Fans of satirical/anti-sleaze/media-commentary magazine Private Eye may be interested in this site… Ugandan Discussions features cover scans of every issue of the Eye since 1961. Yes, even the really notorious one that WHSmiths refused to sell. [via BoingBoing]
Elsewhere, a shiny black spherical robot, originally developed by Swedish scientists for use on Mars, is now being mooted as a future anti-burglar device. If you’ve ever seen cult TV series The Prisoner, you’ll see how they’ve missed a trick with the design. Paint it white, make it bouncy… it’d scare the shit out of baby boomer burglars.