In keeping with Ofsted guidelines, Yorkshire Coast College has amended its school calendar to read ‘End of Term Break’ instead of Christmas and Easter for fear of offending ethnic minorities! Some bright spark has even been referring to ‘Winterval’. Hideous.
New Marillion album available as free download
Marillion are planning to make their new album, ‘Happiness is the Road’, available for free download via P2P file-sharing websites.
Alitalia can’t afford to buy fuel
Alitalia, Italy’s national airline, may have to cancel some flights because of a lack of funds to buy fuel and cannot guarantee flights after Sunday.
Deep Purple in Estepona
Deep Purple, rock legends in their own lunchtime, will be playing at the bullring in Estepona on September 12th.
New iPod Nano unveiled
Apple has unveiled the latest fourth generation version of the iPod Nano which is thinner than ever and available in just about every colour. It was launched at a US press conference by Apple chief Steve Jobs.
Baldies wanted
Air New Zealand is looking for follicly challenged passengers to head up a new advertising campaign in which their pates would be temporarily tattoed with a message publicising a new check-in service. The airline is looking to recruit 50 ‘cranial billboards’ who would each be paid NZ$1,000 (£380 or $666). Nice easy money for bald frequent fliers.
Two for one isn’t bad
The Dutch are still the masters when it comes to reclaiming land, but maybe they will be adding a new string to their bow. The Dutch agriculture minister, Gerda Verburg, has unveiled the world’s largest biomass power plant to run exclusively on chicken sh poultry manure.
Where will it all end?
‘Hello, is that the…’
Speed painting…sort of…
Maybe not entirely original, but well done and fascinating. And umpteen times better than I could manage, at any speed! >>Speed Painting<<
Google amend Chrome EULA
Google has reworded the EULA (End User License Agreement) for its new Chrome browser, saying that the clause claiming rights to anything and everything published via the browser was an ‘oversight’.