(Originally sent September 2008)
Films
If I have time, I may watch Pineapple Express, because a collision between a stoner flick and an action adventure movie sounds very silly.
IMDb: 7.8/10
RT: 70%
Last week’s puzzle
Why does shampoo become less effective with use?
I received some answers to this, and it seems there are two main theories.
1) The hair/scalp adapts to the chemicals and starts to resist them
2) Shampoo residue builds up over time
I then put these questions to the yahoo answers community through my secret research alter-ego.
The fact that hair is ‘dead’ would seem to deny theory 1) to me. In The Week I read that the biggest mistake made by people washing their hair is that they don’t rinse it enough, and you should rinse it for about twice as long as you expect. This would seem to endorse 2), but having tried this myself for the past 2 months I found the problem persists.
Mystery status: unsolved
This week’s puzzle
Why are some people photogenic and some not? In other words, why do people look different in photos to real life?
A video:
Cat heaven, including peaceful co-existence with dogs:
Cats on the kings:
A link or 3
There has been much talk about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and whether or not it will end the world. Someone has helpfully created this page:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
View the source code to see how the site works.
However, there is an interesting development – it seems the site does not really work:
http://gist.github.com/9810
Meanwhile everyone can keep an eye on the experiment for themselves from these webcams:
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
A quote
A wonderfully true and melancholic song title from the Future Sound of London:
“Everyone in the world is doing something without me”
A picture
The big challenge when designing shop window advertising is to somehow get people to stop walking by and actually come into your shop and buy something. See a copywriter’s innovative answer to this problem in the image attached. (Photo taken between WWAV and Hammersmith tube)
