https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/ The Magazine's recommended daily allowance of news, culture and your letters. en Copyright 2010 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:42:13 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Is that Sam from EastEnders?" - Question posed by multiple callers to Lisa Edwards, whose mobile number was inadvertantly ascribed to Sam Mitchell in EastEnders Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has upheld a complaint against the BBC by Lisa Edwards, after her business mobile phone number appeared on screen for four seconds in an episode of the BBC One soap last year. The number appeared on Ricky Butcher's mobile when his ex-wife Sam was calling. The mistake, which the BBC admitted, led to some obscene calls and nearly 3,000 unwanted text messages. The BBC said the number of calls and messages may have been inflated after the Sun published a story about the incident only to display the number again in a screen grab published in the paper. More details (the Guardian) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/tues.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/04/tues.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:42:13 +0000 For those who have landed here from Wednesday's Daily Mini-Quiz, this is your reward - a picture of pineberries. They look like a white strawberry but taste like a pineapple. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_288.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_288.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:55:14 +0000 For those who found their way here from the Daily Mini-Quiz, here is the innovative pink cricket ball in action at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_287.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_287.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:14:27 +0000 For those led here from Tuesday's Daily Mini-Quiz, here's Emma Thompson with her false tooth, and with her real smile restored. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_286.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2010/03/daily_miniquiz_286.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:08:31 +0000 SPOILER ALERT For those led here by Friday's mini-question, here are the somewhat worrying pictures of not one but three surrogate dogs nursing abandoned baby animals in China. Left is the dog with the lion cubs - who frankly looks a little worried - middle is the dog with red pandas, and right is another dog with tiger cubs. Using female dogs as surrogate mothers for baby tigers and lions, bear cubs and other newborn animals is a common practice in Chinese zoos. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/07/daily_miniquiz_285.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/07/daily_miniquiz_285.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:45:11 +0000 SPOILER ALERT For those led here by Wednesday's mini-question, here are stills from Air New Zealand's pre-flight safety video. Instead of uniforms, four crew members stripped and instead wore body paint. The national airline devised this as a way of encouraging jaded passengers to actually pay attention to instructions on seatbelts, luggage stowage and oxygen masks. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/07/daily_miniquiz_284.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/07/daily_miniquiz_284.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:53:51 +0000 For those led here by Wednesday's daily mini-question on the Magazine, here's Prince Charles putting his back into it. But the Prince of Wales did not gain these scrapes on his fingers from lugging bricks on the eco-friendly construction project. The Daily Telegraph reports that these are in fact gardening injuries. 'Tis the season, after all. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/05/daily_miniquiz_283.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/05/daily_miniquiz_283.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Wed, 20 May 2009 10:16:28 +0000 For those led here by Monday's Daily Mini-Quiz, here is the new England football kit. Among the claims of manufacturer Umbro, it has "intelligent ventilation" and a cut designed to "accommodate the biodynamics of the shoulder." It's also got a collar that can't be turned up, a la Eric Cantona. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_282.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_282.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:27 +0000 Apologies for the technical problems in displaying the answers to today's Daily Mini-Quiz. We're glad to say it's back up and running again. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_281.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_281.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:44:21 +0000 For those who landed here from Tuesday's Daily Mini-Quiz, here's the unedited picture - a family snapshot from 1987 taken at a castle wall, allegedly featuring a headless ghost on the right. Organisers of the Edinburgh Science Festival are inviting members of the public to send spooky snapshots of alleged ghosts. (For those who didn't arrive here from the Daily Mini-Quiz - next time, play by the rules.) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_280.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/03/daily_miniquiz_280.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:46:35 +0000 For those led here by today's mini-question, here is Jack Straw leaving an iced-up Downing St, all rugged up against the cold. At least he had good traction with those boots. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/02/daily_miniquiz_279.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2009/02/daily_miniquiz_279.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:58:40 +0000 For those directed here by the Daily Mini-Quiz, this is the actor robot Momoko in action on stage in Osaka. The play - Hataraku Watashi (I, Worker) - is about a young couple who own two housekeeping robots, one of which loses its motivation to work. More details https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/11/daily_miniquiz_278.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/11/daily_miniquiz_278.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:10:51 +0000 In today's Daily Mini-Quiz we asked you the height difference between Bernie Ecclestone and his wife Slavica. She is filing for divorce after being married to the Formula One boss for 24 years. The answer is 10 inches - she is 6ft 2in and he is 5ft 4in. This made it rather difficult for us to squeeze both their heads into the mini-quiz picture. But we knew you'd want to feast your eyes, so here it is in all its glory. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/11/daily_miniquiz_277.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/11/daily_miniquiz_277.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:27:08 +0000 Well done if you correctly identified Estelle's teeth in today's DMQ. Here's the full picture of the British singer with one of her two Mobos. She denied that her record company had forced her to have the dental work, as she tries to break the American market. The difference between American and British teeth has been considered in these pages before. And Estelle is by no means the first to put up with a bit of oral discomfort for the sake of looking good. Tom Cruise, Gwen Stefani and Naomi Campbell are other famous names to, how can we say, grit their teeth and bear it? https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/10/daily_miniquiz_276.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/10/daily_miniquiz_276.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:01:41 +0000 For those led here by Thursday's Daily Mini-Quiz, here's one-time punk John Lydon starring in an advert for Country Life butter. https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/10/daily_mini_quiz.shtml https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/10/daily_mini_quiz.shtml Daily Mini-Quiz Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:05:04 +0000