Never one to miss a trick, IKEA have designed kitchens to suit our potential leader’s personalities. Link: IKEA’s Political Kitchens
As you’d expect, the parties are gunning hard for your vote. Or so you’d think. I haven’t had a single candidate visit me or talk to me – barely anything. I’ve had a couple of ‘personal’ letters written to me and a couple of thousand other people from both David Cameron and Gordon Brown, and […]
Later this month, my favourite group of all time, The Divine Comedy – well, Neil Hannon – releases a new album, Bang Goes The Knighthood. The first single will be The Indie Disco. And it’s a cracker! You can watch the video here (and here, in HD) I actually cannot wait for the album…
St Mary‘s in the Isles of Scilly has just nine miles of road, no roundabouts or traffic lights. However, the island noew has it’s first-ever speed gun in a bid to crack down on hasty drivers – even though most of its 823 vehicles would be hard-pressed to truly exceed even half of the island’s […]
oporopolist (n.): fruit-seller. “Brian found the oporopolist’s genetically modified produce very tasty, but he contemplated the wisdom of the triangular grapefruit.” I have adopted this word. Link: Save The Words
Been meaning to post this for ages… The Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey wrote: In some areas of Britain, you’ll see mobile phone masts in plain view in all their stark, skeletal nakedness. In others, well, you won’t see them at all. Why? Because they’ve been hidden in the clockfaces of town halls (Hungerford, Berkshire), or in […]
Here are the education policies for each of the three main parties condensed down into Wordles. I haven’t done this, Jo Winchester has. It’s very interesting! The more times a word is used, the larger it appears on the Wordle. Image via CrunchBase The Labour Party’s Education Policy: The Conservative‘s Education Policy: Liberal Democrats’ Education […]
Last June, Help My Physics placed some photographic film into a tin canister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin canister was then attached to a clothes pole in their back garden and left. This afternoon I fetched the canister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic […]
White Post Farm has thousands of friendly animals, like chicks, llamas, rabbits, cows and pigs. The farm’s open every day of the year (apart from Christmas Day!) and with lots to do, rain or shine, it’s perfect for family days out, school trips and birthday parties. As well as meeting the animals, you can zoom around on go-karts, […]
Oh my word, this is superb. Take 20 musical YouTube videos, start them at any time, mix them using the volume sliders and you’ve made your own song. In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. It’s just […]