- Arial is Monotype's version of Helvetica, and although the copy has long surpassed the original in popularity and spread of use, professional designers consider it a poor imitation of a font that is no longer fashionable.
- There are three types of human-animal embryos: hybrid embryos (egg fertilised with the sperm of another species), chimeric embryos (cells injected with genetic material from another species) and cytoplasmic hybrids (nuclei of human cells transferred into animal eggs). There is currently a proposal to ban chimera; detractors of the ban say it would hinder research.
- Agnetha Fältskog (the blond one from ABBA) was born exactly twenty years to the day before Dr B., and her name should be spelt Agneta - she added the H herself.
- Google Analytics access manager lets you give other people access to your stats, either with read-only permissions (fully or partially) or as an administrator. This can be useful if you have several Google accounts and you don't want to log in and out of them to view stats.
- The attendant that monitors the self-serve checkouts at Tesco can see how much change is given out, and if it is five pounds or more checks that the note is being picked up and alerts customers if it isn't.
- Mozilla is working on a mobile version of Firefox (for lack of a better definition), project name Minimo, currently version 0.2, only for Windows Mobile 5 or above.
- It takes four inner laps of Vauxhall Park to run a kilometre, or five laps of Cleaver Square's inner pavement, according to the Nike+ system I used this morning.
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