In Praise Of Mad Scientists
The ten IgNobel awards have just been awarded in front of a crowd of leading experts. The awards were set up in 1991 by the Annals of Improbable research to hail scientific research that ‘”that cannot, or should not, be reproduced’ and have the effect of to ‘first make people laugh, and then make them [...]
When Words Fail
The recent joint venture between the Nigerian Government and Russia’s Gazprom has caused much comment recently because of its name, Nigaz. This does conjour up images of a blinged Medevev and Putin offering to ‘Pimp My Oil Tanker’, but one can only wonder why nobody had noticed the poor choice of name.
The Towering Inferno – an investigation into the Berlaymont fire
As eurocrats scuttled away from the flames, apocalyptic preachers roamed around Schuman quoting the more excitable passages from the Book of Revelations but the emergency services
were feeling the pressure, as one senior policeman said, off the record, “We’ve got to hush this up, there’s a lot at stake”. Despite press releases trying to minimise the [...]
MEP’s Dive Into Fitness
There have been cynical mutterings about the claimed 5 million euro swimming pool that the European Parliament is supposedly building, and some are describing this as an example of financial fecundity.
Of course, examination of the supposed cost would expose this untruth for what it is. Five million is clearly far too much for a swimming [...]
Google Searches The Boulevards Of Brussels
The search giant has just sent a fleet of red Opels out on the streets to photograph Brussels for its Street View part of Google Maps. This could have some interesting results and people are going to be poring over the results.
In the past photos on Street View have caught out cheating partners, people skiving [...]
A Freudian Slip
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud Can our man help, maybe? Hmmm…
Well, I think it’s safe to say that women don’t really want a [...]
10 Reasons To Love Belgium
1. Because we have the best rain in the world.
Most countries measure rainfall by quantity, but Belgium’s precipitation can also offer a bewildering breadth of forms. From the merest hint of drizzle to the torrential downpours, nowhere beats Belgium for getting wet. It’s said in holy scriptures that Paradise is ‘a well watered garden’ and [...]
