@27 - slightly north of Woodcock, you get Bon Jon View.

Someone had fun writing the names here. Please tell me it's a red light district...

Tits is common slang in the UK, don't worry. I'm sure whoever wrote it knew the pun. It's been on the BBC 'most emailed' list for a while!

Slightly tangential, but does anyone else remember a (UK I think) public information film on knife crime that used a GTA style game world where someone creates hassle and then stabs someone, and then it fades into a real life scene with the suspect suddenly realising they were standing over a dead body?

I've tried googling it but my skills are weak this time.

Um - the headline says human stem cells, but the article says they're from mice.

So, tell me: are you a man, or a mouse? Squeak up!

When I read the equivalent story on the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7384843.stm - I took it a slightly different way; he's not saying that we need more CCTV, he's saying that we need to actually use it effectively - make sure that tapes can be looked at easily, use modern software to their advantage. I actually have no objection to this, or to CCTV in general - it's a public place, you don't do anything there that you're not happy for people to observe. (Yes they can be used by an oppressive police state, but the problem there isn't the CCTV, it's the state - if they're out to get you they won't need CCTV).

Meh. CE? Give me one with a crown any day.

The second image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint_glass shows the crown rather well.

Most places (apart from CAMRA beer festivals) are pint to rim, but if a barman's been stingy[1] you can always ask for a top up, and I've never had a barman object.

I'm looking forward to the Cambridge Beer Festival in a few weeks time - 170 ales, 150 ciders and 60 foreign beers. Shame there's only a week to try them all in.

[1] mean, tight, not-generous - not sure if this is a UK only word

Well, when there's nothing more to say, it's time to go down to the pub.

Mine's an Adnams Explorer please.

#4 - True, it's a frustration I often have at my local station.

But, this can only cope with 3 returns a minute. If you get a train coming in every 10 minutes, each of which has 35 cyclists on, that doesn't work.

Put it another way - if the thing is at capacity, it'll take 52 hours to unload. (And presumably a similar time to load).

#12: I believe that flash photography is specifically banned on the London Underground system, on the grounds that camera flashes could temporarily blind the drivers. Possibly the u-bahn is based on a similar rule?

http://uffish.net/archives/2006/02/london_undergro.html has a little more info, and some links that look interesting.

I've seen the same on safari (latest on os 10.5), with me having rebooted since the previous time I'd logged in.

There is a proxy on my university network, but I don't think I'm using it (I certainly haven't manually configured it to use it).

It seems that to fix it I had to open a new tab, log in and post the message from that new tab; logging in in a different window and then refreshing the old tab didn't work. Well, either that or I've now triple posted to the topic on Mark's gran's 107th Birthday

My Great Grandfather lived to 108, and remembered seeing Queen Victoria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/576726.stm was a story on him around the time of the Millennium.

Best thing was, he was doing his own shopping on the bus up until the age of 105 or so, when his site went. Even then his memory was 100%, and he was able to direct us round the country roads of Kent after we got lost on a family drive.

When he was born, everywhere was gas lit, and he ended up being interviewed for a website. That's quite a range.

My Great Grandfather lived to 108, and remembered seeing Queen Victoria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/576726.stm was a story on him around the time of the Millennium.

Best thing was, he was doing his own shopping on the bus up until the age of 105 or so, when his site went. Even then his memory was 100%, and he was able to direct us round the country roads of Kent after we got lost on a family drive.

When he was born, everywhere was gas lit, and he ended up being interviewed for a website. That's quite a range.

My Great Grandfather lived to 108, and remembered seeing Queen Victoria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/576726.stm was a story on him around the time of the Millennium.

Best thing was, he was doing his own shopping on the bus up until the age of 105 or so, when his site went. Even then his memory was 100%, and he was able to direct us round the country roads of Kent after we got lost on a family drive.

When he was born, everywhere was gas lit, and he ended up being interviewed for a website. That's quite a range.

Um... What day is it?