Spellcheck Serendipity
Time was that if you typed: “I’d like to throttle Bill Gates for his monopolistic business practices” into Microsoft Word and then checked the phrase against its built-in thesaurus, it offer the following phrase in response: “I’ll drink to that”. [...]
The Tao of Sporting Punditry
When an accident occurred during an F1 Grand Prix, Murray Walker, the motor racing commentator would sometimes tell the audience “we can’t see what’s happened from where we’re sat.” The reason Walker could not tell who came off at turn [...]
News is No News
If I told you what I did today, you probably would be left unimpressed. Rather obviously, I spent a part of today writing a blog. Let us avoid any metaphysical musings of over whether the blog-writing should be described in [...]
Lily Allen: The New Arthur Scargill
Enjoy this blog as a podcast here or at iTunes. George Orwell wrote about Salvador Dali: “One ought to be able to hold in one’s head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human [...]
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