“Vettel did not even know he had won the title until after he had taken the chequered flag. “To be honest I did not know anything. I wondered. In the last 10 laps my engineer Rocky [Guillaume Rocquelin] was giving me advice to help me get the car home. I wondered why he was so nervous. I thought we must be in a good position, then he said ‘it’s looking good’, I didn’t know what he meant. I just focused on myself and they came on the radio and screamed that we have won the world championship.”
Red Bull keep Sebastian Vettel in the dark until the title is his | Sport | The Guardian
A life…
If Facebook was cool they’d release a tool that lets you do this on the site.
Where are the media tools for Facebook? Make a video of your night out with friends and share it?
Free at last…
BBC News – The moment Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest.
Please let this go as well as this…
The world needs a second Mandela.
I love the South-West…
Democratic and Republican tax plans…
Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans
I wonder how many people understand this even if it’s a picture.
Game Over…
Note who built this. Ouch!
“2 November: Saudi Arabian men ride on the newly-opened holy sites metro light rail in Mecca. The Chinese-built monorail project, will link Mecca with the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah, and will operate for the first time during the hajj this month”
The annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca | Travel | guardian.co.uk.
UK or FIFA…
“Britain should have no truck with a body like Fifa, any more than it should with the International Olympic Committee or those who run much of international sport. Five minutes spent with the cuttings, or trawling such websites as playthegame and transparencyinsport, should have stopped Cameron being photographed shaking hands with Blatter at Downing Street. His staff should have read Andrew Jennings’ Foul! on Blatter, and thrown in Christopher Shaw’s Five Ring Circus, about the IOC, for good measure.”
This is wrong headed.
FIFA and the IOC are now perfect images of the UK. After all your not telling me that the FA is run better; with a manager and player earning millions and winning nothing. Just look at the Wembley fiasco.
He should also explain how an organization as currupt as the IOC managed to give the games to London. It wasn’t that London had the best bid.
Of course, the difference for Jenkins is that they are elites that he didn’t go to school with and therefore can’t be trusted.
Where’s Alfred?
35,000 people get this…
Over 35,000 people go to the time to sign a petition about copyright.
What does HM Government do? Give a nonsense response like this…
“It is clear that online copyright infringement inflicts considerable damage on the UK’s creative economy including music, TV and film, games, sports and software. Industry estimates place this harm at £400m pa.
The Digital Economy Act includes a number of measures to tackle the problem and we expect these to be successful in significantly reducing online copyright infringement. However this is an area of rapid technological change and developing consumer behaviour. The Act therefore includes a reserve power to introduce further “technical” measures if the initial measures do not succeed. These technical measures would limit or restrict an infringers’ access to the internet. They do not include disconnection.”
Kinect Entertainment…
For the first time in years I’m impressed by something from Microsoft. Seriously good stuff.