Thursday, 28 April 2011

Cereal Killers

Gotta have my bowl, gotta have toys in cereal! Remember the days when you bought your box of cornflakes, or coco pops, or whatever it may be. And the big exitement was the toy inside, thats what everybody always wanted. I think the British were a lot different to Americans in how we gained 'the glorious prize'. Americans saw it as more of a prize 'that will choose its owner'. And therfore the prize belonged the whoevers bowl it fell into. Here in Britain we took a very selfi...different approach. It was simply first to open the box and dig out...

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Super Powers - Laser Vision

In this series of blogs I will be observing the various super powers that we'd all love to have. I'll look at the pro's and cons and see what we all think we could do with the powers. These powers won't necessarily be needed to act as a super hero, they could simply be thier to make your life easier. At the end of the each blog i will give a verdict on these abilities - Super? or Stupid? Laser vision is a bit of an odd one. It's not one that many people would claim to want when given the option to have a super power. But it is a power...

The Power of Facebook - Part 1

Last month I asked my followers to tweet my some random facts. One that really caught my attention came from @TomCallan. He said that 'if Facebook was a country it would be the 3rd biggest in the world.' Now this really fascinated me. It's a lot of people. Lets put it into perspective. China has over 1.3 Billion people, making it the highest populated country in...

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Wierd World 1

The world is a wierd place. We're always talking about wanting to meet aliens, and trying to make new great discoveries. But thiers so many great things that happen around us that we know very little about, simply because it's not given that much coverage. In this series of blogs i'm going to just give you few bits of information that i thought were interesting, or just a bit odd. Some are odd stories that you may not know, others are just wierd world records that show some of the strange things in our world. Hand Amputations Some guy from New...