Fantasy character poll results

Thief: The Gray Mouser
Fighter: Aragorn
Dragon: Smaug


We need a third round of voting since none of the wizards has secured an overall majority (ooh, it's just like 'The Borgias'...)

And we'll have a second round in the anti-hero poll too.

Anti-hero poll second round

[Poll #1778534]

Wizard poll: third and final round

[Poll #1778536]

Phligm Phlagm

An economist explains the British personal tax system in words that the average bloke in the Dog & Duck should understand...

Something to show your boss next time he asks you to work lots of overtime (I wish...)

The half-life of shared links

Should the state step in to stop people saying nasty things online?

How an auditor's trick could have caught out the Greek government's fraudulent accounting

XKCD on opportunity cost

This seems such an obvious idea, why has nobody thought of it before?

Good news: The global population of Sumatran tigers has increased by 1%. Bad news: that's just three tigers.

'We Bought a Zoo'

This upcoming film by Cameron Crowe and starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson is based on the true story of a bloke called Benjamin Mee who bought our local zoo (Dartmoor Zoo, just outside Plymouth). We asked him to come along to the You're Hired! final to be our guest speaker, and he was brilliant. (Unfortunately I missed most of his talk because the guest speaker is basically there to occupy the contestants while the judges are deciding on the winners. I did speak to him later, and he's keen to get involved more in this year's competition. We're even thinking of holding the final there next summer.