Web Monitor
16:11 UK time, Wednesday, 13 May 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
We trawl the web to give you the most interesting bits. Make sure you share your best links with us by either sending us a comment via the box to the right of this page or recommending it to us on - we're called "bbcwebmonitor".
• The chef row on the Daily Politics. After referring to MPs as big kids who need boundaries, he suggested they live in dorms:
"Let's house them in a magnificent block of flats, give them a gym, give them a swimming pool, treat them royally but they won't own it and there's no expenses."
• Well well, it turns out in a recession . It's called denomination effect and happens because we trick ourselves into thinking we are spending less if they only spend coins.
• Atlantic magazine reveals that in the longest ever study into what makes us happy. The findings from other cases are released anonymously but JFK's files will be sealed until 2040.
• to a winning horse.
Not really, it seems. They reckon a jockey is only 10% responsible for their horse winning and have no power over really bad horses.
• Singer Gwen Stefani is starting a tour with old band No Doubt this weekend. music blog how she had managed to persuade the band to wait for her for five years:
"This is what I told the guys: The plan was I wanted to do the dance record, go on the tour, come home and get pregnant - since I'm a pro at it now because I did it before.. It didn't work... I don't know how other women feel, but I lose connection with myself because my body becomes this other vessel for this other human... I was feeling not very modern, not very creative."
• So Marks and Spencer has given into consumer demand and reduced the cost of their bigger bras. Meanwhile in Japan... the has been designed to deal with the declining rates of marriage in the country. The bra has a timer on it which is set as a countdown until the wearers' preferred wedding date. So now when a man's eyes wander, he can protest that he had the best intentions.
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