Apparently the popularity of sites like Friends Reunited is being blamed for a recent rise in the divorce rate. A lot of people have a rosy impression of the first relationship they had at school or college. If they are feeling unhappy with their partner, they begin wondering what it would have been like if… Continue reading First Love
Author: Dave Cross
Comment Spam
Last year I wrote about the large amount of comment spam that this site was getting. Readers kindly pointed me at a couple of useless resources and over the next few months I worked through most of Yoz’s suggestions. Most of these worked for a while, but the spammers found ways round most of these… Continue reading Comment Spam
“I’ve Got My Tits Out So It Must Be True”
A very interesting piece by Tim Ireland on how Rebekah Wade has been changing Page 3 into an extension of “The Sun Says”. Apparently she thinks that Sun readers are more likely to lap up blatent propoganda if it is recast as the opinions of women with no top on. Unfortunately she’s probably right.
Not The Brightest…
More proof (if any was needed) that reality tv contestants aren’t exactly the brightest of people. “Shell” Jubin was touted as one of the cleverest people on this year’s UK Big Brother. During the course of the programme she got a first class degree in some fluffy subject. But it seems that she’s not too… Continue reading Not The Brightest…
Film/Book Tie-Ins
Occasionally (!) films based on books end up bearing little relation to the original books. A good currenty example is I Robot. I haven’t yet seen the film, but the trailers I’ve seen make it very clear that that it has almost nothing to do with Asimov’s original collection of short stories. However there must… Continue reading Film/Book Tie-Ins
Thatchers
Very happy to see that Mark Thatcher has been arrested for his part in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. He’s always been a nasty piece of work with his fingers in all sorts of dubious pies. Let’s hope the shock kills his mother.
KarmaDownload
I’ve just got a press release announcing that the music download site that I was working on earlier this year has gone live. One particularly nice thing about it is that it has absolutely no DRM at all.
Eurofoo
Over the weekend I was at the Eurofoo conference in Enschede. Tim O’Reilly invited a group of people to hang out for a couple of days and tell each other about cool stuff. Before I forget it all, here’s a brief list of the interesting things that I saw. Ben Hammersley creates RSS feeds of… Continue reading Eurofoo
Boscastle Witches
The destruction that has taken place in Boscastle this week is, of course, terrible but there’s one thing that I haven’t seen mentioned on the news. One of the most interesting buildings in the village was the Museum of Witchcraft. This museum had a number of interesting and unique exhibits about the history of witchdraft… Continue reading Boscastle Witches
Matthew Shergold
I’m starting to suspect that there is an orchestrated campaign to turn Matthew Somerville into the new Craig Shergold. When I first mentioned the closure of the Accessible Odeon site I got this response (which also appeared in a number of other places). I emailed the person who made these comments to correct their errors,… Continue reading Matthew Shergold