The BBC is reporting that Disney, after more than a decade of negotiations, has finally got the go ahead from the Beijing government to buy land in Shanghai for a Disneyland. Wonder if they’ll cave on smoking like they did in Hong Kong.

So, my Dad and Mum came over for a visit recently and we got talking about Wikipedia. They’d never looked at it before so I pulled it up at the page for Cleethorpes (where they live) and I was scrolling through it showing them the page when my Dad’s name leapt out at me. Wow. Fame at last. He’s web famous for helping Cleethorpes win a gold award in the RHS’s Britain in Bloom competition. Proud son.

The below with apologies to Paul Simon…

Today I am forty two. Tomorrow I’m… ?

Brilliant a cappella rendition of You’re Gonna Miss Me with only hand claps and empty soup pots as accompaniment. Embbed from YouTube below.

All the episodes of “Design for Life”, the BBC’s version of Britain’s Got Talent/Dragon’s Den for designers, are now on Vimeo. Handy for those of us whose eyeball geography does not meet with the beeb’s approval. Links below.

A quite brilliant CS Research Topic Generator from Purdue. Includes a literature search for the generated topic.