Ride through Chernobyl

GHOST TOWN is a pictorial and excusably odd English record of a trip on bike back through the Chernobyl dead zone. Very, very interesting.

Funky solids

Seems to be in the air today: have a look at a water soaked gummi bear and some freaky shots of aerogel.

Worst phrase ever

Plain English Campaign reports on the worst phrase ever. “At the end of the day” wins it. Time to tighten up my language. I tend not to use phrases like these very often, but then I am a consultant, so the occasional one slips in.

New words

The Washington Post’s Style Invitational has once again asked readersto take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting,or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are thisyear’s winners:Bozone (n.): The substance...

Chewing gum menace

We have to do something about chewing gum. It’s not just because I’ve never really got into chewing, its the gazillion pieces of trodden in gum that are on pretty well every street in central London. Look at the fan patterns outside any tube to see which...

Choice in search?

Yahoo dumps Google search technology and replaces it with something else. There’a another new search on the block as well.