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Name: The Rt Hon KJP
resistance is useless
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[ when science and art meet...]
... they shake hands politely, doff their hats, sit on a park bench with a pen and paper, and design this
[ teenager repellant ]
A machine that makes noise that repels teenagers. And no it's not country and western music
[ venus and shadows ]
Did you know Venus is sometimes bright enough to cast shadows? Well it is. Right now. NASA should know
[ online gamers: real identity vs virtual ]
BBC interviews with some online game players. And compares them with their game avatars
[ turkey parachuting ]
Parachuting. With live turkeys.
yes, of course its a joke..
[ boxes, everywhere ]
The day boxes took over the word.
[ testing if people can detect that they are being watched ]
science vs the paranormal
[ Musician Enya decides English is boringm, invents new language for her songs ]
Also creates entire fake history of the language.
[ there are only 7 basic jokes .. or is it 8...]
An attempt to produce the canonical list of all joke types, film scripts etc.
Did they include the "pointless movies involving Hugh Grant, actor with the narrowest range of characters, acting as a vague English fop?" That is a big slice of the industry...
[ more social software ]
There are lots of blogging, photosharing and communication environments around. But what if someone developed one that is elegant, clever and thoughtful? I guess they would have to think up an appropriate name?
[ Escherization ]
I wonder if anyone else likes this?
Just a faint chance, I suppose. Or maybe I will never know.
[ sing to me ]
feed some words to this and it will sing them back. Clever
[ eating fire ]
All you ever wanted to know about fire eating
How can you eat fire at a moment's notice... with items you'd find at a bar? See page 37
What simple change in lighting can make your fire look twice as impressive? See page 101
What can you do to save your life in the event of a fire eating mishap? See page 32
[ ampersands ]
How do YOU write an ampersand character & ?
Start at the bottom right and follow the diagonal up to the left? Or head down and then up?
[ risks of Christmas ]
[ weird and disturbing optical patterns ]
For illustrative purposes only? It Hurts
[ dream maker ]
put in a word or two, generate a dream...
[ Great Moments in Robotics ]
Oh, to be able to boast of achievements such as this
[ lateral thinking ]
Venice is sinking.
The new plan is to pump water under it to float it.
The scheme would involve pumping huge quantities of sea water into the ground beneath Venice down 12 pipes each of which would be 700m long.
How can this fail?
[ how to get rid of hiccups ]
Just in case. You never know.
