Posts by Kevin Perry

Glowing dust doughnut circles white dwarf

Grammar

You can't be "7 times smaller", you can be 1/7 the size or 7 times larger.

Facebook's UK wing paid just £4k in corporation tax last year

I always find it quite interesting (ie. annoying) that I pay tax on what income I get, not what "profit" I make (ie. what's left at the end of the paycheque after paying for essentials like food, mortgage, bills etc). If companies got treated the same, it would not only be more equitable but a damn site harder to avoid.

Another chance to win a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive

Book title

The cover for Stieg Larsson's less than successful "Girl with the 3D Printed Spider Tattoo".

Everything Everywhere to be Nothing Nowhere in rebrand

Poor service

Because that's what they currently offer.

Artificial leaf produces electricity through photosynthesis

Does it have to be exactly one gallon?

Or will any amount of water do?

Where's the pedant icon?

Devolo dLan AVplus

Across multiple RCDs

Yet to see this answered anywhere, but if the 2 sockets are on separate circuits (ie. each has its own RCD in the distribution unit), will they talk to each other?

ID card minister forgets ID card

Is it just me?

Or does anyone else keep reading Hillier as (appropriately) Hitler?

Astronomers spy 32 new exoplanets

Super-sized

So what do these planets gorge themselves on to get so fat?

Tories may cut Met Office funding

Good news

Considering how wrong the Met Office usually is, this is excellent news and something I've been suggesting to my MP for some time now.

Salty Saturn moon plumes suggest stuff of life

I for one...

...welcome our new salty spurting overlords. Er, hang on.

Egyptian cuts off todger to spite his face dad

Not so "prominent" now

Well, he's not!

Expedition to probe cavern lake 3km beneath Antarctic ice

HPL

Mountains of Madness *again*?