Travellers in New Mexico may think they’re losing their marbles when they visit the rest rooms of bars and restaurants. They’re not: the urinals really are talking.
Drink-driving is such a problem that the state has had to resort to ever more creative measures, according to The Economist. Among them are the urinals, which contain [...]

I returned from holiday to the office yesterday to find screenfuls of emails, a desk buried under post, most of my colleagues out of the office — and a report in The New York Times about the dangers of “multitasking”.
I knew all about the last already. I phoned an executive in our advertising department recently. [...]

A headline from The New York Times yesterday, on a story about reform of the House of Lords, says much about the way Americans view our system of governance:
Commons Moves to Erode Nobles’ Power in Britain.

Journalism used to be a great job but for the paperwork. Now, on top of that, we have audio, video, photos, slideshows, blogs, wikis and web pages. If we’re to attend to them all, we’ve got to be more efficient. Peter Wilby, in today’s Media Guardian, has a useful suggestion: avoid reading crackpot conspiracy stories [...]