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The day after the UK election from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

Portugal-based British illustrator Lucy Pepper sums it all up perfectly.

Check out her blog too.

This morning I was looking for a website to live track a flight my daughter was taking from London to Zurich.

However, finding live tracking that covered EU air routes was not as easy as I imagined. The US is well covered, but the EU? Not so much.

After much searching around I eventually discovered FlightStats, which offers just what I was looking for; live mapping, flight status, arrival, departure and delay times, and even free email alerts.

All in all, a very useful tool for EU flight tracking. Recommended.

Yves Rossy did not make it from Morocco to Spain this afternoon.

That’s too bad, but happily he seems to be uninjured by his splash-landing and he will, I hope, make it across on his next attempt.

Until then, I tip my hat to his courage. Bravo.

I just spotted a witty remark in the comments of an article titled ‘Would Europe back President Blair?’ on the UK Guardian’s comment is free section. It genuinely made me laugh out loud, and I think it needs sharing, so here it is;

Question: Would Europe back President Blair?

Answer: Preferably off a cliff, at the point of a bayonet.

Well said that man/woman.

There’s a curious news situation going on here in Europe today.

All of the news sources of any significance, including the BBC, are running headline near-saturation coverage on the death of Edward Kennedy in the United States.

Yet, aside from some Irish, I have not met or heard of one single European today who cares, other than perhaps in a kind of “An old guy died? That’s a shame, but it happens…” way. That’s the way I feel too. Sure we have heard of his name, but that’s really all.

The European press have clearly now realised this as they are starting to try to make us think that we should care, but we still don’t as the best they can do is stuff like this;

Anchor; “So tell us why he was such an important figure”.

American being interviewed: “Well, he was extremely important, he was family of JFK, for example, and he was almost like a president himself”.

That’s just not going to do it for Europeans. We don’t know the guy, and never did.

So, maybe we can have some other news now that doesn’t assume that we are all Americans? Because we’re not, you know.