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Patti and I Visit The Royal Observatory - Photos

Yesterday, Patti and I visited the Royal Observatory and saw, amongst other things, stuff. Some of my favourite pictures are below, and you can see the full set on Flickr.

Katy Perry: Kisses Girls, Pisses Future

From the girl who brought you the brain damaged ‘Ur so gay’ comes another pitch for nothing more than the spare change of the world’s suckers — ‘I Kissed A Girl’.
Seriously, it’s a shame. It’s only slightly less depressing than seeing a girl, whose music I can’t stand but whose talent was obvious — Amy […]

Owning iPhones doesn’t make us friends

Apparently it may surprise a small number of people to know this, but simply owning an iPhone does not automatically make you friends with someone else who owns an iPhone.
I was on the train from the office the other night, reading the Web on my iPhone. Sat across from me was a girl, also using […]

Borat Lanxon - W760i review

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iPhone 3G kills three, in cinemas now

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Why do Apple laptop upgrades cost 200% more than Dell’s?

 
Everybody knows Apple laptops are pricey. You know it, Crave knows it, Steve Jobs knows it. We also have a fair idea that its PC-selling counterpart, Dell, is relatively cheap. But have you ever stopped to examine just how much more you pay for Apple upgrades than you do for Dell? We have.
Having trawled the […]

Wii Fat: How to cheat at Wii Fit

I’ve shot a new video for CNET: Wii Fat — 4 ways to cheat at Wii Fit!

It’s no secret that one of America’s biggest contributions to Western society has been fat people. And it’s spreading. Britain is becoming as bloated as our overseas friends and all it’s doing is giving Daily Mail readers more things […]

Eight Apple questions Clarissa didn’t explain

Hip TV teen Clarissa claimed to explain “it all” in the early 90s, but she failed to explain anything about our consumer electronics, 15 years ahead of the broadcast of her otherwise astute explanations.
To compensate for her miserable failure in this area, I shall pretend to be Clarissa, explaining some persistent questions about Apple […]

Computational theory of mind

I was thinking about the semantic Web earlier today, and it reminded me of when I was studying a theory of psychology (well, philosophy technically) for my A-Levels — the ‘Computational theory of mind’ — that likens the human mind to the internal design of a computer.
Emotion and self-awareness are really the two key factors […]

Movie & TV sell-outs: When tech product placements go bad

Cue gravelly voiced trailer man: “In a world where tech companies desperately want to look cool, there’s only one thing they can do — give ginormous sums of money to film and TV producers to use their stuff…”
Ever since an Apple PowerBook saved the world in Independence Day there’s been a powerful feeling that every […]