The NHS Behind the Headlines site has a far more balanced assessment of mephedrone (or ‘meow meow’ as its known in Brass Eye terminology) than you’ll see anywhere in the media today. Really though, this goes for more or less any medical story you’ll ever read. Hooray for the NHS!
In the last couple of months, I’ve managed to sell two old, slow, five-year-old computers to people on eBay for about £100 each. The desktop wasn’t even with the monitor: it was just the PC itself. This seemed a lot of money for a computer that’s more or less unusually slow to me, but I wasn’t complaining.
What I found strange though, was that they both seemed to be sold to people who buy loads of old computers like this, and they won them after having a bidding war with other people doing the same. But I don’t get it: how can anyone possibly make any money off these things? They were pretty rubbish computers by today’s standards, and I can’t imagine anybody paying more than I got for them, so I don’t see the motivation. So does anybody have a clue about how this might work?
So Encaladus is my new favourite moon of Saturn. Sorry, Titan!
I’d never even heard of it before watching Wonders of the Solar System yesterday evening, but now I’m convinced that it’s the best. It’s smaller than Britain, is smooth one side but cratered on the other, and it has long ridges called the tiger stripes which spurt ice out into space, forming one of Saturn’s rings.
If that’s not enough to make it your favourite too, just thing: what other astronomical body could you misspell as a type of Mexican food? (Which is exactly what I did when Googling it just now, despite Wikipedia’s warning.)
With these covers, Adobe are really going for the ‘Photoshop Elements is for little girls and if you had a pair you’d stump up the cash for Photoshop proper’ angle:
It’s interesting when a company tries to put people off buying one of their products. Luckily, I’m comfortable enough with both my masculinity and my lack of disposable income to be immune to such efforts.
From the Evening Standard:
The system of measuring alcoholic drinks in units could be scrapped under plans unveiled by the Conservatives today.
They say units are widely misunderstood and fail to take account adequately of differing strengths of drinks, such as beers and wines.
Unveiling a raft of public health reforms, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said units would be replaced by the actual number of centilitres of pure alcohol contained in each drink.
From Wikipedia:
In the United Kingdom, a unit of alcohol is defined as 10 millilitres (or approximately 8 grams) of ethanol (ethyl alcohol).
Problem solved!
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