It’s been a busy weekend, and tomorrow we have the first meeting with the hotel to start to get our wedding organised. I’m pretty frazzled right now, so here are some stories that are taking up some of my headroom at the moment:
Smart brains grow differently says the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. According to this study the difference between a clever person and his/her peers isn’t down to different amounts of brain matter, but the way it developed during childhood. It’s an interesting idea, and surely the first time I’ve ever heard that being thicker actually makes you cleverer.
UK music chart history made as a track hits number 1 based on download sales alone. That Ostrovsky kid? Yesterday’s news. It’s an interesting turning point to reach, I wonder what will follow. If movies move down the legal download route, will this be taken into account when calculating the film’s takings? What about ratings for TV shows available for download on iTunes?
Ethan Phillips in the new Transformers movie? I’m tempted to say that as long as he’s not being Neelix, whatever he’s in is fine by me. Along with the announcement that Shia LaBeouf is negotiating for a role, this is starting to get exciting for me. What can I say? A part of me is still that excited kid in 1986 getting scared as Orson Welles threatened to eat entire planets.
Bill Thompson: Apple hardware has had more of an impact than the Punk culture. I was a little late for the whole punk scene, being but a slip of a lad. I was more into the embarassing shellsuit fashion phase. Makes for interesting and amusing reading though, especially when he talks about a mac being used at a music event. “I couldn’t help thinking that if a Windows desktop had been revealed then there would have been a collective gasp and some of the more sensitive members of the audience would have fainted.”
Fingerprints may give hints as to lifestyle. Who needs the National I.D. card system or the nationwide database so beloved of Charles “1984 is for pussies” Clarke? Let your fingers do the talking…or, in this case, the turning you in.
A roundup of this year’s April Fool’s Day stories in the papers. This year I didn’t even get a chance to search them out. For my money the Panorama Swiss Spaghetti Harvest is still the best, but some of this year’s efforts are worth a look.
Later this week on the egg: time travel and advice to my younger self; the importance of glazed nipples; and all go on the wedding front. Keep ’em peeled and keep that browser turned eggward.
April 10th, 2006 at 5:56 am
The importance of glazed WHAT now?
April 11th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Well as it happened it wasn’t later in the week, but the story is being drafted up now. You read right – glazed nipples. All important. Keep ’em peeled (your eyes that is, not your nipples!).