Posts by TheFinn

PORK BELLIES!

Two words

Andromeda Strain

Chilling effects

Facebook to journalists: We did this to an organisation with the resources of the BBC. Investigate Facebook and be damned. Come and have a go if you think yer hard enough.

Quantum engagement?

So, diamonds could soon be a girl's best friend, and a girl's mortal enemy, simultaneously? Trippy, man!

...dog toffee?

I can imagine what this is, but I'm hoping it's rhyming slang I'm not aware of...

Was this story a first draft? What's wrong with these paragraphs...

Overall, the North West gets only per cent of total UK grants from Innovate UK, and Yorks/Humber only five per cent, while London gets 25 per cent and the South East 17 per cent. This means that hundreds of hard-pressed engineering firms in the north have been deprived of adequate support.

Instead, dozens of doubtful digital media firms – which hardly need the cash – have been millions of pounds – but will little tangle result in nearly all cases

What sort of choice does anyone ever have over buses? You get on the one that turns up - it's either the quick one, that goes straight there, or the other one, that goes 'round all-the-houses. And you only get to make that choice if you've got no need to be at your destination for a particular time, on any route in Manchester other than down Oxford Road! Christ, whaddaloddabollox!

Does anyone believe Echilon wasn't used to the same purpose? Really? And that the-powers-that-be were just useless at capitalising on it? Really?

Had problems, restarted phone, all better.

Err.....I don't think I have the right font installed....

Would've liked to have seen some sandals to finish off that ensemble

I dunno...

Doesn't sound very believable.

No innovation? Couldn't you have 16 players, on screen, on the PS version? Definitely 8, but even so, what else offered that level of party play? My compatriots and I still occasionally break it out for a spin

Has anyone noticed the Windows Linx tablet-with-snap-on-keyboard is never mentioned in Surface reviews? I've got one. It seems to have all the pluses and minuses of the Surface, and it was basically free

Hello? Anonymous?

...might be time to don your spandex pants in the name of justice, once again.

"...are still subject to recovery by the owners."

Please, will you moooove your vehicle.

The EXACTO round isn't intended for general use.

Pity. If it was, we might've stopped fetishising the special forces.

Ah, what're yer like!

Bloody well written! Even knowing the film, I got sucked in! The author should go into writing children's fiction!

Bloody loads of VR sets are about to hit the market but nooooooo, WE'LL take the FIRST! THAT'S mature thinking, innit?

"Personally, I think it might about time to start looking at old watch formats. After all, you can pack a lot more electronics and a larger screen into a fob watch and who knows, maybe we can bring waistcoats back at the same time?"

Yeah. Like we need more hipsters.

Errrr....

Don't want to apply my own condiment to anyone's slivers of potato, but it looks just like the orange gunk that collects around my taps. When was the last time the Antarctic had a proper steam-cleaning?

Frontier comments - now with added caveats!

Surely, you've omitted the words "any more" from the article title...?

"... but not without sending the ACLU a bill for $20,000 in "discovery fees" for copies of a series of pages from its website."

Chilling effect?

Imagine, turning up to the cinema to see Bill & Ted. Finding it sold out.

And watching Curly Sue instead.

Excellent lightsaber

...not only for dispatching enemies, but for whipping up an impromptu creme brulee!

I'm reminded of the bit in Men in Black

"This thing's going to replace cds in a coupla years. I'll have to buy The White Album again."

Practically infinite funds and influence, and the Recording Industry is still out of bounds.

Woo! 80s references!

Seen enough comet stuff now. Trading Places quotes are where the future's at!

Back pocket?

...in all this 'back-pocket testing', did they ever have their subject sit down?

I know they're running a business, not a charity, but Amazon could do itself a lot of good in the eyes of many of the retailers it's hurt by keeping the transaction fees super-low. Call it giving something back.

Deputized? Eh? Eh?

But was it a consensual deputization? Was the officer tempted with promises of promotion and spangly SWAT equipment? Or did the G-man offer the officer a battle they couldn't possibly win...?