Hopefully this is all a knee-jerk reaction by prosecutors that’ll blow over.

How many of us have told horrible jokes as children?

An aside: I remember hearing (on a ‘This Week in Tech’ podcast, I think) that society uses dark humor to collectively deal with stuff going on. There was the example of dead-baby jokes becoming prolific in the 80s(?) following lots of cot deaths of a plague, or something… Wish I could find the details now!

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This is my favourite picture from the Endeavour’s trip across LA. Captures the size of the orbiter, and especially its engines.

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Looks like a cool project. There’s lots of people making fan films, which is awesome. I love how the Internet allows people to share stuff they’ve made.

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Crikey, Britishisms are everywhere. Call it Anglocreep. Call it annoying. Snippets of British vernacular — “cheers” as a thank you, “brilliant” as an affirmative, “loo” as a bathroom…

The next time an American “mate” asks you to “ring” her on her “mobile” about renting your “flat” during your “holiday,” it’s fair to ask, have we all become Madonna?

Apparently, Americans are watching too many BBC TV shows. And they like to sound posh.

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Me and Oscar found this when browsing YouTube this morning. It’s a long tedious video, but very impressive. Once it takes off it looks and sounds like a real (fullsize) jet. Then 30s after that, I started to wonder how the landing would be…

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