Website called funnyexam.com offers a hilarious pinboard for staff to expose the silliest answers they've ever seen

A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel: Volume Two and Cooking with Poo are on a shortlist for the prize of the oddest book title of the year.

Apple battles to avoid iPad ban in China

The latest stage of Apple’s battle to use the “iPad” trademark in China saw heated exchanges in a Shanghai court, as the technology giant fought to avoid disruption to global supplies of its best-selling tablet.

t is under attack from Shenzhen Proview Technology, a Chinese company, which registered the iPad trademark in 2001. Apple bought rights to the name fro £35,000 from a Taiwanese company affiliated with Proview but the mainland…

Am thinking of going to HK for a weekend - tips/hints on hotels/ restaurants what to do etc warmly welcomed

Just some holy people I have come across recently:

Dennis the Abbott

Mahatma Jack

Steve "the seer" Mellow

The Dalai Richard (or as some people say: "The Dalai Dick"

Are there any other holy people out there?

An angry crowd shouted and threw eggs at Apple's Beijing flagship store after it failed to open on schedule on Friday to sell the popular new iPhone 4S model.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9011987/Angry-mob-pelts-eggs-at-Apple-store-in-China-over-iPhone-4S-release.html…

When I get home later this month my first breakfast will include:

2 rashers unsmoked danish back  bacon, a good sized pork sausage, 2 fried eggs (easy over), button mushrooms, a half grilled tomato, 2 pieces of fried black pudding and fried bread. All washed down with a good mug of tea (with milk and sugar) - also English mustard for the sausage.

All followed with hot butterd toast and marmalade

here are some replies from the guardian on this most…

The Changchun 2012 Ice and Snow Festival was grandly opened at Jingyuetan National Forest Park on Monday morning of January 2, 2012.

This year marks the 15th session of the Ice and Snow Festival, and the 10th anniversary for the settlement of Vasaloppet in Changchun. 

The theme of the festival is “Passionate Vasaloppet, Attractive Changchun”. In line with “tour around Changchun, have fun on weekends” and “watch the Winter Games, travel around Jilin Province…

 The 28th International Harbin Ice and Snow Festival held in Harbin, in China's northern Heilongjiang province. The annual three-month long festival will have its opening ceremony on 5 January 2012

Well worth a visit if you have never been - Go to the ice festival in the evening and the snow festival the following morning - and then find a good Russian restaurant to warm up!

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THE Trappist Abbey of St Sixtus of Westvleteren has little to offer those wishing to gawp at ecclesiastical architecture. The 19th-century buildings—squat, brick and functional—sit on a quiet country lane amid flat farmland, close to Belgium’s border with France. Yet the vast visitors’ car park is a clue that some people nevertheless consider the abbey worth a trip. For beer lovers, St Sixtus is a place of pilgrimage.

The abbey and its most famous brew, Westvleteren 12—a dark, strong…

The iconic Cafe de Paris in Rome – the inspiration behind Federico Fellini's classic La Dolce Vita – is set to reopen after it was discovered two years it had been used as a front for money-laundering by the notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia of Calabria.

It was a legendary emblem of the "Dolce Vita" high life of Rome in the 1960s, enticing stars such as Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra.…

Václav Havel, the dissident playwright who led the Czechoslovakian "velvet revolution" and was one of the fathers of the east European pro-democracy movement that led to the fall of the Berlin wall, has died aged 75.

To read more....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/18/vaclav-havel-dies

'''''and he was a writer! ... a man of dignity

Maharishi Jack is here in Changchun!

His many followers from around the world are bewitched by his down to earth stories, pithy humour which always contain the essence of a deeper more meaningful truth. Currently, only a few of his closest followers know of his existence here in Changchun but he will be revealing an important message for the sake of humanity soon.

Full details will be available when appropriate on Changchun Live - this is  just to let everyone…

Why don't they use dynamite? Labourers use excavators on top of a residential building being demolished in Yuhuan County of Taizhou City, Zhejiang province



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071438/How-did-Excavators-dismantle-Chinese-highrise-down.html#ixzz1gOOS4p9U…

There is a management and philosophical concept that these three things are part of our make-up

One view - that I agree with is that we are good in two areas but tend to be weak in the third.

Now - this is difficult but I would guess that I am a Head and Heart guy - but not so good on the Guts

Head - good at thinking, rationalising. reasoning etc

Heart - good at feeling, empathy, understanding

Guts - good at doing, making things happen, being…