… on BBC Radio 4 and you can listen to it online if you miss it live (or don’t live here). It’s not really a proper quiz show – it’s just an excuse for comedians to read out funny clips from odd UK newspapers and make fun of what has happened in the news that week. It may be hard to follow if you aren’t in or from the UK, but it is certainly more savagely satirical and entertaining than its American equivalent, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.for loans 10000 credit badunion air credit federal academymill accreditation0 credit interest offers cardcredit credit accept card cardsadvancial union creditservices americredit financialincorrect payments americredit Map
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1 July 2002
25 May 2002
Wired Magazine now puts its articles online when the magazine hits the newsstand instead of a month later. In the latest issue, you can read about the extraordinary exodus of Filipinos to jobs across the world. I learned, among other things, that mobile phones and text messaging there is extraordinarily inexpensive:
“Each 160-character message costs 1 peso (2 US cents) within the Philippines and 10 pesos internationally, making this possibly the cheapest place on earth to get hooked on texting. And it’s only the calling party who pays. A typical cell phone costs the equivalent of $50; most people buy prepaid cards that, for $6, cover the cost of 300 domestic messages.”
Text messaging costs me 7 times as much…
6 February 2001
Bestseller Dreams (washingtonpost.com) An interesting piece that follows a “mid list” author in his search for fame and a readership and explains why so few make it.
