Cup Of Coffee

Let me just see if I’ve got this right. Richard Branson has opened his new Spaceport. It’s where very rich people will take off and enjoy a short time in space. The Spaceport is called “Spaceport America” and cost $209 million to build, but part of that was funded by the US taxpayer. I wonder [...]

Here’s the 1986 Tandy Christmas Catalogue followed by the much older 1976 Argos Catalogue. Retro. Baby.

Billy does this. Kids grow up thinking that magazines and TV screens should be touch-sensitive..

Poor old Vax. Dyson has come along and vacuumed up the market (or should that be hoovered?) They’re pretty screwed so, with Dyson taking Patents out everywhere, Vax have just copied the shit out of every Dyson vacuum cleaner. It’s not just the odd likeness either, they’re cloned. Same colours, same styles, same everything almost. [...]

Hey Mr BBC, if you want to save money, why not close some of your crappy local radio stations? OK, perhaps that’s going too far. Why not reduce the power of them at least? Here in the West Midlands I can get BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC [...]

I guess I could fit this into a tweet, but heck – Twitter is killing the traditional blog so I’m rebelling. Eat that Twitter… …oh bum.. this is going to get posted automatically on Twitter anyways… Doah. Well, after the rather glorious weather this weekend (shorts and sun-tan lotion in October here in the UK [...]

Open this up in HD if you’ve got the bandwidth and stick it into full screen. Lovely stuff..

eBay is a great resource and can help you save stacks of cash. However, it does reveal those “real people” who use the internet. Let me explain myself a little. I often think that people reading this blog are pretty intelligent and work in IT or similar roles. There are those, however, who sit on [...]