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Apparently it wasn’t just the humans that deforested Easter Island.

Oh dear lord. British Universities really are producing some of the finest research of this millennium, aren’t they? Straight after the groundbreaking darts research we now have the perfect bacon sandwich. I mean really.

Yet again science goes to the pub and proves the obvious. I need to go back to Uni.

I’d like to see the source for this one, but apparently ‘trained sippers’ have found McDonalds coffee preferable to Starbucks. I’m still not going to actually go into a McDonalds to find out if they’re right though…

Hmm.. Today Alcatel announced that their research has discovered that the UK is disaffected with the Internet and that broadband providers should focus on family services to harness the “decision making power of women” and the “pester power” of children.

Not surprisingly the e-Envoy says that this is bollocks.

Personally I’ve been having a similar argument with some others in the industry - I love my broadband, but I’m a techie. I imagine that the home gateway will be the real solution to all of this - a black box that talks to your ADSL, your PVR, your games console, your MP3 enabled stereo and possibly your fridge (no seriously, look at that fridge link!). Until then it will only be people like me who can be bothered/aren’t scared to set up routers and wireless hubs and unallocated networks and so on and so on who are really going to make the most of it. My opinion, mind.

Steve Bowbrick of another.com tackles it another way, and I agree with him too. Broadband is always on, but has few unique applications and is currently hard to use. When we can make the most of the good points and make the bad points go away, then we’ll have broadband Britain.

The BBC reports that some scientists managed to kill mice by giving the doses of amphetamines and playing the prodigy to them… Read about it here.

If it’s anything like my experience of exactly the same circumstances at V97 I’m not very surprised.

Good news… Industry insiders say sales of ladies’ thongs now match those of traditional knickers

http://www.orange-today.co.uk/business/story/sm_649425.html

Unfortunately you then see this paragraph…

“Separate research suggests one in three women would wear no underwear beneath an evening dress five years ago, but with the rise in the popularity of thongs this had fallen to one in nine.”

So, more thongs = less commandoes. Not sure I’m so happy after all…