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This table shows how MPs in Greater Manchester voted over the Digital Economy Bill. The only Manchester MP who voted against was Liberal Democrat John Leech, MP for Manchester Withington. Of the 28 MPs across the city region, more than half (17) didn’t actually bother to vote. Of those who voted, all the local Labour [...]

According to several newspapers yesterday, Kellogg’s is planning to use lasers to burn its logo on to individual corn flakes in an attempt to foil impostors. Metro, The Telegraph, The Daily Record and Marketing printed this as fact. Since journalists don’t seem to have realised that the story is made up by some PR people [...]

Why is it that a PC user can get better functionality out of an eight-year-old operating system than a Mac user can get out of a four-year-old operating system?
Say I want to get a new iPod Nano or run Adobe Air (for applications like Twhirl and AlertThingy) on my Mac, I’m going to have to [...]

I observed the other day that Sony Magazine has little to justify its seemingly imaginary cover price of £4.50. However, as Charlie Brooker points out (today, spookily), there are much worse examples of this “hilariously desperate” genre of magazine. Specifically, something called Nespresso magazine.
This is the magazine for people who own Nespresso coffee machines. It [...]

Marks & Spencer is launching a £150 suit that allows you to control your iPod using a controller hidden in the lapel and wires concealed within the lining, reports the Daily Mail. I can’t possibly imagine why anyone would want such a thing, other than to mark themselves out as the biggest prat in the [...]