Category: In the News

  • Play-Doh has a very unique scent, which we associate to so many childhood memories. To me, it’s a reminder of the salty homemade “pâte à modeler” my mom used to make instead of buying us Play-Doh. It did mean I…

  • Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic (WordPress.com, WordPress.org, etc.), gave more details on the funding that founder Matt Mullenweg wrote about a few days ago on his blog. WordPress is, in my eyes, the best blogging software around, and considering…

  • Saw this article on the Beebs a few days ago, and I think these ladies are getting their knickers in a twist over nothing… Feminists in France have petitioned the French government to remove the title Mademoiselle or Miss from…

  • Mr. Patto highlights the fact that Australia’s new tourism commercial, which has the tag-line “So where the bloody hell are you?”, has so far been modified, restricted or banned in the UK, Canada and now Japan. Britain raised the issue…

  • Oooooh I know it’s completely saddo of me to want these but at £25 for the lot including shipping, I’m mighty tempted to get them! Just a shame that I haven’t got my own computer room anymore otherwise there’s no…

  • So it’s happened again. British music manages to sneak its way up the US Billboard, and it turns out to be complete and utter shit music. Why can’t it be something better? I mean, I’m not a fan of much…

  • As if I wasn’t paranoid enough about using other people’s pens because I know I always end up chewing them, touching doorknobs because I don’t know what’s been on them before, and just generally hating shared bathrooms, this Korean research…

  • The Beebs reports: “Health campaigners have welcomed a vote paving the way for a ban on smoking in all pubs, clubs and restaurants in England from the summer of 2007. MPs voted on Tuesday by a margin of 200 votes…

  • This is the nagging sound of any Canadian wife to her husband in early November when the first signs of winter frost start appearing. A car without snow tires is like well… a Canadian without a shovel, it ain’t going…

  • What? Stars in a Thong? Ohhhh Stars Throng to Children in Need. Madonna may have been completely and utterly rubbish, and Jordan may have been lip-synching while Peter Andre was singing for real, but hey it’s all for a good…