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Crackerjack on the Paul McCartney thread: "Fair enough if you don't like The Beatles - I mean, you're wrong, deaf and stupid, but that's your call". I really don't see what all the fuss is about as far as the Fab Four are concerned. If you think I'm wrong, post five Beatles songs that will...

Though I have a feeling people aren't gonna be so interested in this today.

Thought I'd momentarily come out of retirement to let you know that Venus is the currently the brightest celestial object I've probably ever seen, bar the moon (and the sun, smart-arses)...at least I think it's Venus. Go and have a look if the sky is clear in your area, it's just 'above' the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7690324.stm Is it necessarily "right-wing" to want to limit immigration? If you think of yourself as left-wing, are you therefore obliged to support unlimited immigration for ever and ever? Does a country like Britain - wealthy, highly developed...

appears to be today. How do the little buggers manage to coordinate it so well, do you think? Pheremones, maybe? Insects are cool, they're just little machines. :)

I'd like to touch base with yourselves about incentivising challenges as we go forward. But first, I want a client-oriented feedback package on exactly why this sort of management-speak is so spleen-rupturingly abhorrent to anyone who isn't a contemptible turd of a human being. Thoughts...

Inspired by a news.bbc piece on the decade since the introduction of no-win, no-fees rules to civil claims courts, it struck me how many of the comments left mention uninsured drivers. Which got me thinking: why is it the law in this country that you have to insure your own vehicle for the...

You heard it here first: http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/hofmann_albert/hofmann_albert.shtml (a website as appropriate as any for reporting this sad news) Hofmann, Swiss chemist extraordinaire and inventor of LSD, has embarked on the greatest trip of all. *cliche alert! cliche alert!*...

Have we done this story yet? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7330196.stm I've put it in this thread because it's surely a technological achievement, rather than a 'natural' one (not that I believe in any kind of natural/unnatural dichotomy, but it's clearly man-made, if you excuse...

This is pretty cool: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7326097.stm :) Also, it's not really worth its own thread in Technology, but who else isn't keen on the BBC News website's new look?

Does anyone know of any open source, or otherwise free (or at least inexpensive) software that allows one to mix MP3s? I don't mean 'mix' in any kind of technical beat-matching sense, here: I just want an MP3 player that'll allow me to play two tracks at once and then crossfade from one to the...

This almost belongs more in 'Technology' or 'Nature' than it does here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm One of the few authors of the genre whose work was as much Science as it was Fiction. Perhaps he'll requisition the AE-35 antenna and beam us a few last words...

Bugger, double post. How annoying of me.

Well it's goodbye to the old joker: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7217342.stm I hope someone 'pranks' his funeral. I'm sure it's what he'd have wanted.

Now this I don't get: if he's innocent, why does he feel he has to resign? Isn't his resignation more or less an admission of guilt? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7206812.stm I've not really been paying attention to this story, to be fair, as "Labour MP in the shit over dodgy...

...I just saw this on news.bbc and it looked worth commenting on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7181658.stm So does anyone think the US will try and make Israel actually, you know, do anything about this?

When are we going to give up the pointless practice of pricing things at £X.99? Does it really fool anyone that they're paying closer to £X than £(X+1)? Or should the BoE just adopt the Monster Raving Looney policy of introducing a 99p coin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99p Also, has anyone...

Tube announcements woman fired over spoof 'announcements' on her own blog - http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/mind-the-crap-l.html :(:mad:

Any fans in the house? I've been reading a lot about these guys lately, but I know virtually none of their music - so where's a good place to start?

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