So, the Golden Jigsaw has finished. Despite aiming too high and having to dramatically change mid-way through, it ended up being something fun that we both enjoyed solving. The bad news is that we didn't win a prize, but hey, that's the luck of the draw ( Read more... )

So I had this idea: What if everyone in the country could make a new law? The caveat being that all contradictory proposals are discarded.

What law would you make? (Limited to 20 words).

Speculate play money in website popularity for fun and competition: http://www.urladex.com

Lightweight cross-platform PDF reader? 2.2Mb instead of about 70Mb?
http://www.foxitsoftware.com

As Dezzykitty did this, thought I would to ( Read more... )

Something I heard recently at work - It is illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork in Georgia (USA). This has got a reading on my bullshitometer, but sounds cool anyway :)

In the UK there is a particularly tasty brand of muesli, Jordon's cruncy crisp. It comes in 4 flavours - Strawberry, Raspberry, Raisin and 4 nut ( Read more... )

So for the last two weeks family and I have been in the good old US of A for the wedding of jiggery_pokery and dezzikitty. Much fun was had, but unfortunately for the whole 2 weeks, and no point were the 3 of us all of good health. I mean, to get gastroenteritis is unfortunate, but to then immediately follow that with influenza is surely just ( Read more... )

No-one seems to know which region of the country Oxford is in. If you go to one of those 'store finder' things, or are trying to find your town on a for that splits things by region, there really is a complete lack of concensus on the matter ( Read more... )

Quick heads-up to peeps that might not have heard of it. Channel 4 have a treasure-hunt style show called 'The Search' going on. The first 2 episodes were this weekend, the rest I think will be once per week. www.channel4.com/thesearch ( Read more... )