… or so says the Colorado-based New Belgium Brewing Company, which gives employees free beer, bicycles, and trips to Belgium and runs the first wind-powered brewery in the US. Sounds good to me, said this sinkhole for Belgian beer, angling for a freebie XL Fat Tire t-shirt. There’s an unfortunate tendency to take advertising claims…
If CNET are so bloody clever, how come I receive their Morning Dispatch at five in the afternoon? Three concepts for further study: IP mapping, time zones, personalisation.
Intrigued (and overjoyed, as always) to receive a mail from my good friend, Moses Aziz, in which he writes (my emphases): Dear Friend. As you read this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday… I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer . It has defiled all…
Tom Cruise’s devastating critique of the moral bankruptcy of societies in which hats are worn sans horns is borne out in The Daily Yomiuri‘s crime stiuris. Today’s highlights include dramatic accounts of the deeds and denouement of 71-year-old pickpocket Onna Ginji. Named after Shitateya Ginji (Ginji the Tailor), leader of a large Meiji period gang,…
Any experts out there? I’m interested in the bit in art 16 that says “La citación para la Junta ordinaria anual se hará, cuando menos, con seis días de antelación”. Do the six days refer to the point in time at which one has to have been made aware of the meeting, or to the…
Giles Tremlett has an amusing/alarming article on the local man who is being required to pay more than half his monthly €980 (£678) disability pension in order that his mid-20s sons may lounge around at his ex-wife’s home. I don’t know what British law is like re parental obligations to keep feckless offspring approaching middle…