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Prisoner mails himself home

Cian — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:17:57 +0000

A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail.

The 42-year-old Turkish citizen – who was serving a seven-year sentence – had been making stationery with other prisoners destined for the shops.

At the end of his shift, the inmate climbed into a cardboard box and was taken out of prison by express courier. His whereabouts are still unknown.

The chief warden of the jail told the BBC this was an embarrassing incident.

The Economist’s Global Electoral College

Cian — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:56:50 +0000

Here’s another great new media project from The Economist. As the name suggests, it’s a global poll of support for candidates in the US presidential election, but based on the rather archaic electoral college system that still structures US elections. Thus, every country’s vote is weighted according to population, giving a total of 9,875 electoral college votes, including the ‘real’ 538 electoral college votes in the United States. Besides being a useful measure of global support for the two candidates, it’s the closest that some of us will get to being able to vote for Obama, so don’t miss your opportunity.

At the time I voted Obama was leading McCain by 7,779 global electoral college votes to 0.

Disaster

Cian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:53:38 +0000

Dear Ireland,

We’re sorry, but full episodes of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report are not available.

In the words of a good friend of mine, what a load of cock.

Who’s on Twitter?

Cian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:29:26 +0000

I can be found here.

Post your account in the comments if you have one.