Some amusing news from Comscore.com reveals what Blues knew all along: most Liverpool Football Club fans are not from Liverpool. According to Comscore: Out of all U.K. visitors to Evertonfc.com, 46.8 percent come from the North West, compared to just 16.8 percent of all U.K. visitors to Liverpoolfc.tv!
University of Liverpool mulls politics, philosophy, statistics department closures
I’ve only just found about the University of Liverpool’s plans to close its politics, philosophy, statistics departments – apparently because it can’t be bothered with them any more. Several other departments also seem to be threatened. While other universities are considering closing departments because of a de facto budget cut Liverpool is not and, reports [...]
Play Liverpool-based Flash games
As someone who works as an online editor, I’ve become a huge fan of embeddable Flash games, not because they’re any cop but because they’re such as a good, cheap, easy source of evergreen copy that’s inevitably popular.
In that spirit I though I’d round up all the games on the web that relate to Liverpool. Inevitably the ones I’ve been able to find tend to relate to Liverpool Football Club efforts, but there’s a nifty little racer in here too.
Although I don’t have a lot of time for footy sims, Champions League Liverpool Milan is actually pretty decent for a Flash game.
And, by a curious quirk of fate, the Streets of Liverpool against-the-clock racer may be geographically inaccurate, but it starts at finishes at the former offices or Ripple Effect – Number One Hnrey Street – which ahppens to be where I currently work.
Liverpool Rocks Fashion: Fur Q
Top marks to Liverpool.com in its diatribe about Liverpool Rocks Fashion and its pathetic use and defence of fur. And full marks to the organiser, a Ms Donna McCourt, who apparently defended the appearance of fur garments by claiming it is a ‘woman’s right to choose’ to wear fur, thereby (perhaps unwittingly) conflating the issue [...]
Scouse humour: Redux – via Bernard Hogan-Howe
Full credit to Bernard Hogan-Howe in his ‘not me, guv’ response to sleepy old fossil Alexander Chancellor’s article on the ‘Mersey Tunnel man arrested for laughing’ story that did the rounds last week.
Liverpool: Now improving well
Liverpool CC has received two stars out of four from the Audit Commission for 2008, along with the judgment that as a council it is ‘improving well’. While this rating still leaves LCC in the bottom 20 per cent of the UK’s councils, it’s a distinct improvement on the slamming it received last year.
Korova in The Guardian
There’s a bit of a puff piece on Korova in The Guardian today that hits the nail on the head about Korova in that it ignored the jingly-jangly stoned cosmic scouse thing that was all the rage in Liverpool a few years ago,