Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Looking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred:
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Telegraph, UK - Local authorities have ordered employees to stop using the words and phrases on documents and when communicating with members of the public and to rely on wordier alternatives instead. The ban has infuriated classical scholars who ...
Brian Taylor blogs on the end of the SNP's honeymoon (BBC News)
No more glad, confident morning. (Labour, of course, would deploy the word "arrogant" instead of "confident.") This is a substantial setback for Alex Salmond.
Microsoft and Apple fight it out in Birmingham UK (Macworld UK)
Microsoft is taking the Windows vs. Mac fight to new levels, by placing its own kiosk directly outside the Apple at the Bullring shopping mall in Birmingham.
Air New Zealand Coming Closer To Biofuel Test Flight (The Aero-News Network)
Jatropha-Based Fuel Arrives At Rolls-Royce Facility The world's first commercial aviation flight powered by a sustainable second-generation biofuel moved a step closer this week. The jatropha-based fuel to power one of four engines on the Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 arrived at the Rolls-Royce facility in Derby, UK, for testing prior to the flight.
The week that was: October 27-31 (Stuff)
GUILTY: Liam James Reid has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the rape and murder of Christchurch woman Emma Agnew and the brutal rape of another woman.