...

…and Keifer Sutherlund has said the cast and crew ”always wanted 24 to finish on a high note, so the decision to make the eighth season our last was one we all agreed upon”. Sadly they overshot by about four years.

Mar 28th

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Mar 27th

"Cooking doesn't get any tougher than this"

Or so claim the annoying hosts of UK cooking show, Masterchef Goes Large, which used to be fairly amiable watching but is increasingly devolving into reality TV fodder. It’s quite obvious cooking does get tougher than “this” where “this” actually means “roast some lamb in a TV studio kitchen, only to be criticised by a has-been chef with hamster cheeks and a...

Mar 27th

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This is a short clip from the new series of Doctor Who, which starts next week (for you Americans as well, I believe). I was slightly dubious about this new Doctor; he’s just so damned young. But this clip looks brilliant, and somehow feels more like the old school Doctor Who I grew up watching than either Tennant or Ecclestone did. In particular, the menacing string orchestra note as the...

Mar 27th

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Mar 27th

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The 1st International Longest Tweet Contest →

They are already up to 525 bytes in a 140 character tweet, with some clever exploitation of Twitter’s Unicode handling.

Mar 26th

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Mar 26th

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Salt & Fat: Fish Sandwich →

Tuna Sandwich Neven and JimRay wrote up a recipe for a tuna sandwich over at their cooking blog Salt&Fat yesterday. It calls for tuna dressed in a freshly-made balsamic vinagrette (from the vinegar itself, mustard, mayo, and oil) and a sliced hardboiled egg. I’ve been obsessing about it ever since, for no really good reason; except that I love the combination of eggs and tuna and...

Mar 25th

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toldorknown asked: Since 'nadolig llawen' is Merry Christmas in Welsh (or, rather, Christmas Merry), is it safe to assume that Gaywood is an anglicization of Penllawen?

Mar 25th

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“In rare cases, [a megabyte] is used to mean 1000×1024 (1024000) bytes.”

– The Wikipedia “definition of a megabyte” article. THE HORROR. THE HORROR.

Mar 24th

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Mar 24th

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Mar 23rd

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Also, when you’re immortal you apparently charge into battle with your cock swinging about. Good to know. Basically, don’t face off against naked guys. They might be impervious to harm.

Mar 23rd

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Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 22nd

Charlie Brooker on The Mephedrone Hysteria →

“It’s perhaps the biggest threat to the nation’s mental wellbeing, yet it’s freely available on every street – for pennies. The dealers claim it expands the mind and bolsters the intellect: users experience an initial rush of emotion (often euphoria or rage), followed by what they believe is a state of enhanced awareness. Tragically this “awareness” is a delusion. As they grow increasingly...

Mar 22nd

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Mar 21st

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“As you can see, the art of sushi is basically nothing.”

Mar 21st

weselec: Can someone please explain, in 50 words or less, what the living fuck Twibzlers is so I can stop seeing it and going “what the fuck is Twibzlers” and start simply ignoring it? There’s an app for that. Edit — it appears weselec had a sense of humour failure over this (one, two). It was supposed to be a joke riffing on the famous Apple iPhone slogan, with the punchline...

Mar 20th

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“Apps aren’t simply killed off after the user stops using them, though. The...”

– From the “multitasking” section of Engadget’s exhaustive Windows Phone 7 Series: What We Know article. Apple, please note this app UI preserving technique is exactly what almost everything in Palm OS did a decade ago and should not be news!

Mar 18th

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Say it with me

everythinginthesky: I don’t need a telepresence robot discounted from $230 to $99… I don’t need a telepresence robot discounted from $230 to $99… I don’t need a telepresence robot discounted from $230 to $99… I don’t need a telepresence robot discounted from $230 to $99… I need a telepresence robot discounted from $230 to $99…

Mar 18th

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Mar 16th

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Mar 16th

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Mar 16th

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My letter to my MP about the Digital Economy Bill

This is a letter I have sent to my MP about this proposed Bill. It has now passed the House of Lords and been passed back to the Commons, where (if there is no objections) it will be passed without significant further debate before Parliament is dissolved at the beginning of April. If you are UK citizen, you should act now if you oppose this Bill (and I hope my arguments below can convince you...

Mar 16th