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"Load the birdshot." I noticed the other day that there was a post in my seldom-checked Twitter feed — obviously “retweeted” by someone — by a girl stating that she had just cut her hand quite severely while dicing vegetables for dinner, and that she now needed to go and find herself a [...] "Have your people call my people. Let's do lunch." As you may know if you follow the news, have a television set, are connected to the internet, or have a pair of functioning eyes and/or ears, Facebook filed for its IPO yesterday. I don’t think there’s much doubt in anyone’s mind that this [...] Everyone knows the story of the Great American Romance. A boy and a girl meet at the soda shoppe, takes dad’s giant-finned Mercury to the ridge, watch the stars, drink some malt liquor, and make a little noise. The pharmacist would tell the boy that lamb skin maintains maximum sensitivity while failing to tell [...] While cell phones certainly made it more convenient to contact each other, it was the smartphone that really made people almost infinitely accessible. I’ve warned a number of co-workers that while they think getting an iPhone is cool, the moment they have their email with them everywhere, the expectation immediately becomes that they should [...] Courtesy of our own tenbeers, I recently stumbled upon a Facebook page that caught my interest and caused me to lose an hour or so of my afternoon. The page is called “Tweets Of Old“, and is a cleaned up, civilised version of a Twitter feed by the same name. The concept is very [...] I had CNN on in the background while eating breakfast on Sunday, and with no discernible volume I could only use what I could read on the screen to divine what it was they were talking about. Taken out of context, the headline on the bottom of the screen read “CRISIS IN [...] "How do I log on to Facebook with this?" In the early days of the Second World War, there was one weapon, more than any other, that determined the fate of Britain at the hands of the Luftwaffe. Some have argued that the Hawker Hurricane or the Supermarine Spitfire deserve the title; in [...] |
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