The Best Party, only established six months ago by comedian Jon Gnarr, has won local elections in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik. The Best Party secured 34.7% of the vote, with the Independence Party’s polling 33.6%. Election pledges by the party include the suitably vague ‘sustainable transparency’ along with the more tangible free towels at all swimming pools and a new polar …
Pebble art
Sculptor Peter Codling has spent sixteen years making clay stones in a kiln at his home, numbering them and then inviting people to decorate them before throwing them into the waves off Southsea beach, Portsmouth. His objective was to hurl one million pebbles into the sea and create an artistic ‘handmade monument to the people by the people for the …
A cutter above the rest
Pendine Sands in Wales was the scene of a new world record, rider Don Wales achieving a speed of 86.069 mph on a lawnmower.
Rolling Stones hit number one
The Rolling Stones have achieved their first number one UK album in 16 years with a re-released version of Exile on Main Street.
Strange lawsuit
A Canadian woman, Gabriella Nagy, is suing a mobile phone company for 600,000 Canadian dollars for invasion of privacy and breach of contract and blames the company for the breakup of her marriage. Her husband apparently became suspicious after noticing a frequently called phone number on the itemised bill. Dialling the number, he was told by the man on the …
Revamping Hotmail
Microsoft is planning a makeover for its free Hotmail email service, although we hope it doesn’t end up looking like the Bogdanoffs. The ‘new’ Hotmail is due to go ‘live’ in July or August and aims to keep up with, in many ways, Yahoo and Gmail…Microsoft gives Hotmail a makeover…
Is it really worth it?
Despite the distinct possibility that people will turn out just like these three, they continue to do such things….UFO’s… It is not as if these are just isolated cases, they’re happening all the time.
Paying to be insecure
A tribunal in the UK has ruled that suspected al-Qaeda terrorists Abid Naseer and Ahmad Faraz Khan, who allegedly plotted to bomb a packed shopping centre and continue to pose a threat to national security, cannot be deported to Pakistan because it would breach their human rights.
Sticks at the ready
In the UK, Morris dancing dates back to the latter part of the fifteenth century.
Truth or fiction?
This one sounds quite improbable, more like an urban legend, but it is being touted as having been reported in the London Times.