- Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy was the original lyricist and singer with Duran Duran. He left the band the year before they signed with EMI.
- Caffeine relaxes the internal anal sphincter muscles.
- Safari now has a 'Develop' menu. Among other things, it also emulates other browsers.
- Ofcom allocates unused telephone numbers for drama purposes. You can spot them because they usually range from 496 0000 to 496 0999 for thirteen main area codes.
- The lyrics in 'Bleeding Love' do not go 'You cut me up and, and I…' but 'You cut me open and I…' – I only noticed when I heard The Wombat's version of the song on the NME 2008 Awards covers compilation.
- The price of NHS prescriptions is set to 7 pounds 10 pence (as of 1 April 2008) regardless of how much drugs cost.
- Radiologists at Shanghai's school of medicine use iTunes to organise medical PDFs so that they can be searched and categorised with ratings and multiple tags.
Posted by Luca in
7 things on Saturday 9 August 2008.
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