Not updated in aaaaages, really need to work on that. I think I need a tighter definition of stuff to write about. Anyway...my brother has just started up his own business making customised birthday/whatever cakes. He's really good, he's got a temporary site up at the moment (to be replaced by something more in depth soon) here - cakeking.co.uk. So, if you're in Tameside, Manchester or Stockport and need a cake. Check him out. :-)

This is the sort of thing I love about the internet - justcurio.us. You go there and you get to ask a question, any question you like. The only condition is that you answer one of the questions someone else has asked first - you don't have to answer the first one you're given, you can keep clicking through and getting random questions until you get one you can answer. You answer, then you can ask your question...which gets thrown into the pot of random questions to be given to people who visit the site. Very cool idea. :-)

justcurio.us

Well, if Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi is actually right, and the cause of earthquakes is actually women not dressing modestly, the experiment conducted today has actually destroyed the world and this post is going out to an even smaller audience than usual.

On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I'm sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn't rumble. And if we really get through to him, maybe it'll be one involving plate tectonics.

So, as they say, get your tits out. It's for science.

From blaghag

One of my all-time, favourite "classic" links on the net - how to destroy the earth

A quote from the introduction...

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth is built to last.

Not posted for a while, mainly because I've been busy getting engaged and trying to get my bloody log in here to work again! Anyway...

Pay Day Loans

Just in case you've buried your head in the sand since this recession began (and, hey, I wouldn't blame you - it'd be a more effective strategy than the current government's approach) you might not have noticed the huge amount of exposure so called "pay day loans"; short-term, small-ish loans have gained lately.

Some of the interest-rates these companies advertised are OUTRAGEOUS. Quick Quid for example, advertise a MASSIVE typical 2356% APR. Frankly, I think it's disgusting, as do plenty of others. Join us on the Facebook group, or on Twitter.

...and for the love of GOD, if you're desperate enough for money that you're considering going to one of these places...think twice. You may actually get a better APR from your local, friendly loan shark.

So, the world didn't end today in a massive, man-made black-hole created when the LHC finally powered back up. :-) I was thinking about it - clearly, all this hub-hub about it creating a black-hole was bollocks...but it did CERN such a huge favour! Twitter was going absolutely mental at lunchtime when they were doing the experiment. If it wasn't for the stupid journalists and their sensationalism, how many people would really have cared or even known what happened today? A use for journalists after all? Has the world gone mad?