on Underwear Sales, Supreme Court and Winston the Pigeon

Here’s a little distraction from news from other places.

There’s an article from New York Times on the economy – by looking at non-conventional indicators – like gardening and beer sales and stuff. Alan Greenspan apparently started looking at underwear sales as an economic indicator in the 70s. You never know with economist, do you?

From the UK, they now have a Supreme Court to replace the Law Lords – moving the highest court away from the Parliament. As the BBC says, “The change brings the UK into line with many other countries around the world.“

Last, from South Africa – this is my fave headline this month – Winston the Pigeon raced (and won) against an ADSL provider to carry a 4GB worth of data for 60 miles. It took Winston two hours to do it, while the South African Telkom managed only 4% of the data. Here’s from the BBC and this is Winston’s Facebook page.