Jemima Packington was born with the gift of foresight. Unfortunately, that future-vision is only legible by reading the positions of thrown asparagus. That’s right — she’s an asparamancer and she just foretold the births of two royal British heirs and Britain’s imminent trouncing of the rest of the world in the 2012 Olympics. More »
A new book reveals that a member of MI6, the British spy agency, discovered during WWI that semen makes excellent invisible ink and often deployed it in the field. The name of the man who discovered this? Mansfield Cumming.
If you’re staying in a miserable hotel, you’re entitled to post a bad review of it. But as a British couple recently learned, you should probably wait until you’re checked out to write it. Or they’ll check you out forcefully. More »
After being trialled in Moldova (yes, I had to look it up too), UK carrier Orange has launched HD Voice in the UK today, which uses the AMR-WB codec for higher-quality calls and reduction of background noise. More »
Before Nintendo-branded Monopoly sets came out, everyone used to play the same set that’s been around for 75 years now, featuring famous London locations. If you’ve ever wondered where the “Go” is “located”, mapping firm Ordnance Survey has the answer. More »
