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This adidas ad was spotted a few weeks ago by Martin Spencer in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Colin Dixon thinks he's made the trip from London to Waiheke in record time: "My flight from London to Auckland arrived dead on time at 0520. I disembarked, went to Duty Free and because my Eftpos card was out of date, I had to cash a cheque at the BNZ. On to immigration, then the carousel, through customs and then to MAF. Out of the terminal to a Shore Shuttles pick up and off to downtown Auckland where I caught the 0630 ferry to Waiheke! Amazing."
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Bushmen in Africa's Kalahari Desert are being equipped with handheld Palm Pilot personal digital assistants to track animals and locate plants via special software. A Global Positioning Satellite will record the location when the hunters tap screen icons representing various animals to register their location, numbers and activities. reports Discovery.com.
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For more than a century, the Keighley family's butcher shop has supplied Bradford with choice cuts of meat. But its days may be numbered after the shop's neighbours complained that the meat is being chopped too loudly. Simon Keighley starts work at 5.30am as he needs at least two hours to prepare the meat for the day's first deliveries to restaurants at 7.30am. However, Bradford Council has told him the noise from the chopping is a "sound nuisance" which is waking the neighbours. Officials told him he can only start chopping at 8am - and he must finish by 6pm. (Source: Daily Mail)
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After trying to fill in her Vodafone customer profile online, Justine found out that the website doesn't recognise Hamilton as a town. "I couldn't move on to the next section until my address was filled in, she says. "When I asked the customer service girl on the phone what I should do she said just to enter Auckland as my town, which it recognised. The girl mentioned that the address was needed more for security. She failed to see that people from Hamilton may take exception at having to list their address as Auckland."
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A 65-year-old US woman was not allowed to buy wine in a Maine supermarket because she had no identification to prove her age. Barbara Skapa said she normally carries her driver's licence, but with her leg in a cast, a friend drove her to town. The cashier told her it was policy to check for identification. Skapa's friend could not buy the wine because it was considered "third-party" purchasing.
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Doh! The Michael Jackson lookalike published in Saturday's Sideswipe was Faye Dunaway playing Joan Crawford in the film Mommie Dearest (1977). Not Ms Crawford herself.
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Today's Video Webpick:What people are prepared to do in the name of APEC security. (From the wags at Chasers War on Everything). Watch it here. Scroll down.
These are the very best online videos from Ana's online magazine Spare Room.
