Bears are quite smart when it comes to getting their paws on food, although this one ended up going for a short ride. Bear ‘took car for joyride’. A bit of creative headline writing, however, as one would doubt the bear had any intention of setting the vehicle in motion and is unlikely to have derived any joy from the …
Alternative interpretation
It would be interesting to see which, obviously adapted, dictionary the former Labour government used for reference purposes when it came to defining such things as discrimination, sleaze or more complex words such as truth. Work experience at the Foreign Office? Not if you’re a middle class white male. Whatever happened to the best person for the job? The Foreign …
The alternative to having a life
From an old phone to a Porsche in 14 steps or How A 17-Year-Old Craigslist-Swapped An Old Phone For A Porsche. It did, however, take him two years but even still, not bad going. OK, so getting a job might have meant he could have actually bought one sooner, but it wouldn’t have been as much fun.
China oil spill
Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, the flames burning for over 15 hours and destroying several structures. In addition, the damaged pipes released as much as 400,000 gallons of oil into the nearby harbour and the Yellow Sea This photo report shows the extent of the damage and the oil spill.
Carry on leaking
After several months out of service and with much speculation about its future, Wikileaks is is back in business for leakers, with two improved ways to submit secret documents. Other new features include increased support for P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing and ways to locate leaks by geographic region or subject. The site has also published the unique identifier of its …
Speculator with a sweet tooth?
A mystery buyer has bought 241,000 tons of cocoa beans in what appears to be an attempt to corner the market and, presumably, manipulate the price for their own ends. Normally, such actions involve ‘options’ or ‘futures’, giving a trader the right to buy these commodities at a certain price at a certain time in the future. What made yesterday’s …
Let there be…darkness
There must be any number of better and more effective ways of reducing light pollution and certainly thousands of far safer ways for the bloated councils to save money. Motorway lights are switched off at midnight… to cut pollution The Highways Agency, the managers of England’s motorway network, says it has picked areas with low levels of overnight traffic and …
Thomas Crapper would turn in his grave
As long as there remains a choice and doesn’t become the only option, although it is going back to the dark ages in many respects. Shopping centre bosses approve ‘Asian squat toilets’ following cultural awareness course And, of course, anyone who has had the misfortune to come across one of these contraptions, such as in parts of rural France, will …
Things ain’t what they used to be
Although everyone is encouraged to eat sufficient quantities of fruit and vegetables to maintain health, the actual nutritional value of fruits and veggies is dwindling. This decline was first reported ten years ago and is a result of the desire to grow bigger produce at a faster rate, this produce not having enough time to absorb sufficient nutrients from the …
Maybe he watched a different match
In a bizarre, presumably senior, moment, Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk has accused the referee Howard Webb of favouring Spain and ‘robbing’ Holland of victory. If anything, it was the other way round and if Mr Webb had stuck to the letter of the law rather than trying to let the game flow a bit, Holland would have started the second …