Fed2 Star Index
In this week’s Fed2 Star: another newsdroid holiday, the WayBack Machine shows the history Fed’s website, farmers’ electronics, claims for chocolate’s health properties smashed, extreme exercise causes heart problems, criminal blames computer game for armed robbery, spurious correlations, the work of H R Giger and a suit that shows you what it’s like to get old. Plus Alan’s technical column Winding Down.
Official News
Sunshine break for the newsdroids
Peering way back into Fed's past
Real life news: plough sensors into your field
Terrible real life news: chocolate not so good for you after all
Real life news: see, I told you exercise was bad for you!
Dumb criminal of the week: it wasn't my fault, blame Grand Theft Auto
On the web: spurious corrleations
Artist of the week: H R Giger (RIP)