ABBA Museum

Laura | November 28, 2006

A museum, dedicated to the music sensation ABBA, is to be opened in Stockholm [news.bbc.co.uk]. How fantastic would this be?! It does seem rather woolly for a museum idea but it is somewhere that I would go. What ABBA fan could resist the wonderfully outrageous outfits that Agnetha and Frida wore? [...]

Goodbye English Language

Laura | November 11, 2006

While searching other communities that I like, I came across this article from Slashdot [slashdot.org]. It is stating that New Zealand is allowing “text speak” on exams. Apparently, the NZ Qualification Authority is ‘confident that those grading papers will understand the meaning of students’ responses, even if they use phone/IM-style text-speak.’
What a load [...]