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Tagliatelle is People!*

The Guardian reports that publisher Penguin Australia has been left with egg on its face after it was revealed that a recipe for Tagliatelle with Sardines and Prosciutto from their book The Pasta...

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Allow Me to Disembowel Myself

If it wasn’t for the constant company of my spammer scammer friends, what a lonely person I would be! Well, that’s obviously what they think anyway, judging by their eagerness to fill my inbox with...

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The Land of the Free

Hmmm. Smells mostly like bullshit to me… Actually, only one of those three mentioned things has any smell at all and I don’t think I’m alone in not having the faintest inkling of what a palm tree...

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What’s My Motivation?

You know those daft motivational posters that have been well-and-truly pwned by Despair.com? Well, a guy named Douwe Osinga, who works for Google, has made a fun web time-waster called Auto Poster...

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iPads Will Kill You!

That example par excellence of stellar journalistic accomplishment The Melbourne Age, tells us this morning that iPods and iPads are nothing less than the Typhoid Mary of the looming global...

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Poison Apple?

A few days ago in my post iPods Will Kill You! a couple of commenters thought I might be over-analyzing the current trend for the Fairfax media (among others) to be engaging in Apple-bashing....

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Modern Agriculture

Ah, reminds me of the good ol’ days. ___________________________________________________________________________ Snaffled from the Fourmilab libraries, with thanks and apologies for copyright...

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Expert Remind You

Dense? Though much brain cells now, might help you with loss intelligence at normal time. ___________________________________________________________________________ This gem photographed by Cissy...

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Blow Gabriel, Blow

Do you ever look at things and think… hmmm… I wonder how that came to be? Take this roll of toilet paper (or ‘bathroom tissue’ as the Americans call it, because they can’t bring themselves to say that...

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What Rhymes with Chips?

When it comes to poemin’ the handiest bookmark I have is Rhymezone. Imagine my puzzlement when today I went looking for some rhymes for the word ‘free’. Cod? Huh? (It took me several minutes to figure...

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Brother Can You Spare a Dime?

As much as I’m disparaging of journalists, I do encounter, very occasionally, some smart ones. Annabel Crabb, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is such a writer. You may remember my very...

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Touchy Feely

Intercepted by Akismet from comments this morning: Whoa there Sonny Jim! You just keep your hands off my rss.

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You Don’t Say?

When it comes to tautology, it goes without saying that ‘It goes without saying’ is the sentence by which all unnecessary, redundant and superfluous verbiage must be measured. Time and time again I see...

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Powered by Hot Air?

Hey looky! Steorn is now road-testing its prototype Orbo-powered car. ___________________________________________________________________________ Pic courtesy of Queen Willy...

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When I Was a Kid…

When I was a kid the most coveted material possession of school life was a set of Derwent Pencils.1 Derwents were the cr̩me de la cr̩me of primary school artistic tools Рwithout Derwents, your...

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In The Future…

Over the weekend, Violet Towne and I visited the Monash Gallery of Art to see an exhibition of photographs by Anton Bruehl. Bruehl was born in Australia, but made his career in New York where he became...

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The Modial Interaction of Magnetoreluctance

What Shoo!TAG‘s ‘science’ sounds like to anyone who knows real science: ___________________________________________________________________________ With thanks to Sir Joey for the lolz...

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3D Odorant

It works really well for anyone wearing the special nose plugs. Otherwise it just makes everyone nauseous and gives them a headache. Personally, I don’t think it’s as effective as the Quantum...

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