Blogging gives you cancer

January 12th, 2009 by Dave Leave a reply »

Not really. Don’t panic.

Here’s a great new blog following cancer stories in the Daily Mail:

“A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer. This blog will be logging the Daily Mail’s progress through 2008 using the tools of pedantry, swearing and Venn diagrams.”

I LOVE it. In the latest entry, energy-saving lightbulbs are getting a kicking:

Oh wait, energy saving lightbulbs will give you skin cancer (and migraines, and eczema, and dizziness).

If they continue at this rate they will classify 936 objects into cancer causing or cancer curing in 2008. That’s not counting the Mail on Sunday.

Christ on a bike.

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3 comments

  1. Rosie Niven says:

    There was a Daily Mail game going around on email a year or two ago. It basically came up with different “Daily Mail headlines” based on different randomly selected combinations. My favourite was “Could Gordon Brown give the Memory of Diana Cancer?”.

    Rosie Niven’s last blog post..World cup plan

  2. Newsvend says:

    Latest news is that blogging with a laptop on your lap can make you infertile (if you’re a man). Something to do with the heat. Scientists are also researching a link between frequent use of a laptop on a lap and testicular cancer.

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