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

Harvard Alumni Association offers apology for publication of 'awards' given to Unabomber.

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/05/24/harvard-alumni-association-apologizes-for-listing-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-awards-his-life-sentences-for-terror-campaign/qJekNsHOeMZHgL6S7JxtkI/story.html

Oliver Wyman is one of the companies which will elaborate a report on Spanish banks.

That company is the one which said that the Anglo Irish Bank was the best in the world. Two years later collapsed.

They also adviced other banks to buy toxic assets.

More:

Before Bankia entered the stock market, Rato took advice from Deustchebank and PG Morgan.

Saw some footage of the Bankia building on telly last night.
It looks like a square glass leaning=tower-of-Pisa, hanging
way out over the streetscape. What were they thinking.
Some visual pun on the word 'balance' perhaps?

~jwf~

Perhaps you are unaware of the whole picture:
http://www.fundacionjuandeavalos.com/img/biografia/nuevas3/Fuente-de-europa-1997.jpg

My sister-in-law and her husband work there. It's true that they are both left-leaning... but that's another storey.

~jwf~

If anybody wants to see what may well have been the best catch in baseball history, I don't have link right now but you can probably find it with ease on Yahoo (where I saw the article yesterday). It was in a college game (in Washington state) and involved going at a full stretch over a (short) 4-foot fence (to end a game rather than have it become tied).

Zombie Apocalypse - and so it begins

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/26/miami-police-confrontation-men-leaves-1-dead-1-hurt/#.T8KfEroplRo.facebook

Oh my goodness, I saw that baseball catch, it was on ESPN's top ten plays, so if anybody wanted to see it you could probably find it on their website.

I guess this must be The Catch: http://tinyurl.com/crpw3f4

Nice one! Mind you, cricketers take some fine catches too, and they don't wear sissy mittens.

I might do this with my wife's pussy

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16240998

~jwf~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

anyone surprised?

i was over there reading the comments...
people are pretty worked up about it!!

the following link works in logged-in-brunel:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=thames+jubilee+pageant&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1033&bih=639&tbm=isch&tbnid=QJ7IcqSk9bTY_M:&imgrefurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/14/diamond-jubilee-pageant-helen-mirren_n_1513894.html&docid=CH3HHAnR2QkeuM&imgurl=http://p.twimg.com/AtnGFXSCAAA7RSz.jpg&w=500&h=500&ei=8k7NT-DcH8Pi2gXj2qCqAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=565&vpy=303&dur=73&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=121&ty=118&sig=105015839011690584023&page=4&tbnh=143&tbnw=166&start=47&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:47,i:233

just something i found

Surprised? Moi?
Not really but the acronym CPUK took me aback.


"Oh the kids in Bristol
are sharp as a pistol
when they do the Bristol stomp."


I bet they left things all ship-shape and Bristol fashion.

Free combat boots! yay!


~jwf~

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-18322606

"Vote due on link between village of Dull and US town of Boring"

ah thats brightened my day