After The Wasp Factory, which shouldn’t last much longer than this evening, I am going to have a crack at this:
Some good Palimthoughts from the ever reliable Self here.
Sex hungry roaches lured to death
No comment required.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Sex hungry roaches lured to death
Synthetic sex pheromones are being developed as an ingenious way of luring randy cockroaches to their deaths.
Smarties set to lose their tube
Smarties to come in hexagonal tubes? Whatever next?
BBC NEWS | Business | Smarties set to lose their tube
Firefox Multiple Homepages
I only managed to figure out last night how to get Firefox to open multiple tabs on startup, each with a different page loading. And guess what? It was very simple to do.
Simple set your tabs up as you want at startup, and go to options and click ‘set as home page(s)’ It’s that little ‘s’ in parenthesis that’s important. Next time you start Firefox up, all the pages load.
Mine now starts with:
One issue with this is that everytime you hit the home page button on the browser toolbar, all four pages start loading in new tabs, meaning that you can end up with rather a lot of them!
A league of their own
John O’Farrell on the dearth of English players in the Premiership, following Arsenal’s all-foreign efforts this week:
This week, another football landmark was reached when a Premiership team fielded an entire squad of foreign players. “What is Arsene Wenger doing?” said the pundits. “I mean, OK, so Arsenal are 4-1 up, but they completely lack the homegrown talent of their opponents … Oh, hang on, now they’re 5-1 up.” In fact, it should have been six but we’re stuck with these useless English referees. “Where oh where are the top British players?” asked a fan at half time, sensing that he vaguely recognised the bloke serving him a reheated hotdog.