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27 Aug

Test your Brain Age

Posted by Phill Watson on Wednesday 27 August 2008 in General posts

See if your brain is as old as your body.

Since the game is in Japanese, read the following English instructions:

1. Touch ’start’
2. Wait for 3, 2, 1.
3. Memorize the number’s position on the screen, then click the circle
from the SMALLEST number to the BIGGEST number.

4. At the end of game, the computer will tell you the age of your brain.

Now, after you’ve struggled with that for a while to get your score somewhere close to your own age, check out these guys..

7 Aug

Goodbye Gunther

Posted by Mark Holland on Thursday 7 August 2008 in Work

Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry is saying its farewells to Body Worlds 4. As a final marketing push, the museum came to Access and asked for a closing message to be emblazoned across the side of an ad van.

With football fever in the air, it seemed only right that Gunther’s plastinated sportsmen should take centre stage.

The van will be driving around the entire Northwest region over the next week 

They think it’s all over… it is on the 17th of August.

6 Aug

Do we need any more TV channels?

Posted by Mark Hope on Wednesday 6 August 2008 in General posts

Skipping around the TV channels the other night I came across “Polish Radio London 24″. I wasn’t specifically looking to ‘watch’ a radio station, as I think it’s an odd thing to do, never mind the extra energy consumption used in running it through the TV (carbon footprint, rising energy costs and all that). Anyway, I gave it at least 10 minutes as I was intrigued by the description - “A compilation of the best rock tunes to come out of Poland in the last twenty years”.

I questioned whether a station could fill 24 hours with famous Polish rock tunes from the last 20 years, but then they probably follow the same formula as many other niche channels, repeating the programming on a rolling basis. (I’m sure the Polish Rock Music +1 channel will follow soon just in case you miss anything). Sadly, the music wasn’t Polish or even rock - just a mix of Euro trash house - so I switched over.

Back in 2005 the BBC asked “Do we need any more digital TV channels?” Personally I think I’m missing “UKTV Food, excluding celebrities pretending to be chefs, or anything with Ainsley Harriot, Anthony Worrell Thompson or Gary Rhodes 24 +1” channel.

What would your TV channel be?