While googling about the new Fiat Grande Punto, which is the Mark 3 Punto, I stumbled across the fact that Fiat licensed the design to Serbian car manufacturer Zástava, who we know here as Yugo. Zástava are marketing the car as the Zástava 10, although Fiat have mandated a “Licence by Fiat” badge on the […]
I usually only listen to blonde jokes told by blonde women — knowing self-deprecation is the best humour — but this has to be the best blonde joke ever told. Seriously!
I really should have been sleeping, but I got sucked into watching US President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Bush’s manner of speech really irritates the hell out of me; he speaks in, short burst sentences, not always making it clear, where the sentence is going, to […]
The 78th Academy Award Nominations have been released: oh for David Strathairn and Dame Judi Dench to take Best Actor / Actress in a Leading Role …
I got a beauty forwarded to me this morning in my email: —–Original Message—– From: [snip’d] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 08:56 To: [snip’d] Subject: Message from Strathclyde Police THIS MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED FROM STRATHCLYDE POLICE CAR JACKING SCHEME You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock all […]
After reading about Bill Gates’ inconsistent predictions for the future with regard to voice recognition, here’s further proof that Gates doesn’t have a fucking clue what he’s talking about: The other fascinating thing about this change is that it has, to some extent, fulfilled Bill Gates’s prediction of January 2004 that “Two years from now, […]
I’ve had a day to read and get used to The Observer in its Berliner format. It’s much easier to handle, much easier to read, and every writer seems almost painfully aware of the change. The quality of both the Guardian’s and Observer’s journalism is fantastic; now they have a great-looking platform from which to […]
Bit disappointed in John Naughton today … first he gets the year wrong for the first commercial SMS — it was 1992 regardless of when your phone supported it, John. Then, in today’s new spangly Berliner-format Observer, he states that the Internet was “developed between 1973 and 1983”. The first international connection — from the […]