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The Edinburgh Festival throws up some curious spectacles from busking opera singers in corsets to clowns doing monologues in the Radisson Hotel. The most strange thing yet, however, was the Cybraphon – a musical instrument whose tune changes depending on feedback given on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and the like.
The instrument itself [...]

The 2009 Edinburgh Raft Race took place on Saturday 27th June at 11am. On a warm but rainy morning, four teams took to the waters of the Union Canal at Edinburgh Quays with only milk cartons, oil drums and ballons to keep them afloat. To the tunes of the eighties blasting out over the tannoy, [...]

Grey squirrels are urging landowners to eradicate Prince Charles to save trees from being destroyed.
“The Prince is doing immense and increasing damage to hardwoods all over the country and threatens to compromise all our efforts to restore native woodlands,” the Squirrels wrote in a letter to the Country Land and Business Association (CLA).
Prince Charles damaged [...]

I feel like I haven’t invented nearly enough new words recently, so today I was particularly pleased when I was watching some on demand TV online that was rudely interrupted by… a buffercopter.
Buffercopter (Buf·er·cop·ter)
Noun

The spinning circular symbol which displays when an online streamed video is loading, or ‘buffering’;
A person, thing or object which prevents a [...]

Underground tours in Edinburgh.
I’d been really looking forward to trying out one of the underground tours but didn’t know what to expect when the wise-cracking tour guide turned up in an old-fashioned dress.  She proceeded to take the mick for the next hour as we trudged 60 feet down into the forgotten streets of Edinburgh’s [...]

You couldn’t make it up!
I hate to say it, but I’m reminded of an Irish joke I once heard (are Irish jokes still Racist, or is it post-modern not to be PC? Who cares?) which goes “How do you sink an Irish Submarine? Knock on the door!”
That joke wasn’t very funny, and neither would it [...]

Check out the sky tonight at midnight. Somewhere in the South near Saturn a little green cloud will be making its way across the night sky. Comet Lulin gives off a green glow and is 38 million miles away. Check it out as it passes through our solar system. You’ll need darkness and binoculars would [...]

Today is “Safer Internet Day 2009″ according to the Internet Watch Foundation. The day is organised by the European Commission and Insafe, the European network of e-safety awareness nodes. It focuses on risks to children online. Anyone who saw Watchdog last night will know that Ebay has changed its policy on the sale of knives [...]

A snowman was spotted drinking coffee in St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh this lunchtime. This picture clearly shows his hard hat, leading some to speculate that the snowman was supposed to be hard at work on the construction of Edinburgh’s new tram line when he was snapped drinking cappuccino in the park: