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Reason #9412 that I love New Zealand. Let’s say you’re a city and you’ve got a mall district where troublesome kids are spending too much time, now if you’re an American city you might decide to fill up that space with cops, if you’re British you might decide to load it up with CCTV cameras and devices that emit high pitched noises, if you’re Japanese, well you probably don’t have those problems. But, if you’re Christchurch in New Zealand you decide the best way to deal with this is to start adding Barry Manilow to your broadcast musical mix. (via) Yup, that should either calm them down or send them elsewhere. Come on, how much do you love that country??

In other country love, Iceland. I mean, I’ve wanted to go there for years now, but it’s always been too expensive, maybe not so much right now. But I digress… So, A company wanted to build a smelting plant in Iceland, but came across a peculiar problem. (via) Maybe never before had by another company.

Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free but, as he put it, “we couldn’t as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people.”

Whaaa? I love that so much, I don’t have words for it. Although, I guess it’s probably had the problem before given that there was a governmental elf inspector…

Ah well, and now a lovely little flash game to spend your idle minutes this lovely friday. Touch the Bubbles! (via) Ignore that wierd tv ad in the beginning, but then it’s sort of like simon, in that it plays a series of tones that you have to remember. Then there’s a ton of bubbles in a spiral that each play a note and you have to recreate the melody. And then you get a rocking version of it in between levels! It’s pretty simple, but fun. Give it a whirl.