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

Oh please, please, please

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/6234992.stm

"Celtic linked with defender Fanni"

If only Julian Dicks was still around.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6240288.stm

Australian speeding campaign.

You really need to see the picture of the woman making the gsture

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1182851231/html/1.stm

New game: flipperball.

you mean waterpolo!

Caring chimps

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/26/helping-chimps.html

"The roots of human altruism may go deeper than previously thought, reaching as far back as the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees."

Tropical giant penguin discovered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6239846.stm

toddles off....

"An island off the coast of Higashihiroshima is crumbling away due to countless crustaceans that have made holes in its rocks and caused its highest peak to completely disappear."

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070626p2a00m0na015000c.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6239334.stm

Tunguska crater found?

not sure if this has been posted:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/27/steam_car_record_attempt/
which points to
http://www.steamcar.co.uk/

which is what it says. OK, so it has been ongoing for a while but I only just picked up on it

Perhaps the funniest story I've seen in weeks:

Abu Hamza unhappy with gay nurse

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/view.php?id=4734

"The Mirror reports that the hate preacher has discovered that his regular nurse for the last two years is a gay man.

Lawyers for Hamza have written to the Prison Service demanding a replacement, claiming his religious human rights are being breached by being assisted by a homosexual.

His nurse is open about being gay. He even speaks with a camp voice. His nickname is Queenie."

Someone must have been holding another wheel

http://news.com.com/Google+We+all+have+to+invent+the+wheel/2009-1002_3-6189397.html

Labour leader Gordon Brown is the UK's new prime minister after being asked to form a government by the Queen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6245682.stm

This kept me awake last night. I was wondering how formal things are when Queenie asks someone to form a new government. Is it a case of: "Okay, you know the score by now, Gordon. Go do your stuff" or "One would officially ask you to initiate the steps to forming one's new government" with Gordon replying "This is the highest honour your majesty".

I thought his reply was more likely to be "About bloody time! Thought you'd never ask!"

RF

I'm trying to find a link to the story all over the German papers at the moment about a couple of kids who were caught having s*x on the beach. The boy (17 years old) has been imprisoned for sleeping with a minor. The girl was 13. As the girl was British, you'd think there'd be some mention somewhere in the British press. The last I hear was she's saying she hadn't consented, and his story is that she told him she was 15. So no link. Just thought you might like to know.

Oh, sorry - the whole thing happened in Turkey. Which makes it a little more of a piquant story, knowing their attitude to that sort of thing.

Badgers being sent to Iraq!!!!!! Send for 2legs quick!!!!!

http://newsbiscuit.com/article/badgers-to-be-sent-to-iraq-134

zdt

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gordonbrown/story/0,,2113299,00.html

Alan Sugar gets role advising government.

Can't we have him in the cabinet firing one of the politicians each week?

you give me idea

apprentice: the next member of parliament
the searchers are Jefrey Archer like ex-mps from each party....


I am Dutcth so I do not know all the ex-mps.

Brown Sugar!