More bogus science words used to flog beauty products

From a L'Oreal advert for a wrinkle-firming product: "now with Pro-retinol A and fibro-plastyl".

Or as Cathy summed it up: "Polyfilla for your face!"

I really hate the way people use sciencey-sounding words to market stuff. I did love Newsbiscuit's reportage about L'Oreal's Nobel Prize win though!

Wowsers!

My joke about male turkeys suffering more from bird flu is on the 'more soon' tag line on Newsbiscuit. Woohoo.

(Wait for the rolling headlines to move round to it!)

And in eschatalogical news...

Newsbiscuit is certainly a strong contender to be my favourite website, and if you haven't visited it yet, then perhaps this post about how Coke are sponsoring the Second Coming of Christ will convert you.

As someone who writes press releases on a regular basis, I think the quotes from the company spokesperson are particularly inspired.

Satire

This very clever post from Newsbiscuit (the doyenne of reportage that should be true...) made me laugh:

"A young man has abandoned his weblog after coming to the conclusion that no one was interested in the every day details of his life.

‘I was really excited when I started my blog’ says computer repair specialist Aaron Bagshot. ‘I felt really amazing to think that I was sharing my life and thoughts with millions of people. That all around the world people were reading the everyday details of my life. Except that they weren’t.’"
Read the rest

For those who haven't discovered the genius that is Newsbiscuit, here's five classics you ought to read...

Paperclip from Word quits Microsoft for Apple
Trident’s replacement to be provided by Ryan Air
Wasp flu reaches Britain
Tinky Winky dies following drink-induced coma
EU rule that Germany must have shorter nouns