As a dedicated fan of the humble egg, imagine the shock and disappointment I experienced on learning that the Egg Information Service has had its plans to show re-runs of its 1950s TV commercials scuppered by the Broadcast Advertising Clearance Centre.

The BACC argues that the advice imparted within the adverts to “go to work on an egg” is at odds with today’s clamourings for a varied diet.

Of course, we all intuitively know that this is a load of stuff and nonsense. As the Food Standard Agency has recently admitted “there are no restrictions on the number of eggs people can eat” (although I have to admit, even as a strong egg advocate, I am forced to concede that the human body may eventually self-impose some such restriction).

As for me, I’ve been enjoying a diet rich in eggs for some considerable time now, and I’m delighted to report an insignificant number of side-effects.

So people, I emplore you: make up your own minds as to what constitutes a safe level of egg use and enjoy the gift of the hen fruit to the fullest!

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The city centre of Birmingham has undergone a relentless process of regeneration and gentrification in recent years. Its much-maligned concrete heart has been ripped out, replaced with shiny new buildings and pedestrian-friendly areas. However, if you’re brave enough to venture down Digbeth High Street you’ll soon discover what this once great industrial city is really about.

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A website has recently launched that allows surfers to search Yahoo and Google simultaneously, providing side by side results for instant comparison.

The website, searchboth.com, has been developed by IdeaLabz.com who claim it to be a first. In view of the erstwhile existence of meta search engines such as dogpile.com, we presume it is referring to its somewhat innovative display view rather than the simultaneous querying of multiple search engines.
To be honest though, I can’t see it catching on…

Yesterday Apple announced the release of the Safari 3 beta for both Mac and PC. Rumoured to be faster than Linford Christie after a nandrolone binge, how does it fare?

As with the PC iTunes installation, Apple forces you to install Quicktime as part of the installation process which is a mild irritation - having disabled Quicktime’s tasktray process from a previous installation, I now have it running again. I suppose you have to chuckle at Apple’s little jokes.

Once installed it looks… a little out of place. With OSX scrollbars and form elements, it feels a little like a deviant, cross-dressing browser; a PC application in Mac getup. Like its Mac counterpart, it lacks a homepage button which is alarming, irritating and surprising in equal measure. I’m struggling to think of a single reason for its omission.

My PC browser of choice is, like many people, Firefox. It’s not perfect, but its many little add-ons and shortcuts make it a cut above the rest. In highly unscientific tests of uncached page loading speeds however, Safari 3 doesn’t seem to be the speed demon it claims to be. It actually seems slower than Firefox, a fact that is emphasised by Safari’s preference for loading the entire page before displaying anything at all. I’ll be trying out the Mac implementation soon to see whether its blistering pace is evident on OSX.

One very welcome feature of the new Safari browser, however, is the beautifully anti-aliased HTML text. Why PC users have been made to suffer without this feature for so long (save for IE7’s poor ClearType implementation) is a question even the wisest of wise men would struggle to answer.

So overall, it’s nothing to write home about. A browser like any other (minus the home button), with nice looking text but out of place looking form elements. I’ll stick with Firefox I think.