Within hours of SF’s Stephan Logan blogging a mention of the 9th Dr Who, Christopher Eccleston, the actor announces he won’t stay with the role for a second series, so all bets are on for the tenth incarnation. Who will…

David Bradley Science Writer lookalike Christopher Eccleston (the new Dr Who to you and me) has apparently suffered his own personal relativity effect in crossing the Atlantic, according to CelebHeights.com., says Indigo Instruments’ Stephan Logan. Eccleston’s agency lists him as 6…

Canada officially went metric over 20 years ago but judging from the mangled measurements and invented significant digits in the daily press, you’d never know it. Apparently, Canadian journalists are trained to read & write but not to count.

The Globe…

Business news just in tells us a new Gehl telescopic handler has a maximum capacity of 5000-7000 lbs (Telescopic Handler ) capacity. Great news we thought, until we saw that this equates to 2268-3175 kg. Also of interest, the power…

Remember the Y2K bug? Wasn’t quite the electronic disaster the media claimed it would be. But, for those who hope to be around in the year 2038, they could witness its evil offspring in that year when the year 2038…

38.6 tons, according to abc, CNN, the Kansas City Star, and Technewsworld, but 35 tonnes, according to PhysOrg.com and the BBC. But, according to onlineconversion.com 35 tonnes are equivalent to 38.5808959 ton [short]. It’s amazing, they actually managed to round…

I understand that every person affected by the superbug MRSA will want to be counted, but how can anyone be soooo precise with the latest UK figures for those afflicted with what is now known as Multiple-Resistant Staph A? Just…

BBC NEWS | Business | One in four ‘touched’ by ID fraud. “Touched” indeed! They may well use quote marks around that word in their headline as the BBC news site then goes on to say, “A quarter of UK…

OilVoice - The web’s number one Oil and Gas resource talks about a liner that “has now been run over an approximately 350 metre (1,148 feet) production interval” while the “The M11Z appraisal well sidetrack is currently at a depth of…

Another Fossett story in the New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online [link now dead] talks about the loss of 2600 pounds of fuel. That’s 1181 kilograms (that one kilo out of the 1181 could have made all the difference.…

Fossett, according to Channelnewsasia.com, was at 46750 feet, that’s 14250 metres, having been aloft for almost 29 hours, and travelling at speeds of around 300 knots, (345 mph, or 555kph). In other words about 50000 feet/15000metres, and around 30 hours…have…