It wound up spelling a remarkably inappropriate word, I figured that they'd fix it in a few milliseconds and didn't feel like preserving the error for posterity.

I am sure that they recognised it immediately. It was "account" in the first sentence.

That's one of the most unfortunate typos I've ever seen.

New story today is that they hacked the phones of the families in several other missing child cases, and those of the victims of the July 7 terrorist attacks.

Well, exactly. If this were just a concept it would probably look like some £100 dream gadget with aluminium edging and all kinds of crap, but this is something that was conceived to be built and actually bought by people, and that's reflected in its design.

I assume it looks cheap and plasticky because it was actually built, and not just rendered by some bored internet type. A big part of being a designer is being able to lead products from conception to physical entity, and presumably the project was intended to teach and assess those abilities.

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Most LCD TVs ship with a cold colour balance that make them look cool, high-tech, and bright, at the cost of making everything look too blue. A side-effect of this is that everything else looks kind of yellow (warm-coloured) by comparison.

2/3 the number of subpixels means 2/3 the actual resolution. The quoted resolution makes some assumptions about how the brain interprets what is, ultimately, a lower resolution with some subpixel rendering.

It looks to me that the case doesn't actually cover the antenna on either side.

"Use your computer as an alarm clock!"

"Almost all scientific experiments are set up to prove something that is assumed to be true and at best to provide incremental progress on an extremely small scale."

Science is not just about proving and disproving - it's also about understanding. For example, the study you cite that indicates depressive patients have poorer adherence to their medication regime:

Yes, that seems quite likely to be the primary cause. I think a proper investigation of this could help a lot of related conditions.

If you wash your clothes, then they'll fluoresce under UV light. Modern detergents include fluorescent colouring agents for that "whiter-than-white" look. That suggests an obvious source for the fibres...

I don't think one person's inability to identify something trumps an existing, valid identification. It doesn't work for fibres any more than it does for UFOs.

Here we go:

Spine reads May 2011. Barcode reads March.

Use of Weapons is the perfect introduction to the Culture (the first Culture book written, I believe) but so much of its greatness is wrapped up in its structure and the way past and present play against one another that I think it's unfilmable. You could tell the story, but you couldn't do it justice as a piece of…

Sometimes "they're delusional" is the disorder. I think the stigmatisation of mental illness is the real issue here, the false dichotomy of "you're crazy"/"you're not crazy" that makes it very, very difficult for people to address the idea that what their brain is telling them, despite a great body of conviction,…