Category: Nice and curious

Burning joss sticks ‘as deadly as traffic fumes or cigarette smoke’

Is it true, as Wikipedia reports (possibly from this source), that people from Hertfordshire are nicknamed ‘Haycocks’ or ‘Hedgehogs’ in the same way that people from Yorkshire are ‘Tykes’?

The Register Author AnthonyPosted on 9 February 2007Categories Nice and curious

Wendell notes two AP stories on US attitudes to the forthcoming year. One is very downbeat, the other very upbeat – but based on the same poll data.

The audio of Monty Python’s How Not To Be Seen, with visuals courtesy of first-person shooter Halo. (via MeFi)

A blog with lots of great little graphs.

A relaxing, beautiful and unwinnable flash game: try and get a chain reaction going.

Which corporate logo looks most like a penis? B3TA decides.

A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.

Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.