The French Taco – Parmo Meets Calzone, Maybe Francesina Meets Croque Monsieur
We're told of the great new street food emanating from France. Apparently they've decided to give us something different, something called the French Taco:
The...
Ooops! Patisserie Valerie Looks To Have Been A Scam All Along
As soon as Patisserie Valerie got into trouble we around here started to mutter that perhaps there was more to it than seemed. Or...
Christchurch Shooting – Both A Tragedy And An Opportunity To Censor Us
The Christchurch shooting is already showing the wisdom - or cynicism - of Rahm Emanuel's comment that you never let a crisis go to...
Facebook, Twitter And Christchurch Mosque Shooting Video – How To Stop It Spreading?
Assume that we do in fact want to stop the gunman's video of the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand from spreading. How do...
Parents Beware – Google Docs Is The New WhatsApp For Your Children
Inventive little people, human children. It's become common knowledge among the kiddies that Google Docs has a chat function. Therefore it's not necessary to...
Language Depends Upon Those Over Processed, Softer, Foods
Or at least the language that we speak today depends upon processed and softer foods that came with the rise of agriculture and static...
The Thing Is, Michael Jackson Is Innocent
That Michael Jackson may have been more than just a little bit dodgy is a fair enough comment. So too is the idea that...
Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work – Ghana’s Takoradi-3 Thermal Plant
The idea that we richer people should help those poorer than us seems morally sound. It's even economically sound as a basic theory -...
A Rather Cool Way To Measure Earth’s Wandering Magnetic Field – Stone Walls
When people divided up the virgin lands of North America they used, not unnaturally, magnetic north to aid in delineating boundaries. That magnetic north...
AI Can’t Recognise Black Skin Tones – Excellent, That’s How Science And Engineering Work
There's a certain shock horror to the finding that AI driven image recognition systems cannot recognise black skin. Or, perhaps, can't recognise them as...