How To Become A Wine Connoisseur

"Darling you look so ladylike with that ENTIRE bottle of wine in your glass."

"Phantom Eye" Hydrogen-powered Spy Plane Unveiled

Boeing has unveiled its unmanned hydrogen-powered spy plane which can fly non-stop for up to four days. The new high-altitude plane, called Phantom Eye, can fly at altitudes of 20,000m (65,000ft), according to Boeing spokespeople.

It is a product of Boeing's secretive Phantom Works research and development arm and could be used for "persistent intelligence and surveillance".

"We flew Condor [the company's previous reconnaissance drone] for 60 hours in 1989 on regular jet fuel, and that was the maximum," said Chris Haddox from Boeing Phantom Works. "Now we're talking 96 hours."

Big Brother is alive and well and grinning down at you with a devilish leer.

Source: www.boeing.com

The Simpsons Megaposter

Ever wondered who voices who in The Simpsons? Wonder ye no more, for this Simpsons Megaposter will show you. Unless you're a Simpsons uberfan there will be a few surprises here...

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Detached Shark's Eye vs Scientist's Knife

A team of scientists recently dissected a dead shark to evaluate it's highly-evolved body parts one at a time. It made fascinating viewing, particularly when one of the scientists took a knife to the shark's detached eye...

The scientists' findings? Shark's are tough mothers from top to bottom.

Star Wars: Fans Mourn Decline In Standards.

Note to "Pedigree" graphic artist: It might be an idea to ensure body parts are in proportion before going to press. Just a thought. (You really didn't notice Vader's head is almost twice the size it should be? Or were you going for the Rick-Moranis-in-Spaceballs look on purpose!?)

Gah! We hate these cheap annuals that get churned out year after year. Not enough time, thought or passion went into creating this. If that's how you're gonna approach this franchise in future, we say don't bother. The force is weak with this one.

The Worst Football Dives Of All Time

Ah, the Beautiful Game. It has poetry of movement, skill and team spirit in abundance, but honour? Well... That can be a little more hard to find in certain players.

Take a look at this montage of highly paid professional athletes (and role models) feigning injury to gain an advantage over their opponents.

Warning: Some of these are ridiculous.

"Ve Hav Vays Of Making You Talk."

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British representation conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement: "We have to be receptive to slight changes which may ensure easy adoption throughout all member states" said a British spokesman. "With this in mind we have accepted a 5 year phase-in plan to introduce "Euro-English" throughout the zone."

Allow us to outline the changes to you in more detail:

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.

Cloning Breakthrough: Dinosaurs Walk The Earth Once Again!

We finally cracked it folks. Dinosaurs have been brought back from the dead and here's the video to PROVE it.

(Tourist footage from Circular Quay, Sydney, AU.)

Apparently some clever scientists extracted blood from mosquitoes which had feasted on dinosaurs millions of years ago. The mosquitoes were perfectly preserved in amber, keeping all of those bits of DNA gristle intact. Obviously, these blood samples require only a rudimentary amount of genome sequencing to 'retro-create' a clone. And hey presto, a dinosaur.

The things they can do nowadays... Incredible huh?