Archive for the ‘Main’ Category

Your App’s Website Sucks

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

An insightful, if somewhat cynical look at how not too design a website which accompanies your App Store app.

Party Cat

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Party cat likes to party.

Too stupid to understand science?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Why has this movie not been made?

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

…a fictional 2006 FIFA World Cup Finale between Germany and Netherlands. When the team from Germany loses, they send out as revenge a Zombie invasion

(Taken from Wikipedia)

Why? God dammnit why?

You came to the wrong neighbourhood…..

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The Dunning–Kruger effect, and it explains a lot……

Monday, December 28th, 2009

The definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect, aken from Wikipedia:

…is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”…

Which can be summarised as:

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

This explains a lot, don’t you think?

Homeopathy is an ancient, pre-scientific and absurd pseudoscience

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Homeopathy is an ancient, pre-scientific and absurd pseudoscience. Yet it persists today as an accepted complementary medicine, largely because people don’t know what it is.

The 10:23 Campaign aims to show the public what homeopathy is and explain how we know it doesn’t work.

Click here to find out more.

The Apollo Hoax Promoters

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

The most interesting, not to mention entertaining, proponents of the Apollo Hoax theory are:

  1. Bill Kaysing – the “father” of the Apollo hoax theory.
  2. Ralph Rene – conspiracy theorist and ardent hoax supporter.
  3. David Percy and Mary Bennet
  4. Marcus Allen
  5. Bart Sibrel – conspiracy theorist, ardent hoax supporter and film maker. He was famously punched by Buzz Aldrin after accusing the astronaut as being “a coward, a liar and a thief” – see the youtube video here.

What the hell…..?

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Whilst wandering around t’internet I came across this google advert:

google advert

Why?

A quiet moment…

Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Syd (left) and Prince, spend a moment of quiet contemplation.

Syd (left) and Prince, spend a moment of quiet contemplation.