…but not in quite the way you’d imagine. From ThisIsGloucestershire, one of the most tenuous articles TheEye has spotted in years. Might as well quote the whole thing so that you don’t think you’re missing anything of the detail: OWNERS of parrot Seve Ballesteros have today said they were shocked […]

TheEye – cursed with 24 hours of spirit-crushing nonsense, can only offer a ridiculous post today. In contrast to a spectacular charge when co-conspirator and all round top bloke Max Farquar got 130,000 hits in a single day, TheEye has been dealing with local government bureaucracy and pencil-pushers with repressed […]

For our overseas readers who don’t know, the Sunday Sport is the lowest of the low when it comes to newspapers. The most embarrassing of UK tabloid rubbish. It makes the National Enquirer in the US look professional. Relaunched today and don’t you wish it hadn’t been. So, in keeping […]

Intrepid global scoop-seeker microdave has been in bloodhound mode today. Seeking out the hottest news on the stands. And today it is….the relaunched Sunday Sport. We’ve documented microdave’s dash between petrol stations for a copy and we’ve been spellbound during his between-meals search for truth. Awesome stuff. And here it […]

Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style ‘finger-nose stylus’ that lets you use your phone hands free, reports Wired. He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use his touchphone in the bath. A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device […]

To be filed under You’ve Got To be Bloody ‘Avin’ A Larf. Cutting edge research from one of nature’s true biodiversity hotspots: You are alive, but just how alive? We know that species live under our beds or in our backyards. But how many living organisms are on a square […]

Daftness from TheLocal as we find that people are doing what people always do with office furniture – except now with stopwatches. The newspaper even files it under their “Sports” section which seems unnecessarily like taking the piss. Luxembourger Pierre Feller beat out the homegrown talent to win the downhill […]

Soooo, okay then. This is an interesting idea reported by the BBC on Friday. The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children’s show Sesame Street.In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID – the development arm of the US government – is […]

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Here’s one for the splendid Captain Haddock to investigate and report back on for us all. Are you a sea captain in need of close companionship? Are you a landlubber who craves the crustiness of a grizzled old sailor? Well, there’s a website devoted to your needs. A dating website […]