Bugging the culinary operating system
Elevating food to celebrity status has turned the theory of motivation upside down. It’s time to stick one up the foodies.... Read more.
EU election monitoring… junket, joke or both?
“The Afghan elections were fair, but not free,” declared European election monitors. Meaningless sound-bite or what?... Read more.
Rude Mediterranean awakening in Croatia
“Croatia, the Mediterranean as it once was,” the ad says. I didn't realise that meant rude.... Read more.
That joke isn’t funny any more
What passes as a good joke in the office or at a party nowadays? Not much, it seems, unless you’ve got your smart phone programmed to prompt you with context-... Read more.
Mind your thumbspeak, no one else will
Deciphering hieroglyphs is much more fun than decoding the 'thumbspeak' of SMS texting.... Read more.
Faking the meaning of life
It’s bad enough, in the Friends era, being able to quote Ross Geller – the nerdy palaeontologist – but being fully versed in the McDreamy language of Grey... Read more.
Revenge of the ‘baby doomers’
Could the disgruntled ‘baby doom’ generation turn on Europe’s baby boomers?... Read more.
Psion of things to come – technology’s curse
Christian Nielsen’s long-dead Psion Organiser is a constant reminder never to buy any technology that promises to help him remember things.... Read more.
