This week-end will be held in London the fourth edition of the "Boring Conference".

Event is sold-out as hundreds of participants have paid tens of pounds to attend lectures on boring topics such as "home ink-jet printers" or "tunes of ice-cream vans". '

As described on its website, The Boring Conference is a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked – subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves to be deeply fascinating.

 Read more on The Boring Conference website or in the very serious The Guardian.