It was Sunday evening, and my friends and I were once again united in the local pub. My sister had kindly offered to drop me off, preventing me from getting soaked in the usual awful English weather.
With the rain hammering on the windows I took a sip of my beautifully smooth pint of bitter and [...]
Those of you who’ve been on the moon this past few months will have missed out on the debacle of a debate, “net neutrality” has become. Celebrated inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee has been very vocal of late, calling for Internet Service Providers, (ISPs), to not implement a plan of speeding up the bandwidth [...]
St Patrick’s Day has been moved this year to the fifteenth of March. Normally it’s celebrated on the seventeenth but it’s had to be shifted due to a conflict in the church’s calendar.
I recently decided to setup a guild on World of Warcraft called Knights of Noddegamra. For those yet to play the game, you can play a slightly limited (level cap, no ability to trade, and a few other minor bits) 10 day trial or purchase the full version quite cheaply now.
At the moment the guild [...]
Police in the Czech republic are trying to find out who stole a 4 tonne railway bridge from a disused stretch of line in the border town of Cheb.
The company which was responsible for looking after the bridge raised the alarm on Tuesday when, ever vigilant, they noticed that the bridge wasn’t there any more.
Martina [...]
The Guinness book of World Records is a marvelous tome, featuring as it does a whole host of human feats, both of endurance and of stoicism. Many of the records feature fantastic heroics by both sportsmen and ordinary people, pushing themselves to the limit and besting everyone else in their chosen field. What we like [...]
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That’s right, how else do you try and get past building regulations and planning permission?
Robert Fidler wanted to build himself a mock-Tudor castle, so he did, behind a 40ft stack of hay bales covered by huge tarpaulins. Once finished, he and his family moved there for four years before revealing it to the public in [...]