By John | December 28, 2009
Paignton is on the south coast of England in Devon. Comment from the original poster on YouTube two days ago:
A removal truck had been blocking the road outside our house for 3 hours and the drivers boss had just turned up, when they started the ignition it looked like they were going to try and [...]
By John | December 24, 2009
The headline above is from Charlemagne’s notebook (a blog by an Economist contributor). Similarly Train breaks down: Continent cut off from the Times.
Quite in the spirit of the more well known apocryphal headline “Fog in Channel. Continent isolated” attributed to the London “Times” in the early 20th century. Let’s wish Eurostar a [...]
By John | December 24, 2009
Spiegel Online berichtet: Experten vom Wissenschaftsmuseum Phaeno in Wolfsburg haben überprüft, ob der dicke Mann auf dem Schlitten es überhaupt schaffen kann, Millionen braver Kinder am Heiligen Abend mit Geschenken zu versorgen.
Hier das Ergebnis.
… und sonst? Ein frohes Fest, happy Christmas und feliz Navidad!
By John | December 15, 2009
Watch the video first. Just one viewing, please. Hit pause when the question appears, before you watch the rest. You will be asked how many changes you noticed, so pay attention!
What was your score? Mine was 2, which is pretty unobservant, I think
By John | December 14, 2009
It often seems to us that Britain has changed a lot in the thirty years that we’ve not been living there. In particular, it seems to be the most “Health & Safety” obsessed country in the world. Luckily, the Brits still have a sense of humour, as this blog entry testifies!
(Spotted by Ruth, who loves [...]
By John | December 12, 2009
Wal-Mart gave up trying to compete in Germany in 2006, unable to compete effectively against Aldi and Lidl.
Nonetheless, I was surprised to read in the latest Harvard Business Review (link to a summary of the article), that six German “hard discounters” (their term for discounters like Aldi and Lidl) are in the top [...]
By John | December 8, 2009
Given the effort the music industry puts into chasing file downloaders for lost revenue, you would think that they would be punctilious about setting a good example to their customers. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The Canadian Recording Industry Association is currently being sued for not paying copyright on some 300 000 songs, which [...]
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By John | December 6, 2009
The Copenhagen Climate Summit starts tommorow. One editorial, with a stark message, will appear in 56 newspapers in 45 countries tomorrow:
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to [...]
By John | December 5, 2009
The Apple Store yesterday in Frankfurt’s Fressgass’
If you have ever bought an Apple product, you know their packaging is usually exquisite. Well, the same applies to their stores before they open. The Frankfurt store pictured above opens at the beginning of January, and work is still going on inside. However, the logo is already installed, [...]
