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- Don't Carp About Your Cold Turkey
Dec 31, 2008
Count your blessings; there's worse things to look at in the New Year than the remains of the Christmas bird. In Eastern Europe it's cold carp that...
Category: Society and Culture
- Carol Vorderman: Countdown To The End Of The Ignorant Celebrity?
Dec 31, 2008
Carol Vorderman, Jade Goody and Winston Churchill all failed to impress their teachers. But is education now more important than celebrity when it...
Category: Careers and Jobs
- A Short History Of The Muppets
Dec 29, 2008
The Muppets are perhaps the best known puppets in the world. This article explores how they came to be and their slow rise to fame.
Category: Humor
- Fallible Apple - Three Apple Gadgets That Didn't Take
Dec 12, 2008
Apple have not always had the success we see today. This article takes a brief look at three gadgets the people behind the iPhone have produced...
Category: Operating Systems
- I Have a Complaint! A Look at the World of Outrage and Complaint in the British Media
Nov 26, 2008
With the recent furore over the offensive radio broadcast made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross still fresh in everyone's minds, we take a look...
Category: Society and Culture
- Is The Tomb Raider Franchise Dead?
Nov 26, 2008
Tomb Raider games and their world-famous heroin, Lara Croft have been staples in the software collections of gamers across the globe since 1996....
Category: Software
- Puff Puff Give: The Great Cannabis Debate Continues
Nov 26, 2008
Now a class C drug, the government are thinking of re-categorising cannabis back to Class B. This articel covers the main arguments of both sides.
Category: Society and Culture
- Three Strange European Christmas Traditions
Nov 25, 2008
Christmas is coming and with it come a whole host of rituals and traditions that have become commonplace in the USA and UK. In some areas of Europe...
Category: Holidays
- The Con Of The '60s : A Look At The Reality Behind The Decade Synonymous With Peace And Love
Nov 19, 2008
Today the 1960s are viewed with the warming sparkle of nostalgia: Hendrix, The Beatles, peace, love, drugs, flowers and freedoms. However, with the...
Category: History
- Worst Case Scenarios : Zombie Outbreak
Nov 16, 2008
A tongue in cheek guide to surviving a zombie outbreak this Halloween. All you'll ever need to know to escape the shambling undead hordes should...
Category: Humor
- Gossip or Gospel: Are Women the Real Victims of the Celebrity Culture?
Nov 13, 2008
Following Kerry Katona's disastrous interview on This Morning last week, a group of British academics claim that the harsh backlash she received...
Category: Society and Culture
- Brand New Second Hand: How Big Brands Help A Flailing Music Industry
Oct 14, 2008
With UK album sales on the decline, musicians are constantly striving to find the next best way of marketing their music. Enter the big named...
Category: Branding
- BANNED ADS: A Look At Some Of The Most Risque Ad Campaigns Ever
Oct 10, 2008
With the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling to outlaw the 'Cactus Kid' Oasis commercials this week, we look at some of the most famous...
Category: Television
- LIFTING THE BAN: Celebrating 40 Years Since The End Of Theatre Censorship
Oct 2, 2008
Theatre censorship was abolished 40 years ago this month. Here's a look back at the playwrights and the people that overturned centuries of...
Category: Society and Culture
- The History Of Halloween: The Facts Behind The Fiction
Sep 22, 2008
A brief history of Halloween, from the folk beliefs of Europe to the commercial candy-bonanza of the modern holiday. This article explores the...
Category: Society and Culture
- Les Enfants Magnifique: A Look At Some Of The Most Influential Young Artists Of Recent Times
Sep 22, 2008
Often culture seems to be driven by the youngest and most dynamic artists in the field. Proof, it may be argued, that 'experience is often just the...
Category: Music
- Special Brew Supernova And Marvellous Musical Marketing
Sep 18, 2008
You can't just release an album today without employing some clever marketing strategy. Radiohead released their latest work of art through the...
Category: Music
- Real Monsters: Five Of The Scariest Creatures Of All Time
Sep 15, 2008
A list of the five most terrifying creatures to have ever walked/crawled/swam the earth.
Category: Science
- RFID - More Interesting Than You Realised
Sep 12, 2008
Radio Frequency Identification technology has been around for years but now it is starting to be used in new and exciting ways. RFID could soon...
Category: Hardware
- The Large Hadron Collider: Making Physics (Almost) Interesting
Sep 12, 2008
The end of the world, black holes, and anti-matter: it's all exciting stuff but how much of it is actually true and how much should be consigned to...
Category: Science
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