h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4914294.stm

Dr Who beats Harry Potter

Teachers at Wellington College in Berkshire will be coached in positive psychology to tutor well-being

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4915714.stm

...psychologist Nick Baylis wants pupils to focus both positive and "painful" emotions constructively.

Embrace unveil England World Cup anthem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4927990.stm

(You can listen to an audio clip of the song there)


I will be very surprised if I hear a single person singing that down the pub or on the terraces.

Here is another of those possible history making events, alien life rains from space:

www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/03/1427866.htm

What doesn't seem mentioned here is apparently the physicist in question says he has seen the little red thingies multiplying at a temperature of about 300 celcius.

canadian press banned from depicting flag draped coffins

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4945764.stm

*shakes head in bemusement.*

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/whalethanks.asp

Whale thanks her rescuers.

Traveller in Time on his bicycle
"< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4944834.stm >

If you manage to get caught by a camera driving too fast, you will probably (get) hit too. "

Sheer class:

http://www.i4u.com/article5522.html

"The LED Palm Trees are available in 10', 16.4' and 25' height. Higher trees are available on request. Available colors include red, green, orange, blue, and yellow. "

Can't find a link, sadly, but today's Metro front-page story is about "Bribes to take nuclear waste". Now, I'm not going to bang on about the pros and cons of various forms of nuclear waste disposal, but one sentence caught my eye: "...Britain's estimated 470,000 cubic metres of spent nuclear material - enough to fill five Royal Albert Halls..."

Yes! we have a new measure - just as the measure of rain forest destroyed per annum is measured in areas the size of Wales, nuclear waste is measured in Albert Halls!

RF

This story goes back to 22/04/06 but has just been brought to my attention.

So sad ....

Executed for the crime of entertaining the children

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2145492,00.html

It was sent to me by an actor who ended his email with this quote ...

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, BEGIN IT. Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it."

Goethe

This is terrible, Feisor!

Here's a little something to make you smile ....

You may have been following the story of the 2 miners trapped for over a week in Tasmania (a kilometre underground)

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tunnel-to-save-miners-underway/2006/05/03/1146335761240.html

They are communicating with them now, feeding them etc and working to get them out.

The best story I have heard is that apparently they asked the guys what they wanted sent down to them - one of them replied ....

"I'd love a meat pie and can you send down a newspaper - I want to look for another job."



I love the Aussie sense of humour ....

Unreal!

http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/mathtest.asp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4760879.stm

"The UK High Court has ruled that families exiled from the Chagos Islands by the British government decades ago have the right to return."
And good luck to them in their continued fight!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4762783.stm

"The BBC has appealed to staff to make up the numbers in studio audiences after it found it was breaking the law by hosting shows at Television Centre."

Did any of italics go? Or did the profanity filter sotp them due to the possibility of offencesive lewd lyrics and behaviour?

The two pence coin is now worth 3p plus!
Makes you wonder don't it

How did that happen, rise in metal prices?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4767717.stm

Brazilian "Stonehenge" found..

The Grolar? The Prizzly?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4766217.stm
the offspring of a male grizzly bear and a female polar bear...unfortunately dead now.