Pottered out

Royal Worcester in administration
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened earlier, considering the sitation in my hometown (which is the German equivalent of Stoke and has been firmly in the hands of Wedgwood for over 10 years).

In the interest of science

Go here and add "Oblate Spheroid Enthusiasts" to your interests. Blame ginasketch ;o)

Background: from a post by ginasketch:

"I bought Dry Store Room No. 1 the history of the Natural History Museum
  by Richard Fortey this weekend, and in it Fortey writes:

  "I understand there is now a Creation Museum in Kentucky. Its own
  creators no doubt regard it as a "balance" to all those pesky
  "evolutionary" museums.

  It is interesting that the embodiment of respectability for an idea is
  still a museum, as if a Museum of Falsehoods were a theoretical
  impossibility. I look forward to the Museum of the Flat Earth, as a
  counterbalance to all those oblate spheroid enthusiasts."

First Dog?

Other than choosing his staff, Obama is apparently also looking for a pet.

From the article:

"Can you imagine the dog jumping on Putin, or lifting his leg and peeing on the curtains, or nipping at Gordon Brown?" she says.
"We don't want that to happen, so the dog has to be very well mannered.

Yes, yes we do, especially the last bit. ;oÞ