Yearly Archives: 2009

Schumacher to return to F1

Retired F1 legend Michael Schumacher looks set to return to behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car for the European Grand Prix as a stand-in for the injured Felipe Massa, who was knocked unconcious by a spring in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying. Schumacher will now undergo a preparation exercise (though no F1 car practice) [...]

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Nice things are bad

More nannying today as we are told that Iced coffees are bad. Some of them apparently contain over five hundred calories. Arrgh! Of course they contain a lot of calories, they’re a rich, sweet, treat. How is this news? The charity behind the figures is telling us that we should avoid the sweet, sugary flavours [...]

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Cheap Plastic Stuff – Alien Egg

A progress update on the hatching alien egg can be found here. As cheap plastic stuff goes, this one isn’t going to win any awards from me.

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School proposes clip-on ties

Oh dear lord. McAuley Catholic High School in Doncaster has proposed a move to clip-on ties for their kids for “safety reasons”. Apparently, there is a concern that kids might be strangled by ties that get caught up in “something”. Hmm. Funny, kids have been wearing real ties to schools for, what, hundreds of years [...]

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House of Lego

In a genius move, Top Gear’s James May is planning to construct a house (full human sized) out of Lego bricks. There is a web page for the Toy Story project, though it doesn’t yet mention the Lego House. I think this is a great idea, and would be loads of fun. I hope it [...]

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