Posts by Kevin Lloyd

Neighbours cop an earful from screaming Swedish w*nker

Should be equivalent

to the journo's go-to reference point of of either a shotgun blast or a screaming baby and the respective decibel level, whichever is deemed the greatest.

Canon crossbreeds mouse with adder

I'm not fussed...

...either about the calculator functionality but purely in terms of ergonomics the peripheral looks like a step back to the mid-nineties.

Italian and Swiss cops cuff 15 Anonymous suspects

@Clare

Or...

"Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated...but, like people, some of them are just jerks."

- The Simpsons, [1F15] Bart Gets An Elephant

Time will tell the wiser.

Mystery of David Attenborough's garden skull cracked

To the utter astonishment of everyone

The Daily Mail resisted the opportunity to snipe at the police with a headline like "Now bungling cops take 132 years to solve London murder". I fully expected to see a footnote that read "Richard Littlejohn is on holiday."

LHC dimensional apocalypse from midnight: Your thoughts

Planetary soup

If you're going to make planetary soup, you're going to need some mighty big croutons. I hope the finest minds in science have taken this into account. Failing to do so would be simply churlish.

Malware cleans out jailbroken iPhones

Where has this been observed?

With the Rick-Rolling incident, it hadn't been observed outside Australia at the time of writing. Has there been any discussion of where this has turned up?

Zeppelin-borne boffins in Bay Area alien 'extremophile' hunt

Glass-reinforced plastic construction?

You're confusing it with a Reliant Robin, surely?

Canon PowerShot G10

Is that a technical term?

"We noticed a fair bit of what serious snappers call 'purple fringing' "

I thought serious snappers called that 'chromatic aberration' - or is that just us pesky amateur upstarts?