Nice: Two new E-Cars for the UK

Finally two all-electric car that do not look like a gunnysack or costs an arm and a leg.

The first - the Nice MyCar - designed by Italian design house Giugiaro and build in HongKong will be available in the UK from this fall…

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Music: The Whip - Blackout

A few days before their tour through the UK is over and they are moving on throughout Europe and the USA, Manchester electronic pop group “The Whip” has released a video for their next single called “Blackout”…

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Credit Crunch - Graffiti Street Art by Syd TV

The topic of the credit crisis and the issues for people are becoming more and more popular in the UK. This video shows Syd.TV creating a graffiti on this topic together with clips of prominent participants and news reporting…

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Humor: Job Web site(s) or when nonsense strikes

From time to time we are browsing various job web sites around the world to get a better understanding how the market situation for IS/IT is actually developing. And there is one site we normally leave out completely from top-level / senior post scans, but yesterday night we made an exception and that’s what we’ve got:

The scenario:

Lets look for a senior to top level IT/IS position…

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UK: How to waste the tax payer’s money

In times when governments - particularly in Europe - leave an ever growing number of their citizens after taxes and social security just with enough of their income to barely survive, more and more rumors and stories stories surface how bluntly this money is then blown by the administrators.

One might get the impression that the control mechanisms that once worked so-so…

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UK: Government planning to become Peeping Tom

According to UK daily newspaper “The Sun” the UK Home office is currently planning to put x-ray like devices that could snap “naked” pictures of passers-by into lampposts or otherwise cover public space. While the idea here - as usual - is to trap terror suspects and identify people carrying weapons or explosives, it is unclear how controls or accountability for the use of such systems can be implemented. Officials claim one solution would be to allow only women to monitor female subjects. How this can be done on a public square sounds rather optimistic to us. People living in the UK are today already on average captured 300 times per day by more than 4 million surveillance cameras…

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UK: Horse Rustling is coming back

According to UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph horse rustling is becoming big business in Britain (again)…These horses have gained substantially in popularity - both in Europe and America - and a traditional colored cob can now cost up to USD 120,000 in America. This promises huge profits with only USD 6,500 cost to transport it across the Atlantic…

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What does British Media think about US Middle Eastern politics

While these days its getting more dimmed-down in British media about their own country when it comes to foreign and in particular US politics they still call a spade a spade. So we wanted to point you to one story that seemingly did not get much attention outside of the UK but it includes a [...]

UK: Road signs hacked

On Thursday last week thousands of commuters driving to work in Crawley, West Sussex got a special greeting in the morning.
Digital roadside signs that usually inform about parking availability, instead told visitors to “F*** off”. The message appeared on all similar signs around Crawley at about 6.45am and the Council declared that hackers gained [...]

Monty Python’s All Time Classics

How to better start this blog then with a reference to some of the all-time classics from Monty Python’s. Thanks to the web you can do the time warp and watch some of their best sketches and songs on your computer. For those of you who don’t know the group Wikipedia has some background [...]