Yorkshire Bitter

You know how all those companies make you use those expensive 0870 and 0845 numbers so they can make money out of you while you wait on hold to get through to someone at a call centre?
Press 1 if it’s annoying.
Press 2 if it gets on your tits.
Press 3 if you’d rather get your teeth […]

Plus ça change…
All you iPod users who think you’re at the cutting edge of fashion, check out the Regency TR-1 transistor radio, made in 1954. See something familiar about the basic design and range of colours? And how about the advertising slogan? “See it! Hear it! Get it!”
Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with Apple […]

Over to Sky News for live pictures of the biggest disaster to hit Texas in decades. It has already cost nearly 2,000 American lives and could lead to many more…

Kate Moss may have got up the nose of a few feminists over the years but there’s more than a whiff of hypocrisy surrounding her fall from grace.
Considering that much of the fashion industry, many of its advertising executives and a number of tabloid journalists enjoy the odd line of Charlie, I think it’s a […]

Sir Cliff Richard has vowed never to make another record because of what he calls the “unofficial ban” on his music by radio stations. Link
The born-again Christian, who used to be known as the Peter Pan of Pop, but is looking a bit leathery these days, brought untold misery to generations of music lovers in […]

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Back from a Friday night of bangin’ techno at Sankeys Soap in Manchester. Canada’s Richie Hawtin brought his own brand of minimalist magic (and a disturbingly 1980s haircut) to the controls, with up-and-coming Detroit minimalist Magda as support.
I haven’t seen Sankeys this rammed since the Plump DJs played the after-party following the […]

Here we go again, muppets queuing up at petrol stations in a fresh round of panic buying because of new fuel tax protests.
And once more we have the greenies telling us that Britain needs to have some of the highest petrol taxes in the world to “save the planet”.
That, of course is why vehicle fuel […]

Virus writers have created a Trojan horse virus which tries to disrupt pornographic websites by displaying messages from the Koran, The Register reports.
The Yusufali-A trojan monitors the websites Windows users are visiting. If the malware sees one of a set of trigger words (such as “teen”, “sex” or “penis”) in the URL it minimises the […]