I’ve been listening to the Ricky Gervais / Guardian Unlimited podcast, and I have to say he’s a comic genius. Much like The Office, I can’t say what it is that’s so funny - he just is.
Archive for the 'news' Category
The BBC believes its Persian news website has been blocked by the Iranian government, after a sharp fall in hits over the last three days.
An oil depot has exploded in Hemel Hempstead. The BBC have a live video feed. Reports say the explosion could be heard as far away as Holland and Northern France.
Update: Check out this photo on flickr.
A YOUNG British man thought to be the first person to have shaken off HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is to undergo further clinical tests in the hope of a breakthrough in treating the condition.
Andrew Stimpson, 25, said yesterday that he was willing to do all he could to help to tackle the condition, after it emerged that his body had apparently rid itself of the human immunodeficiency virus.
Mr Stimpson, a Scot living in London, was found to be HIV-positive in August 2002, but 14 months later a blood test suggested that he no longer carried the virus. A further three tests confirmed the finding.
Doctors believe that this first confirmed case of �spontaneous clearance??? of HIV could offer important insights into the behaviour of the virus, and possible means of defeating it.
Much more wary of todays’ front page than Blairs’ foreign policy.
Lions at a drive-through safari park in Merseyside are chasing small cars, thinking they are prey. According to the BBC, Smart cars and Minis are particularly easily mistaken by the pride.
To celebrate the birth of a baby anteater, London Zoo are offering free entrance to visitors with big noses over the weekend of 13-14th August. The zoo is, in my opinion, the best day out in London bar none.
Allegedly taken at Notting Hill Gate tube station
Today’s Formula 1 Grand Prix at Indianapolis was a farce for both the teams and the spectators. Formula One seems to have grown into the spoilt brat of the industry - spending millions of pounds on a hugely public series of events, only to completely ignore the fans when they need to sort out an issue; and I’m looking at the FIA here, not the teams or even the suppliers. As David Coulthard put it
the reality is mature adults couldn’t find a solution that would let us go racing
The initial situation is down to Michelin, who seemingly did not do their research beforehand. After they realised the problem, the FIA could have either let the affected teams use different tyres - thus breaking 5 rules, which were written to apply to individual teams, or they could have put in a chicane - as requested by both Michelin and 10 of the teams.
Two more quotes, the first from Martin Brundle (reporting for ITV)
if Schumacher does a victory dance on the podium, i’m personally going to go up there and punch him
and Jim Rosenthal
Coronation Street is on next - that’s a soap opera that is worth watching!
Having witnessed first hand the suffering of families whose loved ones have been seriously injured or tragically killed, I would strongly urge all motorists not to speed
This was the comment made by Chief Superintendent Les Owen, head of the Metropolitan Police Traffic Division, following the installation of five new speed cameras in East London in February 2003.
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