Daftness from TheLocal as we find that people are doing what people always do with office furniture – except now with stopwatches. The newspaper even files it under their “Sports” section which seems unnecessarily like taking the piss. Luxembourger Pierre Feller beat out the homegrown talent to win the downhill […]
Question Time tonight comes from that famous bastion of middle-of-the-road politics…Liverpool. On the panel tonight we have Baron and part time vampire Michael Howard, adulterer, windmill fanatic and expenses fiddler* Chris Huhne, Pantone #1235 (Saffron) coloured bank robber Peter Hain, Alex Wee Eck Salmond and former New Statesman deputy editor Cristina Odone. […]
For non-Spanish speakers, ¿qué pasa? is roughly “how’s it going?” or “what’s up?”. Which about sums up where this post is headed. Always-interesting commenter ‘thespecialone‘ left a reply on the previous thread about visits to the Rock in years gone past which got TheEye a’thinkin’. There are thousands of photographs of everywhere that […]
Considering the depleted state of the Armed Forces these days, Gibraltar is currently the busiest we’ve been for ages hosting Royal Navy ships. In fact this year has seen more naval activity so far than in the whole of 2010. The US nuclear submarine Florida (pictured right against the South […]
And who says exams are getting easier, eh? The New York Times has just published a pdf of the Harvard Entrance Exam for 1869 Now TheEye must confess to a bit of an advantage with the Mathematics questions, and most of the History and Geography question look achievable; but Latin, Greek, […]
Soooo, okay then. This is an interesting idea reported by the BBC on Friday. The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children’s show Sesame Street.In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID – the development arm of the US government – is […]
Bernadette M_____ v. Northern Trust, National Association, et al., No. CGC 11-510013 (San Francisco Super. Ct. filed Apr. 7, 2011). Employment complaint for sex, age and race discrimination. The plaintiff, an Irish citizen, suffered through a Mr. Potato Head contest organized by defendant Cameron in which potatoes were decorated to […]
And so we have the scary news that the head of Interpol has called for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on “citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management“. Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said: “At a time when global […]
….and that’s bound to be just the tip of his own personal thieving iceberg. Unfortunately the criminal justice system doesn’t contain judicial powers to force-feed someone their own scrotum. Which is a shame, really.
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