I don't know much about art, but I know what smells…

This is possibly the only one of these “wacky art exhibits” that I actually find interesting. I always enjoy things that make people squirm, but this also has great appeal on a technical level. I'm not even sure that anyone has recreated the human digestive system to this level before.

Is this apprecation part of the artwork, or simply the way that a geek interprets it? Either way, I don't think I'll be getting one of these for my house.

For those that have been hiding under a rock (as I have), Google now has a SOAP API for its search and spelling engines. During the beta period, anyone can apply for a key to get 1000 free uses of the API per day. Despite the fact that I hate SOAP, expect something useless here to prove how wonderful Google really is.

I assume that the free access is only temporary, so it will be interesting to see what sort of charging schedule they decide to implement. Without the facility to display adverts and poetry, how else can they ensure they remain profitable? Simply charging for access to the API hooks might not be the best way to encourage people to use them.

I guess only time will tell.

Thanks to the cartoon, the trading cards and far too many Nintendo games, modern children can identify Pokemon more easily than local animals. Ants and beetles are hard to identify, pikachu and wigglytuff are not.

If only Pokemon were real animals, our children would have learned something. Three-Toed Sloth, I choose you!

I can't remember if the last piece of research said that coffee was good or bad, but it's definitely back on the good list again. While it sounds rather strange, this time they're telling us that coffee helps prevent tooth decay. It's not the caffeine, but the chlorogenic acid, nicotinic acid and trigonelline (don't they sound appetising?) that stop Streptococcus mutans from sticking to teeth. So even decaf drinkers should have sparkly choppers.

Okay, so perhaps the tests we're performed on actual teeth. They used “a synthetic tooth surface”. Oh, and they didn't use coffee. They only applied the chlorogenic acid, nicotinic acid and trigonelline.

I don't think I'll stop brushing my teeth just yet, but maybe I'll go have another espresso.

See? We don't even have to try. The Xbox is already failing.

It's okay Bill, I'm sure they'll make nice paper-weights.

I'm not really a fan of the royal family, but the Queen Mother sounded like a fun person. We need less upperclass, stuffiness and more silliness and wacky Ali G impersonations. Not that I'm a fan of Ali G, either; just a fan of silliness and spontaneity.

Perhaps if the royal family was like this in public, we'd actually realise that they're just people. People with far too much money and too much starch in their pants, but still just people.