Web Monitor
16:39 UK time, Monday, 15 June 2009
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• Paul O'Grady who owns the production company that makes his telly show that he is happy to take a pay cut as long as it means he and his staff keep working:
"I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job."
• that we may be seeing the end of the traditionally organised school reunion, thanks to Facebook, Twitter etc. This doesn't mean they are stopping, just that alumni organisations are being made redundant as people find their old friends by themselves and according to Time Magazine, seeing which one of your friends got fat in a photo doesn't stop people wanting to see it in the flesh as well.
• , Monkey See, that she was dismayed to find that Pixar's newest film Up does not have a female lead character. This means that apart from Up's princess sidekick, not one of Pixar's 10 films has had a female lead character. The points out that this debate has been rumbling for some time, pointing towards the sociology blog They chart the main characters in Pixar films so far, expressing most disbelief at the gender of the characters in the film A Bug's Life:
"...which not only is the main character male, the actual behaviours of male and female ants have been switched to fit in with our ideas of appropriate gender roles."
• the possible next leader of North Korea - Kim Jong-un. It's no mean feat given that virtually nothing is known about him. There is thought to be only one photo of Kim Jon-un outside North Korea, from the memoir of his Japanese sushi chef, Mr Fujimoto. It shows Kim Jong-un when he was 11.
• that not one but two invisibility cloak have been invented. They work by deflecting light and in the short term they could be usd for concentrating sunlight. The magazine says that one day, they could indeed be used to make things seem to disappear.
• , the daily news in rap form reached the heady heights Web Monitor hoped to report, despite Paper Monitor's efforts to rhyme the news. But informative rap is still around. After her YouTube hit , the that scientist Kate McAlpine is back on YouTube, this time , again in rap form based on her work at the planned Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
If you think McAlpine proves that a geek can't pull off a rap with panache, then try out who writes poetically about website design coding. No, really.
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