This & That, Ceci et Cela

How you use a mouse is very personal.  Soon the way you use your mouse could help prove who you are. Scientists have found a way for people to sign their name online using a mouse instead of a pen. Surely this would be easier to accomplish by using a digital drawing pen/stylus with tablet to record your signature?  Using a pen would create a ...

Stacey Champ has been reunited with her mother after the 14-year-old ran away with a middle-aged man. The mother and daughter met up on Monday afternoon at an undisclosed location in Kent. Stacey disappeared from her Gillingham home on 28 August with 46-year-old David Milner. Mother overjoyed? Cases like this irritate the hell outta me because if the mother had brought her ...

Fish are socially aware creatures who do not deserve their dim-witted reputation, leading scientists say. Rather than simply being instinct-driven, the group says fish are cunning, manipulative and even cultured. I'm deducting that the scientists discovered this after they had tea with an esteemed school of fish recently.  The Queen probably hailed the decision to have tea with the fishies as "landmark good form".

STOP limiting query term to 10 words; why disable the user from using a 48-word boolean string to achieve highly relevant results? Eg, I need to find more on the type of apple served at a dinner party last week. For whatever reason, I'm unable to contact the host/hostess/cook directly to confirm. So I decide to google it. Maybe a general search does not reveal any ...

Purple planet band could be next big thing IF they get their marketing/logistics/touring act together. Excellent rock, song after song after song. You know how you get sick of buying a CD for 1 good song heard on the radio and perhaps find 2 more good songs on the whole thing? Or how you catch a live gig only to hear only about 2-3 songs you ...

Fourteen freed European hostages may only just be arriving home after being held in the Sahara desert, but some politicians in Germany are already suggesting that one of their first trips should be to the bank. There has been no confirmation that a ransom was paid to their kidnappers, but the German media are taking it as read that Mali, the poverty-stricken West African state ...

There's just no other way to describe a day in the life of an airport security officer in Jamaica. Someone somewhere has the job of watching people shit, then wading/poking through it. That would be the Jamaican officers observing bowel movements of detained suspected drug-smugglers in order to verify whether they swallowed sachets of coke (BBC). Very fragrant duty.

Another reason why one must live in a round house:

Domes save energy because there is less surface area per square foot to heat or cool compared to the square or rectangular home. It also allows wind to blow around it rather than into it. Variations: geodesic domes & monolithic domes. Geodesic domes, sold mostly in kit form, are formed by joining pyramid-shaped tetrahedrons together. These dome are usually framed in wood and the outside is covered by ...

Between Amazon & Google, there is next to no information on curvilinear architecture, curved/round buildings, or architecture in the round.  Noted source exceptions: Roger Dean and the monolithic dome sites.