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Libraries to start lending money

From Newsbiscuit

In its latest bid to kick-start the nation’s ailing economy, the government has announced that public libraries will extend their current range of services to include the lending of money. From today, customers borrowing books will also be able to take out financial loans for a period of three weeks, though it may be possible to renew the terms of these agreements provided no other customer is waiting to borrow the cash.

[From Libraries to start lending money]

Putting the elephant in the room back on its feet

I am sure I would be inarticulate and verbally maladroit if interviewed on the Today programme.I hope though I would not mix my metaphors to the extent that the interviewee did just now, discussing failed and failing states, and speaking of the need to put the 'elephant in the room back on its feet'. Poor elephant!

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April Fools

There's much on Google's batch of April Fools: see a nearly complete list at Google Blogoscoped, though they forgot one I found, Google's new blogging platform, Google Weblogs: 'Unsure of what to post about? Just click “I’m Feeling Lucky” and we’ll “take care” of the rest!'

My favourite, however, was the announcement at Archaeoastronomy that a team of Danish alphabetologists, led by Professor Olaf Proil, have discovered the missing 27th letter of the English alphabet