I was browsing a web forum, in particular one thread on the complexity of the english language when some member posted the following: “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural [...]

[revised & updated] Part 2 of our design critique of NI Political Party websites we take another look at the same set of websites to see if they have actually made any improvements. The majourity of the sites made no significant changes.

Another story from the Guardian. It’s a year to the day that US troops helped pull down a statue of Saddam in Bagdad. Whatever you think of the war, whether US/UK should have invaded or not, you have to admit that the war is far from over. You’d think that the experience of the US [...]

News from the Guardian, and also covered in a number of other sites, “pornography and spam continue to flood email inboxes despite government attempts to stem the tide”. “New laws passed last December made it a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, to send spam to private email addresses”. They could have asked me and [...]

“It has long been thought that ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, breeding wild felines to create a distinct new species around 4,000 years ago … But the new evidence pushes the human-cat relationship back another 5,000 years” Apparently French reseachers discovered a grave of a human with their cat which was about [...]