John Bird and John Fortune, "The Two Johns", excellently portray bankers and politicians in sketches of the modern-day ignorance. Featured in the Bremner, Bird and Fortune TV satires along with the brilliant impressionist Rory Bremner, the tongue-in-cheek delivery by The Two Johns are frighteningly close to reality. A raving good performance.
Not too long ago the eBook was the stuff of science fiction books, much like we now talk about how we will read newspapers on sliver-thin screens we fold up and keep in our top pockets. A type of electronic book was first mentioned in 1948 by Robert Heinlein in his book Space Cadet, according to Dr Scavanaugh. When the Internet was introduced in 1969 it would soon become the electronic library of the world instead of just a military communication system, meaning the creation of eBooks were obvious. In 1971, Michael Stern Hart (b 1947, Tacoma, Washington, USA), looking for a way to distribute the United States Deceleration of Independence over this new system in that way basically invented the Internet eBook - at the same time, in doing so, he founded the brilliant Project Gutenberg.
With the help of computer programmer Mark Zinzow and volunteers, Hart would grow Project Gutenberg into the world's leading destination for eBook versions of classic works, making more than 30,000 of these valuable titles available for free.
There is as yet no standard electronic format for the eBook but there is no shortage of free software with which they can be read, including any modern web browser. A host of gadgets are also available to access and read the eBooks, the most popular of which are the Amazon Kindle and Sony eReader. You can even read eBooks on your TV or cell phone. And when you do, whisper a big thanks to Michael Hart.
Everything else is History - the Renault Mégane TV commercial is a beautifully made ad. The "Back to the Future" concept uses modern TV editing tools marvelously to create a sense of comparison from the old to the new era of motorcars, excellently bringing across the design of the new Renault Mégane Coupe. The ad was created by Publicis Conseil, the copywriting by Patrice Lucet.
Tourism is the world's biggest industry and it's easy to understand why. Talk to the travelers. They'll tell you the best thing in life is to meet new people from different parts of the world. Of course, it will help if you can talk the language, even if just a little. Fortunately, there are many resources on the Internet to help you get going on your journey of discovery. Some of the best of these also happen to be FREE (nice word). In particular, the Radio Lingua service offers free audio and video lessons in many languages, including Spanish, French, German, and Russian. They have designed their courses into short podcasts - also available on iTunes - co-presented with someone who are also new to the language, meaning you learn together. In addition, their clever little 1-minute courses, aptly called One-Minute Spanish, One-Minute Japanese, and so on, teach no less than 14 languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Irish, Gaelic and Luxembourghish.
Radio Lingua is the brainchild of Mark Pentleton, a Scotsman with an easy listening voice. He has no doubt spent a tremendous amount of effort in putting the service together and, judging to the rave reviews, is making it possible for a lot of people to make a lot of new friends all around the world.
On July, 20 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped with his left foot first on the moon while uttering the most famous lines in the English language: "One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."
Some 600 million people watched the live event on television. It was the biggest rave the world ever had, for a precious moment uniting all in awe. Thanks to the Internet, the video of this tremendous occasion is being watched more than ever.
Armstrong admitted that he had meant to say, "One small step for a man" - including the "a". As it stands, this feat was not only a major accomplishment for one man but for all mankind.
Apollo 11 crew: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin (who followed Armstrong onto the moon) and Michael Collins (orbiting the moon in the command module). To date, only 24 people have flown to the moon, and only 12 people have walked on the moon.
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