That's How It Happened

Richard Branson landed in Sydney yesterday to promote the new Virgin route to Australia. In true "Arthur Fortune" style, he arrived wearing board shorts, carrying a surfboard. This rather got my hackles up, since typically airlines charge extortionate rates for carrying surfboards. The Virgin website is rather vague about the costs involved, so I went to the trouble of ringing them, to see how much Sir Richard would have been charged for his promotional surfboard.
The delightfully suprising answer, is that there are no automatic excess charges for surfboards under 109 inches. If your luggage in total weighs in at over 20kg, you get charged a rather reasonable £29 per kg, but there are no specific costs for normal short boards. Unless you are some kind of retro surf freak, with a mania for monster guns, you can ride for free.

Simpsons Millionaire, a short flash game.

Top of my christmas list is a bamboo surfboard. Beautiful, and eco-friendly.

Japan gets the awesome i-foot, we get the comical G-Wiz. (Though to be completely fair to electric cars, I do actually like the doomed Ford Think!)

LEGO grandfather clock that actually keeps time.