BBC: “A group of nuns are on the run near the northern Italian city of Bergamo after a case of far from angelic driving.”
I’ll be keeping a lookout for those crazy nuns when I’m in Bergamo on Monday.
Monthly Archives: April 2003
BBC: “Thousands of valuable historical items from Baghdad’s main museum have been taken or destroyed by looters.”
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“A museum guard said that since Thursday, hundreds of looters had carried away artefacts on carts and wheelbarrows.
The museum’s deputy director said looters had taken or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years.”
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“Treasures at the museum date back 5,000 years to the dawn of civilisation in Mesopotamia, as Iraq was once known.”
Age: “An aspiring rap star who has been charged with murdering his roommate and eating part of her lung did so as part of his record label’s plan to cultivate a “gangsta” image for him, the victim’s mother charged in a a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.”
How not surprised am I at the real story behind those ‘toppling Saddam’ images?
Saddam Hussein’s son comes home from shopping with everything in a cardboard box…
His dad says: “Why have you brought the shopping home in a cardboard box, son?”
To which his son replies:
“Because there’s no Baghdad”
(Thanks Mez!)
I might give http://www.bookcrossing.com/ a go.
Interesting-ish Age article about In the hype cycle, failure always precedes success
“One of the most useful ideas to come out of the analyst community in the past few years has been Gartner’s “hype cycle”. This handy tool explains the common phenomenon in the IT industry of new technologies and products being overhyped when they are launched, only to disappoint everybody before finally maturing and being widely adopted.”
According to this, “Releases of most EMI artists will be copy controlled, and will need to meet the requirements as set out on the back of the case.”.
So I’ll be avoiding EMI releases in future. My requirement is to listen to music, not keep their lawyers happy.