Posts by Gavin Grayson

US boffins tune into carbon nanotube radio

Black Sabbath...

...are a Heavy Metal/Rock outfit - definately not Goth!

ABC fined $1.43m for NYPD Blue a*se flash

Sounds like...

.. most of the FCC take it up the a*se on a regular basis then if a buttock is deemed to be a sexual organ...

/pedant mode

The excretory organ part is also nonsense as it's the anus rather than the buttock...

/end

New Bond film title voted a 'Licence to Thrill!'

I'm surprised...

... that the BBC could even spell the title correctly given the recent number of speeling mistooks in it's website news articles.

Microsoft prints get-out-of-jail card for Vista Home

...like fitting wheels to a rotten tomato ....

more like...

Village shaken by GPS-driven tank invasion

Someones been playing too much Medal of Honour ;-)

" I'm thinking the residents either need a PanzerShrek each, or the pure might of the Download Festival from the nearby race track!! "

Crucial solid-state drive passes vibrator test

hmmm...

Given the title I was expecting to see another type of vibration production equipment and host of busty maidens, sorry technicians, to demonstrate...

Revealed: USB 3.0 jacks and sockets

I don't believe it!

They're still using rectangular sockets! Backwards compatibility is sooooooooooo overrated...

USB 'compact cassette' promises 1980s nostalgia, home taping

Ouch!

£80-£100 is a bit steep to convert old hissy tapes. Surely most titles can be found on usenet or P2P these days? Having said that - I do have a recording of Twisted Sister broadcast from the Reading Festival in 1982 that I wouldn't mind having on my iPod!