Wednesday 11 August 2010

Sign of the day

"Warning street cleansing in progress"

Is "cleansing" better than "cleaning"?

Tuesday 1 June 2010

Thursday 22 April 2010

Truck of the Day

PRIOR PRODUCTS LIMITED

Do they send them before you order them?

Have the products changed into something else?

Sunday 11 April 2010

Tuesday 6 April 2010

The right man for the job?

Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals

Roger Boyes, Berlin Correspondent of The Times

BA BA Blacklegs

With lyrics

Thursday 1 April 2010

Up close and personal?

I know about lapdancers , but laptopers?


"Laptopers in an educational practice: Promoting the personal learning situation
Tomas Lindroth , Magnus Bergquist Computers & Education 54 (2010) 311–320

Friday 26 March 2010

Media News

I bought the Guardian yesterday for £1. No press interset at all. Is it becos I isn't Russian?

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Don't get too excited but...

First International Conference on Yawning

Première Conférence Internationale sur le Bâillement



2010, june 24 & 25

Paris

Hôpital de La Salpêtrière

Amphitéâtre JM. Charcot

(sent in by Fred)

Wednesday 17 March 2010

I wouldn't be seen dead in it anyway


Thanks to John O'D for this

Too busy to read books?

Well here is Pride and Prejudice in emoticons:


From Rebecca (No, not that one)

Friday 12 March 2010

Meanwhile in MK....


.. cryogenics seems to have moved on to pets.

It's the dog's bottom!



(Sent in by Karen)

Disambiguation

For you young ones, Jack Brabaham (see below) was a world champion racing driver in the sixties

Thursday 11 March 2010

Wednesday 3 March 2010

The nights are drawing in

Apparently the Chilean earthquake has moved the earth's axis by 8cm thus shortening the day about1.26 microseconds

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Steven Fry I ain't ..

.. but just received the 1,000th visitor to my Blog!

There has been an average of 5 per day since I set the meter running. That probably means 4 visits from me plus a Bot, but Hey! - one day.

Yesterday the Ring Road was blocked by flooding. Today?

Monday 1 March 2010

How stupid can you get?

A study by Imperva shows the 10 most common user passwords are:

1) 123456
2) 12345
3) 123456789
4) Password
5) iloveyou
6) princess
7) rockyou
8) 1234567
9) 12345678
10) abc123

Collectively these ten account for 2% of all passwords.

Way to go!

How do you like them apples?

Truck of the Day

"WALKING FLOORS"

Doesn't sound like a niche market.

Friday 26 February 2010

Diversity Training in HE

Watch and learn

More wales of anguish

John tells me that Luxembourg is only one eighth of a Wales

So what ? They could have said the iceberg was the size of Clwyd!

Is this the tip of the iceberg?

In a dangerous move the BBC has announced that the iceberg that has boken off the Southern ice cap is the size of Luxembourg.

Don't they know that Wales is the Standadrd Internation Unit for such occurences?

Where can I find a conversion table?

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Truck of the Day

Can't remember the firm but it just said "TRANSPORT" - no "LOGISTICS" no "SUPPLY CHAIN, no "SOLUTIONS", no "NUFFINK".

HOORAY!

Tuesday 23 February 2010

Retaliation?



I thought we might retaliate by stealing the Leeds University logo (see last item)but it seems to just be an off-centre salt cellar.

A hint of competition?



Plus brand stealing!
Read more at The Really Open University website

Monday 22 February 2010

Over the Moon


Wasn't it lovely to see Mr Bean meeting the Queen?

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Killer headline

My quest for the perfect tabloid headline continues. This from the Sun on Jan 19 comes close I feel:

COKE SHAME QUEEN WAR HERO JAILED


There are no redundant words but I think it was let down by the use of JAILED rather than CAGED

Friday 8 January 2010

Happy New Year from Southern Spain




How to have fun with a dictionary!