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My Nabaztag/tag is not the only one that developed a floppy ear syndrome. It is now more and more likely that my wi-fi bunny will go back to the burrow whence it came, and it is very sad to see an innovative idea that is developed with style but not very much substance to sustain [...]

The TV programme Blue Peter is named after the 'blue peter' maritime flag that means the ship is ready to sail. This is because the programme is a journey of discovery and adventure.
Signed by The Hits is a tv show where music videos are signed for the hearing impaired, in the morning at 6.30 on [...]

Swans mate for life but cheat on partners.
Kissing reduces chances of cavities.
Hybristophiliacs are sexually aroused by people who have committed cruel or outrageous crimes.
The bisexual pride flag has pink and blue bands with an overlapping purple one in the middle.
Divorce was common in ancient Rome but only became legal in Italy in 1970, and was [...]

The average life sentence under Labour is 11 years (The Independent, 27 January 2007)
Captchas (distorted scattered characters on patterned background that users have to type to prove they are not a machine) have become more complex. This week I was asked to identify symbols and write the matching numbers from a correspondence chart provided underneath.
Biscuits [...]

Firefox lets you select an unlinked URL, drag it in the address bar and it will open it for you. Similarly, you can drag and drop an image from Firefox into Photoshop, or into a Windows folder. Also tried these in IE6 and IE7, but they both went 'Huh?'
T9 stands for text [...]

A new Icelandic vodka is on the market. Reyka Vodka is made by Scotch whisky maker William Grant & Sons: they built a distillery in Iceland to use lava-filtered pure water (i.e. ordinary water in Iceland) and geothermal energy (i.e. ordinary energy in Iceland) to produce it. Must taste soon to check if the flavour [...]